REBEL ROUNDUP dives into Mark Carney’s controversial March 23rd election call, his $5+ ad influence, and unaddressed conflicts—like his pipeline opposition while profiting from Middle Eastern energy deals. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defies federal overreach with expanded security laws, vowing to double oil production despite Trudeau’s $176B canceled investments and retaliatory tariffs on canola, pork, and seafood. Meanwhile, China’s $3.7B tariff on Canadian goods and execution of four dual citizens raises fears of political leverage, while Alberta Tesla owners mock environmentalist hypocrisy. Tommy Robinson’s worsening PTSD in UK solitary confinement sparks outrage as his lawyers clash with officials over treatment, exposing global free speech battles. Carney’s election could hand Trump trade leverage via Brookfield’s U.S. assets, underscoring Canada’s fractured political and economic landscape. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tamara, how's it going?
Oh, pretty good.
Thanks, Sheila.
You know, Colbert, it is still beautiful, but it used to be a lot better before the radical ideological priorities of our liberal government have plagued the downtown core with rampant open-air drug use and homelessness.
And of course, throughout the COVID era, the closing of our renowned public beach, the Coburg Beach, which people travel from afar to visit throughout the tourist season.
But yes, Colberg, I hope, can still be restored to the beauty that it once was prior to the destructive policies of the liberal government, which I guess, Sheila, we're going to see hopefully sooner rather than later.
But I guess before we get into that, there's a couple of things that we should probably share with the audience.
Yeah, we'll talk about maybe things will change on the political landscape here in Canada.
I've got to talk about the problem with a progressive mayor in Edmonton and what he's going to do now that there's a new sheriff in town called Mark Carney.
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Yeah, first and foremost this morning breaking is that sources close to Mark Carney, the prime minister designate, because he's never actually held an elected seat in our parliamentary system.
He is set to dissolve parliament and call an election ahead of a Sunday meeting with Governor General Mary Simon.
So this comes from sources cited by the Canadian state broadcaster, but I think the political pressure is so heavy and high on Mark Carney to do this that it's something that he probably just at this point cannot ignore.
So it said he'll meet with the Governor General this weekend to request Parliament be dissolved.
And then there will be a subsequent calling for the federal election.
And the campaign is slated to last between 36 and 50 days with voting taking place on either April 28th or May the 5th.
And so this actually comes just a day before Parliament was set to resume sitting, right?
Because Justin Trudeau, our outgoing and former now resigned, and I would say disgraced prime minister, resigned and prorogued parliament on January the 6th until March 24th.
So this meeting this Sunday will be March 23rd and Parliament was set to resume the following day, but I suppose it will not now and we will head right into an election.
Well, I think if I were Mark Carney, he's running out of options.
So they can't say, oh, things are too precarious with the Americans for us to be running an election campaign right now, considering it wasn't precarious enough for you guys to run a leadership election and also for it to not be the first thing that you did once you were sworn in as prime minister.
Mark Carney jetted off to Europe on a hello tour after Justin Trudeau just went through Europe on a goodbye tour.
He didn't go to Washington.
So he can't say like, oh, we can't, we couldn't possibly run an election.
We have things to deal with.
You just did.
So sorry, you can't do that.
And I think he's never going to be more popular than right now.
I think the more people get to know him and the more they see that he can't handle the press, even the friendly ones, like look inside yourself, Rosemary Barton.
The more people get to know him, the more they will realize that he is intensely dislikable from all sides.
You know, like the liberals liked Justin Trudeau because he was young and hip or whatever, even though he's not all that young.
They sort of, they liked that he was the popular kid.
And Carney's not that.
He's the undertaker.
He's just sucking the life out of you to listen to him.
And he can't handle even questions he should have had answers to about his personal financial interests.
Yeah, I think the liberals mistook Justin Trudeau's immaturity for being young and fun when really he was just an immature, egotistical child that could not hold his own on the political stage and wanted to dance and have fun instead of being a serious leader.
But I think too, as more people recognize and realize that Carney has been the guy in the ear of Justin Trudeau for the past few years, whether that be, you know, the lockdowns, the COVID-era restrictions and handouts that have caused in part some of the inflation that we're facing today, the tax hikes, the reckless spending, the electric vehicle mandates.
And we'll get into some more of the hypocrisy involving that shortly.
But as people become more aware that Carney isn't this outsider that he claims to be, and you know, and I think a lot of people really resonated that with them when he responded to Rosemary Barton with such a lack of decorum that people were like, oh, wait a second, who is this snake?
And I think, yeah, Carney has no choice now but to call an election.
Even, you know, Premier Danielle Smith has been relentless with, we need an election, we need an election, we need a federal government, they need a mandate.
And so he's undoubtedly hearing all of that.
Yeah, it's just a weird thing.
I mean, even how he responded to Rosemary Barton, look inside yourself, Rosemary, and how he did the weird thing with his hands.
I feel like he would have done the Justin Trudeau grabbing thing that he does when he deals with women, you know, like when he deals with women who are angry at him.
Justin Trudeau liked to put his hands on them to exert control on them.
That was this sort of creepy business.
And I feel like I'm, I so dislike Mark Carney and his demeanor that here I am finding myself defending of all people, of all people, Rosemary Barton.
It's it's the craziest thing.
And you're watching like the truanons completely turn on her, say that she's a conservative plant.
Like that's how far down the cult rabbit hole these people are.
For asking a super basic accountability question about conflicts of interest that are glaring and deserve to be scrutinized.
Yeah, let's keep going on the Mark Carney conflicts of interest business because they're just rubbing it in our faces at this point.
Evan Solomon, disgraced CBC host, who then went on to do radio, I think in the greater Toronto area, or maybe it was Ottawa.
I know because Chris Sims used to be a producer on his show, if I recall correctly.
She was inside the machine.
He says that he is going to run for the liberals in the next election.
Now, it's no surprise that a former CBC journalist is going to, and he was at CTV for a time, run for the liberals.
That's, I mean, Seamus O'Reagan, right?
Like, whatever, that's fine.
I'm surprised he wasn't in Justin Trudeau's bridal party or whatever you want to call it.
But here's the thing: Evan Solomon was fired after he was taking secret commissions on art deals while working as a journalist behind the scenes.
And one of those wealthy Canadians he dealt with that the commission was that got himself fired was Mark Carney.
And it was so secretive that no, one of the people that he sold art to didn't even realize that Evan Solomon was getting a commission on the sale.
And what made this in such a crazy conflict of interest is these are people that Evan Solomon was like covering as a journalist.
So among the people whom Solomon brokered the sale of paintings are Jim Basili, so he research in motion.
That's BlackBerry.
It's whatever it basically is gone.
And Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor and current governor of the Bank of England.
So he dealt with both men in his high-profile host jobs at the CBC.
Carney, who's also a friend, has been a guest on both of Solomon's shows.
So the conflicts of interest never end.
They just don't even care.
They're just rubbing it in our faces.
And claiming all the while to be outsiders when very clearly they are insiders in this very tight-knit little clique and everyday Canadians aren't part of it.
Well, what are like I read these stories and like, and I'm old enough to remember when that happened, right?
I've been in journalism a while now, but also politically active for a long time.
And I remember when that happened and I remember thinking, God, this is what we know.
What other shifty, incestuous dealings are happening behind the scenes that we don't know about?
And like, this is business dealings.
So do you think that Evan Solomon is a journalist at the CBC at the time is going to go hard on Jim Basili or Mark Carney as a journalist when he knows that his commission in an art deal sort of hinges on it?
Well, and likewise, Solomon, now think of all the connections he has within the state broadcaster, CTV, CBC, et cetera, et cetera.
Now he's running for a liberal as a liberal candidate.
And so what kind of accountability tough questions are his former colleagues and friends going to be asking of him, right?
So this is just, it's this musical chairs of CBC state broadcaster and political leaders, quote unquote, in Canada that it's just, it's never ending.
You can keep going down that rabbit hole, that spidey web that just kind of stretches out for forever.
Depending on how far back you go.
Yeah, like think about it this way.
Imagine I'm to make, I don't know, $40,000 off a business deal with Danielle Smith behind the scenes.
And I didn't tell you.
And then you're like, oh, Sheila's sure friendly with Danielle Smith these days in her journalism.
I wonder what's going on there.
But you don't know that I have a business deal behind the scenes worth $40,000 with her that I'm not telling to you.
Imagine how unethical that is.
This guy wants to be, and I bet he will be the next heritage minister if he wins his seat.
Yeah, well, I really hope not.
And I see that the liberals have the least seats of all the parties so far in various ridings, whereas the conservatives have, sorry, the most candidates, I should say, the most candidates slated for each riding.
And the conservatives, or sorry, the liberals are lagging very far behind trying to slate candidates in each of the ridings.
So we'll see what happens there, especially with only four days ahead of Sunday when the election is potentially going to be called.
Meanwhile, leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev, is incessantly calling on Carney to release his conflicts of interest and come clean and transparent with Canadians as a good ethical leader should.
Carney opposed pipelines in Canada while he invested in pipelines in the Middle East.
He supported a carbon tax on our Canadian industry and consumers, all while his company, Brookfield, invested in American coal.
And just six days after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canada, Mark Carney backed down and moved his company headquarters from Toronto to New York, bringing Canadian jobs to America.
He continues to have millions of dollars of interest, we now believe to be invested in Brookfield, that same company with which he claimed he had cut ties.
He admitted the other day in a stunning flip-flop that he has conflicts of interest that he will have to manage, but he won't tell us what those conflicts are.
He expects us to elect him without knowing the many millions of dollars of conflicts that will make it impossible for him to do his job, interests that go against the national interest.
And that is why today I'm calling on Mr. Carney to do the right thing and publish all of his financial holdings to everyone in Canada so that they can judge the conflicts he faces.
He knows what he owns, and there is nothing in the law that prevents him from publishing that information for all eyes to see if he has got nothing to hide.
We need a leader who's busy putting Canada first, not keeping an eye on investments that go against the Canadian interest.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, Carney keeps saying, and he said to Rosemary Barton, look, there's nothing, I am not required to do this.
Okay, fine.
You can weasel your way through a loophole to say that I'm not required to do this quite yet.
But shouldn't Canadians know what they're voting for?
Like we already don't know, although I think we can figure out some of them, the recipients of foreign interference that could be running as liberal candidates in the next election.
We are not going to be told that, even though apparently Mark Carney knows now, because he says, I got my security clearance.
So he knows.
And he's probably going to sign those nomination papers.
So he knows who those people are.
He's not going to tell us.
Why?
Because he's not required to.
Well, why don't you do it in the interest of transparency so that Canadians know what they're getting when they cast a ballot instead of just what they will let us know?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, and he doesn't want to have any accountability even from independent media.
And if we saw any indication how he responded to CBC's, what is she, the top political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, if we saw how he responded to her, imagine how he's going to respond to more tough questions from alternative and non-We're going to jail Tamara.
Well, we have this breaking scene here where Western Standard questioned Carney on his assets and potential conflicts of interest.
And I think this is a video here we have to share with how he responded.
Sure.
And I will let you know here before we roll this, James, James Snell is accredited with the press gallery at the Alberta legislature.
I don't know how he did it or what, or what, but he's accredited there.
Maybe he went through the speaker's office.
That's an exception that they allow in Alberta is if the legislature press gallery gets ganged up on you and has a witch trial, as they did with me, you can go around them and go directly through the speaker's office.
So maybe that's what happened here, but James is fully accredited at the legislature.
This question should be answered.
Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to Edmonton.
When are you going to reveal your assets to Canadians and talk about potential conflicts of interest?
We greatly appreciate it.
Zero respect.
Well, and again, he was never elected by anyone.
So I don't know why there is this expectation of accountability when, you know, you kind of were quite literally selected for the job.
Yeah, I mean, he's getting through.
Once again, he loves his loopholes.
So he's getting through this loophole, quirk of our parliamentary democracy, our constitutional parliamentary monarchy that we live under.
And it happened in Alberta once with Jim Prentiss.
Was elected as the leader of the PCs and the PCs were the like overwhelming governing party.
So it was less of an issue.
I mean, they did go to election right away, but he didn't go on these broad sweeping spending announcements and he tried to get a mandate from the people.
Unfortunately, it was the year that the NDP were elected.
But I mean, at the time, the PCs, they had a super majority in the legislature.
Local Media Access Blues00:03:59
So it was not like this precarious arrangement that the liberals have right now to hang on to power in a minority government with the NDP.
And then we have this unelected prime minister who's making all these crazy spending announcements around the world.
Anyway, I also understand why Mark Carney didn't want to have much to say because he probably just got his ass handed to him by Premier Smith.
But we'll get to that in a second.
But good on James, by the way.
Good for him.
Well, and because at the same time, we see, again, Pierre Polyev calling for open media access across the country.
And he even says in this clip that we'll share with you, that Mark Carney needs to answer about these millions of dollars of conflicts of interest.
We will have open media across the country.
Local media will have the ability to ask questions.
It will be refreshing to hear from local outlets on what they have to say about their local priorities.
And I would note that I'm asking, I'm answering a lot more questions from the media than Mr. Carney.
And I think he should open up in answering more questions himself, particularly about his many millions of dollars of conflicts of interest.
He admits now, I'm not accusing him of a conflict of interest.
He admits that he has conflicts of interest in his holdings.
He says that he's going to come up with a plan for that after the election.
That is unacceptable.
He should divulge all of his millions of dollars of holdings right now.
Yeah, I agree.
Well, and I see today the mainstream media journalists, including the crybabies over at Global News, I hope you're watching right now.
They're crying the blues because the conservatives are saying, well, we're not allowing media on the campaign bus.
Okay, I always actually kind of thought it was weird that they allowed media to travel with them.
Like if you're sharing campaign strategies and stuff, you probably don't want the liberal friendly enemies of the mainstream media in the bus with you.
And, you know, like the media companies do have to pay to be on the bus or whatever.
But like, it's a campaign bus.
They don't have to have you on.
You can get in a vehicle, get a rental car and follow the bus to the next stop.
Get on a plane, get a flight pass, get on a plane, go to the next place, you know, like everybody else does.
You're not entitled to have that close access to the campaign.
But it is interesting to hear them whining, sniveling, and crying about this while independent journalists are getting arrested in public for trying to access campaign events.
They didn't say anything about that while they were getting preferential treatment, by the way, and independent journalists were getting the cops called on them.
And now they're singing the blues because they don't get to, I don't know, sit on the conservative campaign bus and plane.
Give me an absolute break.
Polyev is saying, we're going to give all kinds of media access and probably preferential treatment to the locals, which I appreciate because all of this stuff is a local issue.
That's the way it should be.
When you land, when you hold a press conference, all the journalists come, they line up and they get to ask you questions.
They don't need to be on the bus.
Like, give me a break, you absolute snivelers.
I'd love to see some of them stand outside and wait for hours in the cold.
Oh, yeah.
The chance to like shout one question.
Do it one James question.
Yeah, exactly.
I'd love to see how they fare doing that sort of those sorts of gigs and also getting out there and covering a protest and maybe speaking to somebody who they don't necessarily agree with, but whose views are valuable and deserve to be heard on a more nationwide platform.
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Yeah.
I don't understand why people don't like them, but they never actually talk to the people.
Could be one.
Odd dynamic.
Just before we go to an ad break, we have this one last story on the Carney file, which we actually have a whole campaign dedicated to the Carney files.
So I would highly recommend anybody who's interested in learning more about Carney as we report on him.
Go to the Carney Files.
Is it.com or.ca?
Yeah, the CarneyFiles.com.
I'm currently reading values.
So I think next week on the live stream, I'll just read to you each day the one weird thing from values that I found the night before because it's just so much.
I don't even know how I could do a video a day.
I could do two videos a day on it, but I'm reading his manifesto.
And it's not like he's trying to hide these things from us.
It's out there.
Well, he has, he just took a jet-setting tour of Europe with his wife, burning two.
Yeah, there they are on full display.
242,000 liters of jet fuel on their first foreign trip amid tensions with President Donald Trump.
So as you already kind of mentioned, Sheila, the priority here of prime minister designate Mark Carney, I always like to put that designate in there because of his lack of parliamentary seat holding.
So anyway, yeah, he instead of heading down to the White House to meet with Donald Trump and try to defuse these tensions or, you know, get into some negotiations with save jobs, you know, do something good for the Canadian economy.
He decided to jet set over and meet with Macron with his wife, despite not having a mandate from Canadians or a seat in parliament and lecture everybody on, you know, their carbon footprint and being able to keep that ozone layer intact, right?
We haven't heard about the ozone layer in a long time.
But there he is jet setting, burning tons of jet fuel and spending Canadians' money as though he was elected to represent them.
And is this a surprise to anybody who's been paying attention?
I'm not sure.
It shouldn't be.
When Mark Carney was at the Bank of England, his two-year expense bill, and this is just governor of the Bank of England.
He probably lived around the corner from work.
His two-year expense bill, and his wife actually complained about how small their expense budget was allowed to be.
300,000 British pounds.
What is that?
500,000, 600,000 Canadian pesos in two years.
This was his expenses over and above his salary.
So for him to spend a quarter of a million dollars or yeah, I guess it was a quarter of a million bucks on his first welcome home to Europe junket with his wife does not shock me.
I think he's going to be even worse than Trudeau on the expense spending side.
Yeah, absolutely.
We have one super chat here from Peanut B gives $5.
They say when security clearance is obtained, how could someone fire someone or disclose who the foreign interferences are?
Why are liberals pushing this point?
Because it's all they have.
The reason Polyev has not, and he could, and actually members of his party have gotten their high-level security clearance.
The reason he doesn't want to get it, and he said this repeatedly is, I don't want to be gagged on these issues because then they can say, oh, it's secret.
We can't talk about it, don't you know?
Which is exactly what Trudeau said.
He said, there are members of the Conservative Party that I can't tell you about.
Well, the Conservatives actually told us about them.
Victor O and Patrick Brown, who they suspected of being the recipients of foreign interference.
The Conservatives actually said, they said, like, hey, this, they told on themselves when they noticed the anomalies and reported it to officials saying we've got some hanky things happening with these two.
The liberals could do the same thing.
They just hide behind their high-level security clearance to do it.
And it's not as if Carney even needed to get that high-level security clearance because, as you know, Melanie Jolie was giving him high-level briefings on the Trump negotiations when he was just a candidate before their rigged election to the leadership occurred.
Rigged selection.
Yeah.
Coronation.
All right.
Let's go to a quick ad break and then we'll come back to more Alberta-centric topics.
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All righty, let's get into what happened in Alberta yesterday.
And I didn't realize, like when I got the embargoed copy of the legislation, I was like, hot dang.
It's on, feds.
Good luck to you.
I didn't realize she was dropping it the day before Carney was meeting with her at 9 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.
So what Alberta did yesterday, and I'll let Premier Smith explain it to you in a second.
The Critical Infrastructure Defense Act is a law that we have in Alberta.
And it is designed, it was initially designed to protect us from eco-terrorists who would blow up pipelines.
And that has been a problem here.
Ecoterrorists sabotaging oil and gas facilities or chaining themselves to pipelines.
And then we saw it in northern British Columbia working on Coastal Gas Link where an axe-wielding mob rolled into the site and destroyed equipment.
And we saw like heavy equipment destroyed.
So in response to that, and credit where it's due, Jason Kenney brought in the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act, which basically means if you mess with our critical infrastructure, we'll treat you as a terrorist.
Now, that's where my gratitude to Jason Kenney on this issue ends because he never used it for that.
He used it to arrest a pastor who gave a sermon at the Coots border blockade under this quasi-terrorism law.
Well, Danielle Smith yesterday thought, okay, well, we'll use this thing for some good, for what it was intended and then some.
So yesterday, they expanded what is covered under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act to cover two more things.
The first makes perfect sense.
The two kilometer zone north of the southern Alberta border is now listed as critical infrastructure, which means drug trafficking, human trafficking down there, it will be prosecuted in Alberta under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act, which basically adds this next level of this is really bad to it because this is a quasi-anti-terrorism law.
But it also yesterday, they amended the law to include oil and gas facilities.
So that could be refineries, that could be pump jacks, that could be oil batteries, that could be head offices of oil and gas companies or the AER.
So that's the Alberta Energy Regulator, their office is, or anywhere that emissions data is stored.
And in the press release, they said basically, if federal agents, so environment, Canada people or whoever, are deployed to Alberta because we refuse to turn over our emissions data to comply with an unconstitutional emissions cap, we will trespass your people off the property and even charge them because you have no jurisdiction here.
And if the feds fight us on this, we'll invoke the Sovereignty Act over Alberta's constitutional right to determine the fate of our oil and gas industry.
So she dropped this hammer on the feds and Carney had to skulk into town this morning.
I don't think he knew it was coming.
And anyway, that's my sort of Colesnot's version of the law, but let's hear it from Danielle Smith because she says it better than anybody else.
We are announcing that government will introduce amendments to the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act to protect essential infrastructure, which in turn protects Alberta's economy and its people.
Some amendments are focused on the southern border.
Earlier this year, we created a two-kilometer deep zone in Alberta's side of the Canada-U.S. border and deployed the interdiction patrol team to secure it.
Now we're moving that zone into the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act.
So the definition of essential infrastructure is listed in one place.
Alone, this would be just a bit of legislative housekeeping.
But the amendments don't stop there.
They also designate oil and gas production sites and facilities where emissions data and records are held as essential infrastructure.
This amendment to the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act provides an extra tool to safeguard essential infrastructure from interference.
And that includes interference from Ottawa.
I would certainly hope that the new prime minister has taken the time to read our Constitution.
And I would direct him to pay specific attention to section 92A, which gives the province, not the federal government, the exclusive jurisdiction over non-renewable natural resource development.
Alberta will continue in its pursuit of doubling our oil and gas production to meet the growing global demand for energy.
And we will not let Ottawa stand in our way.
We will not tolerate the continuous unconstitutional overreaches made by the federal Liberal government.
Measures like the emissions cap, the net zero electricity regs, the net zero electric vehicle mandate, and the energy industry advertising ban must be stopped now.
And make no mistake, Alberta will do whatever it takes to shield our economy from the Liberals' growth-killing lunacy.
These amendments we're introducing today would include denying federal workers access to our facilities and the information they contain.
I will continue to fiercely and unapologetically stand up for Albertans and defend the best interest of our province, our economy, and our industry.
This ongoing tariff dispute has proven now, more than ever, that Canada must build big and build fast to reach new global markets for export.
Canadians and politicians from across the country are calling for new pipelines to be built, east, west, and north, to secure our future and end our reliance upon our southern trading partner.
However, if the new prime minister wants to resume an old fight, well, we will.
We'll fight tooth and nail.
Because if we can't make these decisions and build, then it's so obvious, when it's so obviously in the national interest, then what kind of an economic future does Canada have?
Today's amendments are a warning, but they're also an invitation to Ottawa.
Let's talk.
Let's rise to the occasion.
Let's use Canada's riches to protect our nation.
I can feel your envy, Peter.
I can feel your envy, Tamara, through my monitor.
Even just listening, I tuned in.
Dressing for the Weather00:03:14
I didn't get a question in, but I tuned into her presser.
What was that last week on Friday, I think it was?
And even just listening to her responses, you know, it made me so jealous of what we have here in Ontario, which is terrible.
The progressive conservatives, if you can even say conservative in that name, are just, I don't even think they're liberal light anymore.
They are just liberal.
Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are obviously good buddies, and they had each other's backs over the last few years while they were saying, oh, Canadians, we have your backs.
Like, no, you are just having each other's backs here.
And yeah, Danielle Smith is such a breath of fresh air from the last few years where everyday Canadians who are concerned with the way that the country is being run, the way the economy is going,
the rules and edicts and diktats that are coming down from government officials or even things like public health, they see someone like Danielle Smith who's really championing reason and rationale and is able to even have one of the mainstream media journalists kind of had it out with her for a few seconds in the presser, in the Q ⁇ A part.
And she was able to hold her own and she stayed calm and she was rational and articulate in her response.
And instead of like banishing them or having them arrested, she was like, well, no, I'll still answer your question.
And she did so very fairly and very, very calmly.
And I think that Canada would be well served to have more, not less of that.
Yeah, as an Albertan, it is, it's nice to hear somebody who is not sheepish about what we are able to do here, not just for ourselves, but for the rest of the country.
Usually it's like, you know what?
We're doing our, we're, you know, we're greening the oil and gas industry, but, you know, there's, you know, oil and gas demand is out there.
And so why not us?
No, she's like, we're doubling production.
And if you want to fight us on this, we'll see you in court.
Like there's no like sort of apologizing for the environmental impact and then sort of leaning into the social acceptance of, you know, like that, you know, you need it from us rather than Russia.
That is a valid point.
But she's just like, we're doubling it.
And if not, if you want to fight us, let's rumble, but I'd rather talk to you.
Like it's just so refreshing to hear her talk like that.
Like we do not need to apologize for being the furnace that fuels this country.
We don't.
We should be proud of it and people should treat us as important as we are, Mark Carney.
And so also it was a power move to drop this yesterday afternoon before the brand new prime minister skipped into town to meet with her.
Even for her to say, like call out the liberals growth cutting lunacy.
I mean, let's liberals are calling lunacy.
Yeah, growth killing.
I wrote it down.
I was like, that's a beautiful line.
It really is.
Yeah, I noted that one too.
And I thought she said growth cutting, but regardless, same difference.
But let's call it out.
Kids Guide Threat00:05:49
Why is Danielle Smith the only one who is calling out their absolute lunacy and the horrible effects that it has on hardworking everyday Canadians?
Get out of the way.
Get the red.
I mean, Danielle Smith is obviously a true conservative and she's not skirting any of these issues.
And she's calling a spade a spade, which I think is so refreshing.
And the more I see the way that Alberta is handling itself, I think maybe I could deal with the intense cold.
You get over it.
You just get used to it.
You know, you start dressing for the weather.
It's fine.
You realize you have to plug in your vehicle, I don't know, about three months of the year because it's so cold.
But life is more affordable.
You can afford to spend money on a really good winter jacket because you can afford cheaper here.
Yeah.
You can afford your gas and food and stuff like that.
And we have another clip here from Smith where she is, again, calling out the government, saying the biggest threat to the Alberta economy for the past 10 years, right?
We've been suffering a decade under this is the liberal government.
Yep.
The threats are coming from, you know, the tariffs, right?
That is the biggest threat.
That's what a lot of people are worried about.
Yet you're focusing some of your energies on the federal government.
The biggest threat.
Why is that?
Well, because the biggest threat to the Alberta economy has been the past 10 years of liberal government that canceled $176 billion worth of investment.
We continue to face threats, whether it's tanker ban off the West Coast, Bill C 69, which has still not been passed, net zero power rigs, net zero cars, net zero buildings, methane caps, emissions caps.
If they continue doing that, it'll crush our economy.
So I would say that we'd face a dual threat.
Yes, we have to deal with the tariffs, but we also equally have to deal with a federal liberal government that has tried to crush our economy for the past 10 years.
And we're just not going to let them do that anymore, especially now that we're seeing an unprecedented interest in trying to get pipelines built, east, west, and north.
And so this is our signal to the federal government, especially since even with the new prime minister still seems to be very enthusiastic about taking over our tier program and emissions caps and carbon pricing and what that would mean.
We're just letting him know this is our business.
Section 92A of the Constitution gives us the right to manage our resources.
And we're going to assert that that includes the emissions data that comes from those resources and the installations that we manage.
It will be really interesting to see the dynamic if there, if and when, when I should say, there is a polyev conservative government.
And if those two put their heads together and if Polyev acts like an actual conservative, the wealth that will open up in Canada and hopefully turn this ship around.
Yeah, I thought I saw a press release or a video this morning.
Maybe we can find it.
It was quite early this morning.
Polyev He made an announcement like that the timeline on proposals from proposal to approval.
We're not doing this 10 years to get a refinery built or a pipeline built anymore in this country.
We're building, if he's elected, west to east, north to south, south to north, west to further west.
And I think he said that there will be some streamlining, thank God, of the regulatory process.
I don't know if we are able to find that, Olivia, but that was an early morning video that he put out this morning.
If we can't find it, that's okay because we have an ad read that we will use to pay the bills around here because unlike the CBC and the people crying about not getting to travel on the tour bus with the conservatives, we rely on your support and a little bit from sponsors who are willing to work with us.
So this one is from the Kids Guide.
So this one's for parents out there.
If you have kids in school, you know they're being constantly brainwashed, by the way, by liberal teachers and you sort of need to do a debrief of your children every day after they walk in the door.
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One of the team found the shovel ready zones clip from Polya this morning.
So let's watch that before we go into the bad stuff that China is doing today.
Canola Exports and Farming Challenges00:11:25
We need to get east-west pipelines.
We need to get oil through Quebec in order to create jobs for Quebec steel workers and Quebec construction workers while we break our dependence on Trump and America.
The Liberals have driven a half trillion dollars south.
I want to bring it home.
And that's why we need to put Canada first.
It's time to bring home our jobs, energy, and economic sovereignty.
That is what my economic, my bring-it-home economic plan is all about.
And so today, I'm announcing that a conservative government will bring forward Canada first shovel ready zones, areas pre-approved for large-scale industrial and resource projects.
This is how it will work.
First, we will identify a spot that looks appropriate for a mine, a pipeline, an LNG plant, a power station, a hydroelectric dam.
Second, we will make sure that the place is safe and that it won't harm the people or the environment to put the project there.
Third, my government will do the necessary environmental studies in partnership and collaboration with the provinces, municipalities, and we will carry out the necessary constitutionally required consultations with the First Nations upfront so that they don't have so that they can be done before the investors even step up.
Fourth, when all of this is done, we will offer pre-permitting before we even get applications so that permits can be published online with a required checklist of actions that businesses must take to comply in protecting people and the environment.
Then, businesses would have all the information legally binding published online that they could use to make a real investment decision.
This will be necessary after years of uncertainty where businesses spent billions of dollars in many years getting to a maybe.
They will know that they have a yes up front.
They can do the math, pencil it out, and get busy.
There you have it.
We'll go do a quick ad break and then we'll come back with some China, the beacon of human rights upholdings.
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All right.
Amid all the tariff trade tensions we have with the United States, we also have them with China.
So today, I believe, is the first day that Chinese tariffs come into effect on $3.7 billion worth of Canadian goods.
This comes from the Globe and Mail.
These new Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products came into force just after midnight today, Thursday, 12 days after they were first announced by Beijing as a retaliatory measure on Chinese electric vehicles that was imposed on China by Ottawa, by the Liberals last year to 100%.
So this piles, of course, even more pressure on Canadian exporters already worried about this escalating trade war with the United States.
And it's primarily on Canadian canola, oil, oil cakes, and pea imports, as well as a 25% duty on Canadian pork and aquatic products.
Something I didn't realize was that China is actually a major buyer of Canadian seafood products.
And it's a huge buyer of Canadian pork.
I think it is the number one buyer.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Somebody, a farmer will let me know in the comments of our canola exports.
Canada, I did this before, and I'll just give a brief history of canola in case people don't know.
Because it really irks me as a farmer that the Team Canada elbows up.
People are not defending our canola exports.
So we grow most of the world's canola.
It's grown on the prairies.
50% of it is grown in Saskatchewan, another 30% in Alberta, and then 20% between Manitoba and wherever they're growing it in British Columbia.
Now, wherever you fall in the seed oil issue, that's irrelevant because this is like a $30 billion industry for Canada, and they can use it for biofuel.
I don't care if they eat it.
It's not my business what happens when it leaves the farm in the hopper, right?
But canola is such an exclusively Canadian product.
It was the name canola, the C-A-N, stands for Canada.
It's Canadian oil low acid, canola.
It was developed for our short growing seasons and specifically for our soil conditions.
It is developed so that it ripens after it's swathed in the field because that gives us more time in a short growing season, right?
Got to sort of swath it by August and it can lay in the field, swathed and ripened.
And yet, China slaps these retaliatory tariffs on Canadian farmers in the West.
And the elbows up Team Canada don't even seem to care that this particularly Canadian industry is being hammered.
Why?
You don't stand to lose any votes on the prairies, liberals.
So they slapped these EV tariffs on to Chinese-made EVs.
Why?
To protect the gajillions of dollars in bucks that they spent on foreign companies who are building EVs or EV components in Ontario and Quebec.
So right now, Western farmers are being, and our fishermen are being sacrificed to save those EV bailouts in eastern Canada.
It is revolting and nobody seems to care.
I saw Francois-Philippe Champagne say basically, so what?
The other day.
You better buy your electric vehicles or elsewhere as they try to, they're trying to phase out fueled, fossil-fueled vehicles so that you have to buy an electric vehicle because they're investing so heavily in them.
And Stellantis, that plant is in serious financial problems, if not already not going ahead.
North Volt is going broke in its home company.
But in Canada, we're just like, shovel the money on.
Oh, the Western farmers are getting tariffs.
Oh, it's also planting season.
They don't seem to care.
People are making contingency plans for planting season.
And, you know, like, it's not just like you can shift away from the crop that you've been growing.
We do, of course, rotational planting, but like it's serious investment to become a canola farmer.
It's not just seed.
It's not just bins and hoppers.
It's specific kinds of equipment to harvest these crops in the field.
You just can't be like, okay, well, we've got tariffs again.
Thanks, Justin Trudeau, like he did with pulses.
Last time he pranced his way through India, we came home with pulse tariffs.
This is a huge deal.
And the liberals just don't care.
And where are there calls for boycotts of the dollar store and all the Chinese-made products to defend Canadian farmers?
There's nothing.
It's just orange man bad.
Yeah, that's right.
I don't see anyone in the grocery store saying, oh, the Canadian products.
And actually, last night I was at the grocery store and over the loudspeaker, it was very COVID era reminiscent when they were like, stay home, save lives.
Make sure that you stand six feet apart.
Wear your mask.
Don't kill grandma.
Now over the loudspeaker, they're like, make sure that you support our Canadian products and check the Canadian food label.
And we're doing our best to make sure that all the labels are accurate, but please be understanding if it's not until we get caught up on all the labels because people are looking at things like Canadian orange juice and they're going, wait a minute, we don't grow oranges here in Canada.
So how like, okay, yeah, the oranges are imported and then you make the juice in Canada, but it's still, you know, it's like greenwashing or whitewashing the Canadian label.
But anyway, yeah, you don't hear any about any of that with China or yeah, boycotting the dollar store, which is all China, China factory-made stuff or even Walmart.
I mean, the vast majority of things you're going to purchase in a Walmart are going to be made in China.
Do you know what I've got an idea for a good story?
I'm going to go through that shopping cart of Justin Trudeau's the other day where he was buying his bachelor pad junk at the Canadian Tire on Monday, just in Monday morning at Canadian Tire.
How do you do, fellow divorced dads of Canada?
I am going to look at his cart and then I'm going to go to my Canadian Tire and I am going to look to see where those items are made because I'm pretty sure those dollar or those Canadian tire utensils, so the Canadian tire brand, whatever it is that he's got in the cart there, those are not made in Canada.
I guarantee you, those are Chinese.
Well, and so many labels now it says made in Canada from domestic and imported ingredients, right?
A lot of the food that we get here is technically made in Canada, but we're importing a lot of the ingredients or the materials to manufacture that product.
So there's, you know, you have to look past some of those labels sometimes.
I think their avocados are bagged in Canada.
And so that alleviates the left-wing avocado toast worry warts that they are buying Canadian when they get their avocados because they're put in that stupid brown or green mesh bag that that can constitute made in Canada as far as your grocery produce goes.
Vandalizing EVs: Tesla Dealership Incident00:10:45
The ones that kill the seagulls.
Yeah, those are the ones.
Do we want to talk quickly about the China, the four dual citizens?
We have a clip here of that.
And then maybe we'll get into some of this EV hypocrisy from the left vandalizing Tesla.
Sure.
Yep.
Yeah.
It was a good segue there with the EV vehicle tariff talk.
But anyway, while we're on the topic of China, we have a video here of Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joli discussing four dual citizens.
So they were Canadian Chinese citizens that were executed by China.
Can you tell us anything about their charges?
They were all dual citizens and all of them.
And that's all the information that I will give you.
Can you talk about what they were accused of or even the nature of what they were accused of?
We're all facing charges linked to criminal activities according to China, linked to drugs.
According to China, with a very, yeah, with a high track record of really stellar human rights upholdings.
Yeah, you know what?
Maybe these guys are fentanyl trackers or traffickers, but I'm inclined to believe that China actually doesn't care about fentanyl trafficking, considering much of the components for fentanyl in this country and are here by way of China.
So I'm not so sure that they care about those things, except maybe if you're trafficking fentanyl inside China.
But I'm reliably informed by the light on crime liberals that they are anti-death penalty.
So I don't take that approach, but they do.
Why are they just like, well, they were, they just four citizens were executed.
They were executed by China for drug charges.
Shouldn't we know a little bit more about it?
Considering they scooped up the two Michaels on nonsense charges and held them for like years, years in retaliation.
Four years.
Yeah.
And then just let them go.
Just off you go.
And here's why I am inclined not to believe China.
And I would love to be wrong because if they are executing fentanyl traffickers, I'm willing to hear that.
But if they were, I feel like Melanie Jolie would have told us a little bit more.
And from the Foreign Interference Commission, I remember being shocked and then shocked that nobody else was shocked that CSIS just testified like it was nothing that they know of at least two Canadians that were forcibly repatriated, Reed kidnapped, back to China from Canadian soil.
So were these even Canadians that had been in China just as dual citizens, or were they abducted from Canada?
Because you know what happened at least twice and they're just like, yeah, it happened.
So how did they get back to China to get executed?
I feel like that is a real big concern because it should worry the expats in Canada who are freedom-minded, i.e., Kenny Chong and the like.
If China can just come over here, take you back to China, Canadian officials testify about it.
They know what happens.
They don't do much about it.
And then you end up executed for drug charges in China.
There's a lot we don't know right now.
Yeah, well, here in Canada, we don't really have any sort of offense for drug charges.
You're just free to go back out onto the streets and we'll wrap it up in a bow and call it safer supply and the government will sell it to you.
Just don't honk.
Please don't honk.
Just make sure that you don't go to the nation's capital to protest the government's actions because then you're in real trouble.
And then we have, I think, this one.
Yeah, do we want to play that CSIS clip from you, Sheila, from the Foreign Interference Commission?
You know what?
Stay tuned.
I'm going to use it in a video.
So just, I have a video to get off my chest on this issue.
So I'll use that foreign interference.
It'll shock you.
I was just like, I can't believe what I just heard.
And then they just moved on from it.
It blew my mind.
I think we should talk about Tesla.
Yes.
Yeah.
So yesterday, Alexa Lavois, our Quebec correspondent, did a great report on these activists heading over to a Tesla dealership where they poured paint, spray painted it, vandalized the entire front-facing facade of this building and were subsequently arrested.
And so they're at it again today.
They're at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, the nation's capital, where you will be arrested for honking a horn.
They're back there again.
And we have a clip here to share the same group vandalizing that was vandalizing the Tesla dealership yesterday is now at the U.S. Embassy doing the exact same thing.
The full, what they say there, Alexa's report from yesterday.
I don't know if we can pull up the clip of it, but they go on this long spiel about how they're the last generation and they won't die at the hands of fossil fuel exploiters.
I'm disappointed that guy from the embassy didn't flatten her.
You should have come out a little bit quicker.
It was a little too gentle for my liking.
It would be nice to compare the identity and see if it's actually the same person again.
Like, are they, were they out on bail?
I assume they're out on bail already.
Canada's judicial system is in complete disarray for any violent offenders, repeat violent offenders will be out on bail in a few hours after being arrested.
So I wouldn't doubt if this is quite literally the same individual, if not just the same group.
Yeah, well, it says it's they, I mean, they publicly announced that they're the same group.
And we have this other news item about the Tesla dealership in Hamilton.
Now we've got a spite of these problems busting out.
And again, like last generation, they're an environmentalist group.
What are you doing destroying the Tesla dealership?
Yeah, so as many as 80 Tesla vehicles damaged at a dealership in Hamilton, say police.
Now, again, what does Doge in the United States have to do with Canada?
These guys are just like also, you know, they're like the yes ands, the same, as I said yesterday, the women's marchers in Canada after Donald Trump got elected.
And it's like, what the heck are you ladies marching for?
You guys haven't good here.
And then some.
And by the way, nothing happened to you in the United States.
So just chill out.
But this is the same thing.
It's like, oh, they're protesting Elon in the United States.
Let's protest him here in Canada, even though I wish we would claim him more than we do.
You know, he's a dual citizen Canadian too, like or triple citizen.
I guess he's American and South African and Canadian.
I think we should lean more into that.
I like the guy.
But yeah, like, what has this got to do with Canada?
They don't know.
If you ask them, they wouldn't know.
They have no idea because just a mere year ago, two years ago, these activists were champions of Tesla and electric vehicles because it was doing away with the demon fossil, the demonized fossil fuels.
And they were champions.
They wanted more electric everything.
Let's electrify the city buses and all heavy equipment and town municipal vehicles.
Everything should be electrified.
And now they are vandalizing it because they don't agree with Elon Musk's political leanings.
So it's really funny to see that how that has evolved over the last few years.
I posted on my Instagram.
Oh, I don't know if I can't get the video out for this live stream, but I spotted a car, a Tesla driving and on the rear, the bumper sticker was, I purchased this Tesla before Elon went crazy or something like that.
And it's like, oh my gosh.
So you virtue signaled by buying the Tesla.
Now you don't want the negative connotation, whatever that may be, with Elon Musk and his affiliations with a Department of Government Efficiency.
Like, why, who is against a department of government efficiency to make sure that your tax dollars are going to the salaries and to initiatives that are actually working to serve you as the people, not just funnel and line the pockets of bureaucrats and foreign interests.
But anyway, it's so funny to see that virtue signaling just totally backpedal to the point where you feel compelled to buy a bumper sticker to make sure that everybody knows you bought the Tesla before Elon went crazy as though he's the crazy one and it's not actually you.
I have to show you this one thing, and I know who owns this Tesla.
I don't think he has ever publicly said, I think we all know who owns this Tesla.
But sorry, I have to, I'll just cut and paste it.
It's on Reddit.
It went wild on Reddit and then it sort of went viral on Instagram.
But this is, again, Alberta remains the better place in Confederation.
And I say that not just as an Albertan, but as a political observer.
This is the, I think this was a Tesla, Tesla in Calgary.
You see the sticker on that bad boy?
I love oil and gas.
So that's the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers sticker.
So this is a Tesla in Calgary.
And so, again, even our Tesla owners lean into the oil and gas industry here, as opposed to, I guess, the lunatics in Hamilton, Ontario.
Hamilton is really not a nice place, is it?
That's my impression on the outside looking in.
Sorry.
Same with Montreal.
Tommy's Solitary Confinement Struggle00:09:52
Sorry, Alexa, because my goodness, the amount of protests and the violence that, you know, get out and protest, sure, have your voice heard.
But why do we have to engage in this violent, these violent, destructive acts?
It's just, you know, that's no one's hearing you out at that point.
Just go home.
Yeah.
I know we have an ad read to do, Olivia, but should we, and I know we have to wrap up, but should we just let everybody have a peek at what Ezra's been up to in the UK?
I think it's important work.
All the international eyes are on Ezra right now.
Tommy Robinson, free speech activist, documentary filmmaker.
He's in solitary confinement in a UK prison for a civil conviction, which is odd to me, for publishing a video, a documentary on X that a judge didn't like.
And so he's been months already in solitary confinement.
There's a hearing about the potential for a release for him today.
Ezra has been in the courtroom live tweeting, and there were some pretty dramatic things that happened in the courtroom.
Tommy's lawyers are alleging that he cannot see visitors.
And I don't think it's alleged because we've tried to visit him, that people are being blocked from visiting for political reasons by what's known as, I forget what they call the warden of the prison there, to use a Western world term, North American term.
And while Tommy was trying to confer with his lawyer on an issue after the judge said, Tommy, you need to confer with your lawyer, the prison cut the feed because Tommy was appearing remotely.
So the prison interfered with Tommy's ability to discuss things with his lawyer at the request of the judge.
The judge was not happy, but I'll zip it.
Let's just show a little bit from Ezra, if you wouldn't mind.
Well, it's Ezra Levant here.
We have a break in the court.
And I'll tell you a little bit about it.
So I'm giving you an update.
Of course, I'm standing outside the gorgeous Royal Courts of Justice in a neighborhood of the UK called the Strand.
It's so beautiful here.
I wish I could stay longer.
I arrived at 6:30 a.m.
It took me actually a couple hours to find my way into the city, and I've got to fly out at 6 p.m.
So, really, as soon as I'm done here, I'm heading out, but I'm glad I came and here's why.
So, what was today?
Today was a sort of a scheduling hearing.
It was a case management hearing, as we call it in Canada, where Tommy Robinson's lawyers were trying to convince a judge to hear a challenge to Tommy's imprisonment status, to hear it on an expedited basis.
What I mean by that is justice moves slowly, it takes months to get court dates, but that doesn't work if someone's in solitary confinement where every day counts.
So, today is a special hearing to convince a judge, his name is Justice Martin Chamberlain, that Tommy has a sufficiently important case that's sufficiently urgent that the actual substantive hearing should be done on a speedy basis.
So, today isn't the resolution of the actual question, should Tommy be taken out of solitary confinement?
Today is a resolution of a preliminary question: is that a sufficiently urgent matter for the court to move faster than it normally does?
Now, the fact that they scheduled today's hearing fairly quickly in itself is a good sign.
I did a little bit of Googling on Justice Martin Chamberlain, and he once told the Times of London that he thinks the UK should have U.S.-style freedom of speech, like the First Amendment.
That would be amazing.
I wish Canada had that too.
So, any judge who says that, well, I'm feeling good about them.
And there's a UK eco-extremist group called Extinction Rebellion.
They're awful.
Not only do they block highways, they deface priceless art.
They're the worst people in the world.
But this judge, in a ruling, you know, I'm going from memory here, so my details might not be perfect, defended the right of Extinction Rebellion to have some of their protests.
And again, I despise Extinction Rebellion, but the fact that this judge is fighting for their freedom to protest, again, perhaps that redounds to Tommy's benefit in this hearing.
So Tommy's King's Counsel, that's a senior barrister.
Alistair Williamson was on his feet basically going through the facts of Tommy's incarceration.
And the main piece of evidence he was referring to was a medical report by, I'm not sure if it was a psychologist or a psychiatrist, forgive me, who met with Tommy in prison and spent some time diagnosing him,
talking to him, asking him questions about a number of things, and then wrote a scientific medical report on Tommy's PTSD and ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder and attention deficit disorder, both of which were exacerbated by his last day in solitary confinement, which have sort of flourished again in this day.
So it's a very acute warning of Tommy's mental health.
On his feet in reply, the KC for the government, the Secretary of State is the particular office, but it was just a King's Council lawyer, argued that, oh, it's not really solitary confinement because Tommy has the occasional visitor and he has the occasional phone call and he's allowed to do arts and crafts or something, they said.
He was basically saying tough luck.
There was one instance where they tommy was offered drugs by the health officers at the prison.
Oh, you're having a tough time in solitary for nine months.
We can get you on drugs.
Like, can you imagine that?
Anyways, it went back and forth.
And I should say that Tommy Robinson was joining not in person, but by a video link.
So Tommy was in the prison.
We could all see him.
He could see us and he could hear the proceedings.
And he was listening to Mr. Cross, that's the government's lawyer, talk about how wonderful Tommy has.
And he has this many visits and this many phone calls.
And it's just a luxury vacation compared.
It's better even than other prisoners have was at one point of contention by the government.
And Tommy started waving his arm madly.
And the judge took notice of that.
The judge, being no dummy, said, Oh, he clearly objects to that.
And the judge said, Well, maybe we should take a break and let Tommy have a phone call with his lawyer.
Tommy's not going to come and give evidence, but maybe Tommy can give some information to his lawyer, who would then perhaps refute Mr. Cross.
So the court went on a half-hour break while the lawyers talked to Tommy on the phone.
But then Tommy came back to the room through his video link and he held up a sign saying they cut off my phone.
And indeed, that was confirmed by Aleister Williamson, Tommy's lawyer.
So the judge was not happy with this at all.
The judge inquired and said, Are you serious?
The prison cut off the phone call between Tommy and his lawyer when I instructed the lawyer to talk to Tommy.
In effect, the prison cut off the call to the judge, didn't they?
The judge was not on the call, but the judge instructed Tommy and Tommy's lawyer to brief themselves so that the hearing could proceed.
The prison scotched that.
The prison scuppered that.
The judge was not pleased.
The judge said to the government's lawyer, Mr. Cross, you get on the phone and you tell the prison that they must reconnect Tommy.
And then after some back and forth, they realized that having a video link that would just save time, Tommy would speak directly through the video link and everyone else would clear the court.
So in fact, that's why I'm on the street right now.
But understand what happened.
For the whole morning, Tommy's lawyer was saying how oppressive the treatment in the prison was.
And for the whole morning, the government's lawyer was saying, no, it's wonderful.
Tommy has so many privileges.
And then, as if to prove the whole point, the prison cut off Tommy mid-phone call to his own lawyers, not even just a family or a friend, but to his own lawyers, he was instructing.
This judge is not an emotionally expressive judge.
He would probably be called stone-faced, but you could hear his anger.
And the instructions he gave Mr. Cross, the government's lawyer, were quite stern.
Okay.
So that's a little bit of what's happening in the courtroom today.
Ezra filed several videos about what happened.
Also, he was posting to X the minutia of what was happening in the courtroom, including the complaining of the mainstream media for having to sit beside a fake journalist like Ezra, according to the fake journalist who had to sit beside Ezra.
So there's that.
I think it's at TommyTrial.com.
Trials?
Trial.
Trials.
Trial.
TommyTrial.com.
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Where you can follow along and also support Ezra's trip because he hopped like a last-minute flight to get there to do all of the court reporting.
And he is turning around and coming right back home to Canada.
I've done that trip before.
It is physically taxing because you're not even long enough to have a shower.
You just get off the plane, go straight to the courthouse, tweet, and then come home.
And then hopefully you can sleep on the plane, maybe.
You don't even have time to eat while you're there.
You just turn around and come right back.
So anyway, that's it, TommyTrial, I believe.
No com.
Sorry.
Tommy Reports.
Tommy Reports.
Thank you.
Thank you.
TommyReports.com.
We have a few Tommy Robinson-related URLs.
So frequently I confuse them.
So thank you for that.
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I didn't even think of that.
Since Brookfield Asset Management is in the United States, Trump could do things to that.
And it has plenty of American investments.
As the conservatives pointed out, that one of the things that Carney did as the head of Brookfield Asset Management was to grow Brookfield's American-held assets.
So yeah, there's that too.
Interesting point.
Thank you for pointing that out.
And that's the only one we know of.
Right.
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I'm trying to hide my cat from the viewers, but he is insistent on coming on screen.
Oh, oh, wow.
Hello, little friend.
We're very monochromatic today.
But yeah, tucking into the warmth.
Trigger, he's getting big.
I'm turning into a cat lady.
I'm just embarrassed of myself.
Get out of here.
That's how I feel when mine comes in and bugs me.
And but sometimes you'll hear my cat in the morning meeting and or the morning or the evening meeting and someone will be like, is that a kid?
But it's actually my cat.
He meows and it sounds like he's saying mom.
It's so weird.
Why don't you talk?
What's wrong with you?
He's such a needy, he's such a needy cat.
Like it's very annoying.
I wasn't previously a cat person.
I was not as obsessed.
Yeah, I was not a cat person, but this cat is a Sheila person.
And so he's grown on me, I guess.
Anyways, I don't like people to see this side of me.
Thanks a lot, cat.
Anyway, let's wrap up the show so that I can spend some quiet time with my cat working on my videos.
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