Ezra Levant exposes CBC’s $1.5B taxpayer-funded "lie machine," from dismissed lawsuits like the 2019 olive chemical claim and Subway’s $210M defamation fight to smear campaigns against journalists like Drea Humphrey during election debates, labeling her questions as misinformation without correction or apology. He ties CBC’s unproven 2021 "mass grave" claims to moral panic and church burnings, while linking RBC’s debanking of figures like Eva Chipiak—frozen three times, including for a Bitcoin transaction—to systemic government-bank collusion. The episode contrasts the Crown’s push for seven-year sentences and asset forfeiture against Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Leach and Chris Barber with perceived leniency toward other protests, framing it as a broader attack on dissent while taxpayers foot the bill. [Automatically generated summary]
How CBC's lies about black olives led to a lawsuit against the victims of CBC's misinformation.
And it appears the era of political debanking is not yet over.
It's July 24th, 2025.
I'm Sheila Gunread, and you're watching the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious whoo-bug.
The election has kicked off, and many of you have asked how CBC News will be fact-checking claims made on the trail.
From missing context to full-blown conspiracies, we have a game plan.
The fact-check team is responsible for researching, writing, and reporting on claims made by political parties and their leaders on election issues.
This could include policy statements, campaign matters, or issues about the leaders themselves.
Generally, this is what our day looks like.
Every morning, the senior producer, me, decides on the fact-check priorities in collaboration with the election assignment desk.
Then I assign the fact-check team with what stories they're going to work on, as well as what treatments they might do and which platforms they'll go on.
The team will build a database of facts that reporters and producers can then refer to.
It's meant to be comprehensive and easily searchable for journalists who are working on stories.
Let's talk about the truth, or at least the version of it pumped out daily by Canada's state broadcaster, the CBC.
CBC likes to pretend it's a firewall against fake news, a champion of the facts, the moral compass in an age of misinformation.
But if you've paid any attention over the last few years, you'll know they're not the hoes putting out the fire.
They're the ones lighting the match and then also bringing a jerry can of gas to make it worse.
Bogus CBC Claims00:03:05
Let's talk about something seemingly innocent: black olives.
I saw this story this morning and I knew I just had to talk about it.
In 2019, CBC's French language show, La Picierie, aired a sensational segment suggesting black olives weren't naturally ripened, but chemically died.
It spooked a viewer in Quebec so badly, she launched a class action lawsuit, not against CBC, mind you, but against grocery giants like Walmart, Lobla, Sobees.
She accused them of selling fake food to millions of unsuspecting Canadians.
Why?
Because she believed the CBC, she took them at their word.
But the claim was bogus.
As first reported by BlackLock's reporter, the process in question is called oxidation.
And ferrous gluconate, a federally approved compound, is used to stabilize the black color.
Not diet.
It's safe.
It's regulated and listed on the label.
The judge threw the case out, calling the CBC-fueled panic vague and imprecise.
That's a nice way of saying it was misinformation.
So the CBC makes a bogus claim.
Viewers, believing them, panic, and innocent businesses get hauled to court to defend themselves.
And CBC, they walk away like nothing happened.
It's a pattern, especially when it comes to food, actually.
Let's talk about chicken.
In 2017, CBC's marketplace claimed Subway's chicken sandwiches were only about 50% chicken.
The rest, you name it, soy filler.
Subway adds that the other samples don't.
Soy protein.
Why would you need to put more protein in a chicken product?
A lot of great binding capabilities, potentially improved texture, those type of things.
And in some sense, it also makes the product slightly more cost-effective.
Okay, so cheaper.
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
Remember, our DNA test shows Subway strips and oven roasted chicken could be only about 50% chicken.
And guess what?
The rest, mostly soy.
So it's very likely that they're probably making more of a product that contains this ground chicken and forming it into a patty.
It made national headlines.
Viewers were disgusted.
If you care about not eating soy, and I do, you were not going back to Subway.
Subway's brand was dragged through the dirt.
Subway fought back.
They had independent labs test their product.
The results showed far more chicken than CBC claimed.
So Subway sued CBC for $210 million in damages, alleging defamation and reputational harm.
National Headlines Disgraced00:15:24
At first, CBC dodged accountability.
A judge tossed the case under Ontario's anti-slap laws, not because CBC's reporting was accurate, they never actually said that, but because it was deemed in the public interest, even if it was wrong.
But in 2021, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned that decision, saying Subway's case had merit, and I think it does, and deserved a full trial.
That case is still active four years later.
And yes, you, the taxpayer, you are footing the bill for CBC's legal defense.
So we've got bogus olive stories triggering lawsuits and chicken scandals leading to multi-million dollar court battles.
But the CBC doesn't just hurt companies with their lies.
They go after people too.
Take Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey.
During the 2025 federal election, Drea asked a question at the leader's debate.
Remember this?
Hello, Mr. Sting.
Drea Humphrey.
Drea News.
Your party takes great pride in standing against hate, such as white supremacy, Islamophobia, and all.
Sorry, I didn't get your outlet.
Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.
Okay.
Your party.
You know I'm going to go with this, though, right?
Can I speak?
Yeah, you can.
I'm just going to say, you know where I'm going to go with it, though.
Wow.
Your party takes pride in standing against hate such as white supremacy, Islamophobia, and online hate speech.
Yet you stay silent about ongoing attacks against Christians, even after Conservative MP Jamil Giovanni's order paper question revealed that over 200 churches have been targeted by arson and vandalism since claims of remains being discovered at former residential schools swept the nation in 2021.
These claims have been disproven by bans that excavated and remain unproven by those that have not.
Will you condemn the rise in acts of hate against Christians today and explain what your party will do moving forward to keep Christians safe from hate In Canada.
Again, thank you, but I'm not going to respond to an organization that promotes misinformation and disinformation like Rebel News.
So, no, I'm not going to respond to your question.
Wow.
She said, had no misinformation in it.
Perhaps you didn't hear me.
Over 200 Christian places of worship have been attacked in Canada since 2021.
Many served First Nations communities.
Many were historic.
And they diverted police and resources and put others at risk.
What do you say to Canadians who see your refusal to answer, especially from one of the few media outlets here that are not funded by the state as proof that a vote for you is a vote for a dangerous radical party that gaslights the public into thinking it stands against hate when its silence is instead embolding Christophobia?
Your question is another example of why I don't respond to agencies like Rebel News that promote misinformation and disinformation.
Now, that same night, CBC's Rosemary Barton accused Drea on national television of spreading misinformation about Kamloops' residential school graves and church burnings.
Look at this.
There's three right-wing, very right-wing media.
We can call them media websites that are present in there.
They get in line to ask a question like anybody else.
Their accreditation has been approved by the Commission of Debates.
And so they get the right to stand in line and ask a question that they choose to ask.
In this case, you saw Mr. Singh, and this has been his position for some time, to refuse to answer questions.
Rebel News in particular, traffics and misinformation, facts, lack of facts, and as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth and some things that weren't true.
Yes, there have been burnings of Christian Catholic churches.
Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places around the country, which she misrepresented.
We'll see if Mr. Polyev gets any questions from right-wing organizations.
I was suspect.
What Barton said was the misinformation.
What Barton said was the complete fabrication.
And by the way, Drea was on site at CBC Radio Canada, same place that Barton was.
Did Barton ever invite Drea on to give her the right of reply to get her side of the story?
Definitely not.
Although that is responsible journalism.
CBC and responsible journalism, they don't know each other.
Now, Barton's smear was so egregious that CBC had to issue a correction on its website.
But did Rosemary Barton ever apologize?
Did she correct the record on air the way CBC's own retraction policy demands?
Nope, not even once.
There was no retraction during the nightly news.
No apology to Drea, just a silent back page correction online.
Buried like an afterthought.
No accountability, no consequences.
And speaking of Kamloops, let's not forget how CBC breathlessly reported that 215 children had been buried in a mass grave.
That was the claim.
It ran for weeks, months.
In fact, the CBC still calls residential school discoveries mass graves.
I found this this morning.
And to this date, it should be noted that at least at Kamloops, no bodies have been exhumed.
No forensic evidence has confirmed the existence of a mass grave or any grave at all.
The CBC, however, didn't question any of those facts.
They didn't verify.
They just ran with it.
And what was the result?
National mourning, church burnings, statue topplings, division, a full-blown moral panic built on radar anomalies and zero exhumations.
And when the truth began to trickle out, again, CBC, quiet, no correction, no retraction, no reflection, just let's just all move along.
Nothing to see here.
So let's add it all up.
CBC scares viewers with a false story about olives and innocent grocers get sued.
I mean, it's laughable, but innocent grocers got sued because of the lies.
CBC botches chicken DNA claims.
Subway gets smeared, then sues.
The case is still alive.
We're paying for it.
CBC defames journalists, no apology.
CBC fuels mass hysteria over a mass grave that has yet to be proven and no one at the network gets held to account.
And you, as I said, pay for it all.
CBC receives $1.5 billion a year in taxpayer money.
That's your money funding this misinformation train wreck.
They don't just fail to report the truth.
They bulldoze it, spin it, bury it, and then demand praise for the wreckage.
They're not Canada's answer to disinformation.
They're the problem.
That phone call is coming from inside the house, CBC.
They hurt businesses.
They destroy reputations.
They fan hysteria.
And when they get caught, they issue a one-line correction on a webpage nobody sees while the reputational damage they caused lives on.
CBC says it exists to protect the public, but ask yourself, who's protecting the public from them?
Joining us after the break, Convoy lawyer Eva Chipiak, who is just debanked by RBC.
stay with us.
You know, I thought with a new prime minister in Canada and a new president in the United States that the era of political debanking might, might be over.
But I think I was a little too optimistic.
That's not my way to be optimistic like that.
But we just saw in the United States, Michael Knowles, podcaster Michael Knowles with the Daily Wire, fighting with Stripe over political debanking.
And yesterday, I saw online good friend of Rebel News and good friend of freedom in general, lawyer Eva Chipiak saying that her bank, RBC, was ceasing their business relationship.
And so I thought I had to have Eva on.
For those of you who don't know her, and I don't know how you couldn't, she's the convoy lawyer who examined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his role in violating the rights of thousands of peaceful, freedom-minded Canadians for standing up to mandates and other forms of government overreach.
Last question, Mr. Prime Minister.
When did you and your government start to become so afraid of your own citizens?
That's a very Eva.
Thanks for coming on the show.
You posted the letter that you received from RBC, Royal Bank of Canada, yesterday.
What's happening to you?
Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm still in a bit of shock.
Yeah.
I opened the letter not expecting that.
And so I was taken aback, didn't honestly know what to do, and then decided to post it.
And clearly it's gone, it's taken on a life of its own.
What I just want to highlight right from the start is just how many people said they had similar experiences, which really causes me pause and concern because here I get this letter.
And of course, we know about some of them during the convoy and they suggested it was connected to that.
And now it's just so many more people are sharing their story that they've had similar circumstances with the big banks in Canada.
Yeah.
And, you know, just going back to the convoy, how quickly the big banks buckled under pressure from the federal government.
I mean, it hardly even seemed like pressure.
You know, the federal government decided that they were going to treat freedom-minded Canadians as though they were terrorist financiers and freeze their bank accounts, leaving them all but indigent with no clue about how long those seizures would last.
And yet we have a federal government right now that doesn't seem to be using their powers under FinTrack to figure out who's funding these pro-Hamas protests every single week.
It's hard to argue that this targeting isn't political when you see it like that.
Yeah, and I think you're right.
And I think I would even go almost further in some of the evidence that we saw at the Public Order Emergency Commission.
And I know we were talking almost daily at the time, is there was evidence when Christia Freeland at the time, the deputy minister and finance minister, I think it was, was showing, she was being questioned on some of the notes she took.
And it was, she was having discussions with the CEOs of the big banks.
And it wasn't even the government telling them.
It was them telling the government, label them as terrorists.
That's something we can't forget is that closeness between the CEOs and the bank.
And then without any due process then, same thing, no due process now.
And like it happening to me, it just really feels like obviously a huge violation.
You get a letter in the mail and you have no recourse, not even a one, two, three strikes you're out.
It's just you're out.
And we rely on these online banks and banking in general for our day-to-day activity.
And basically you're not invited into polite society when they do this.
Yeah, you know, there's this increased digitization of how we do commerce, how we do business, how we interact with retailers.
But, and it is convenient.
Let's be completely honest.
It is convenient to just take out your phone and go, boop, and you're done.
But we're trading a lot of freedom away when we do that because all of a sudden, just like that, you don't have access to your cash because you've bought into this state of convenience.
You don't even have to carry a wallet anymore.
Everything's on your phone.
But then pretty quick, because somebody doesn't like your politics or you run afoul of the government who wants to paint you as a terrorist, all of a sudden, your life savings are just locked away from you.
I mean, it's a terrifying thing.
And I've heard stories of people during the Freedom Convoy, the fear that they lived in that their bank account could be seized every single day and thinking, how am I going to feed my kids?
How am I going to pay my mortgage?
And then there were those people that it actually happened to.
Did the bank ever, have they offered you an explanation or at least an excuse?
I'll say explanation, but what I mean is an excuse for doing this.
And I posted about this.
You know, obviously it's a bit hard to explain things on Twitter or online.
But the last interaction was kind of my third strike in Europe with the Royal Bank.
So it was the third time my bank account was frozen out of the blue.
And I had to, I called and then they said, you have to go in.
And I had to beg to get access back to my bank account.
Like it's me, transactions are valid um, you know, please unfreeze it.
And just, I was always met with this disdain and I, you know I don't know where that came from, but it was always unpleasant and I had to fight and advocate for myself uh, which i'm fine doing obviously, but I expect it when it's my own money and my bank and we I thought we had a contract that you know, i'm the customer and we have this equal relationship.
It certainly never felt that way, and so this time I actually was at a bitcoin conference in Calgary and was inspired to buy a bit more bitcoin.
I made two transactions in a row to in two days and on the second one, um bank, the bank froze my bank account without notifying me, and that's also a frustration.
If you're gonna, you know, claim to be the virtuous one and may want to make sure that uh, i'm not being scammed, and thank you for that, I appreciate it, but maybe let me know that you've also frozen access to my account.
That would be the first thing uh, without knowledge.
So I go to do a transaction no access.
I call um.
They say I have to go in.
I went into the UH bank and talked to the teller and then they had to call the fraud department.
Letter Exposed Crypto Crime00:02:38
And then this is where and I posted the interaction, because then the fraud department made this young man ask me a series of questions, including um did, did you have to download software on your computer?
How long have you been doing?
And i'm just like, i'm not a child, I am a professional.
I have a young gentleman.
He was lovely other people in the bank not, so I have to say he was really lovely and i'm just like I, I it was so uncomfortable and so unnecessary and that I recorded it and I posted that.
Uh, he went back to the fraud department on the phone.
I waited there like the criminal that I was, and then at the end of it he said, okay, your bank account is in order.
Just be careful in the future with crypto.
And i'm like again, unnecessary lecturing.
And then I got the letter a couple weeks later, buying crypto isn't illegal.
You're not committing a crime by buying crypto.
I mean, I guess you might be committing a?
Uh, a crime against the sensibilities of the big banking system by trying to go outside of it, but it's not a criminal activity to buy crypto.
Yeah, and that's where I took offense too, because I well are, what are you buying with it?
And i'm like well, you know what it's kind of.
None of your business.
And so of course, that's where it, you know, escalates when they're making these demands of me and i'm like I know you don't have the ability, the right to be asking me these things, and so i'm not willing to share that information with With you.
That's just how it's going to be.
And so, anyway, but they would not let me access my bank account until I answered those questions.
And then apparently, that was too much for them.
And then the letter came in the mail.
So I think the letter came because you exposed what they were up to.
Like, I think the fact that you posted your conversations with them yesterday.
It was only today.
Yeah, yesterday before you did it.
Because people asked for context, and I'm like, all I have is this.
I wasn't, I just recorded it because I was so uncomfortable.
I never posted it.
I wasn't intending to do anything with it.
And then when this letter came, I think I said right from the start, I didn't even know what to do with the letter.
I just felt so helpless, basically.
And I'm like, I'm going to put this on social media.
And it took a life of its own.
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Yeah.
I mean, and I see now that you have till the 18th to move all your funds, take your business somewhere else.
I'm worried that you're going to have a tough time finding another bank that will do business with you now, right?
Because I mean, they all collude.
We saw that during the convoy.
Yeah, well, thankfully, like I said, after that incident, I knew that relationship was not a pleasant one and it wasn't one that I really wanted to continue.
So I have set up a bank account with Bow Valley Credit Union and they have been lovely.
So that's been great.
And so, you know, I wasn't rushing to make any changes.
And it's also just a big hassle.
So I guess I'm just going to have to hurry up with making those changes.
And so I guess that's what's next for you.
You're moving over to a freedom-minded credit union, Bow Valley.
We like those guys over there.
Pretty open-minded to the idea of your money being your money and your opinions should not debank you.
Very controversial.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How very 10 years ago, very mainstream, but not in 2025 Canada.
But I guess what's next for the people that were debanked during the Freedom Convoy or the people who have gotten similar letters as you.
And you can make the inference that it has something to do with their politics.
And, you know, people have forgotten Farm Credit Canada denied farmers credit and they never actually explained why, but documents show that it was related to their support of the Freedom Convoy.
They actually didn't even have to donate to the Freedom Convoy to have their credit denied for political reasons.
What happens for those people now?
Like you're a lawyer, you found a great bank that you can work with, but what happens to all those other people who were denied their right to political free speech for fear of being debanked?
Yeah, really good question.
And I think it really goes to where this country is heading at the moment and what people are willing to do about it.
You know, there's people.
The one thing is that when you push people so far is people are creative.
They're thinking outside the box.
And I think that is good.
I think in Canada for a while, we've been quite comfortable with things.
And so nobody was pushing the boundaries and the box.
So now I think people are looking at alternatives during the COVID era.
It started with healthcare.
People were recognizing there was an issue here that they were being denied access.
So I think in the end, the more tyranny pushes people away, the more people become resilient.
And I think that that's also a good thing.
It's really exposing what's going on in this country.
And I, because I sue the government, I see it a lot.
And it's just, you know, lots of people don't realize how public sector in Canada, and, you know, I'm not happy saying this, but it is not serving the public.
And we really have to open our eyes up to that.
And it's not hard to see when you look around and the public services that are provided to us are failing us and we're just happily paying more.
We really have to come to terms with the fact that something is not right.
We need to hold our elected officials to account, demand what's going on behind the scenes there, demand some accountability and transparency.
I think that would really help the public at a minimum.
Yeah, you see, like Bull Valley Credit Union, you see these alternative institutions popping up to address the problems with the legacy institutions.
While I have you, I want to talk to you about the elephant in the room, and that is the sentencing arguments underway right now with Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
Not just the longest, but I think the most expensive nonviolent mischief trial in the entire Commonwealth.
In a normal country, these two wouldn't see the inside of a jail cell.
The Crown wants seven and eight years respectively for Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
Also, want to leave Chris Barber unable to support himself and his family by crushing Big Red, his iconic truck.
I did some research.
These are in line with the sentences received by the Toronto 18.
So terrorism-related sentences for mischief, because I think the Crown wants to treat these two as terrorists, even though that's not what's happening.
But I want to get your take because you were in the Public Order Emergency Commission advocating for the truckers.
You're really there from the very beginning.
What do you see here?
What's your take?
Well, it goes to everything we've been talking about: who is the public servant and institution serving?
It's certainly not the public.
They are serving and protecting themselves, the system, the bureaucracy, and that's what this is.
If you look at crime went down in Ottawa, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber were interacting with the police on a daily basis.
They were setting up meetings with city officials.
Everyone else abandoned them.
All elected officials and anybody in power with the police abandoned them.
And they mismanaged the entire protest.
And these two individuals are being blamed for elected officials failing, policing officials failing, and a general mismanagement of a protest.
Citizens in Ottawa should be rightfully mad at elected officials and the policing department, not Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.
They were just the convenient pawns.
Yeah.
And I think at the end of the day, where else are you supposed to protest the federal government, if not Ottawa?
I think there's a lot of bureaucratic class grossed out by the fact that blue-collar people went to their fancy, well-kept city.
Us Albertans, us Westerners, us blue-collar people, we should stay out of their bureaucratic safe space.
Yes, we're yucky.
We have to stay out of their safe space.
There's a lot of that.
They felt invaded by their fellow Canadians.
They seem to forget that there are lots of different kinds of Canadians, and they think Ottawa is just for their kind of Canadian.
Well, and the way you describe that, can you wonder at all why there's such a growing movement of Alberta independence?
It's like, okay, clearly we're not aligned.
Clearly, you're not interested in welcoming us into this kind and inclusive Ottawa you proclaim to have.
And just it, you know, Albertans and Westerners are rightfully frustrated.
It just is the next step.
I would argue we're culturally incompatible and that's okay.
Eva, how do people find out more about the work that you do?
I know you have a podcast.
You encourage conversations, which is something we're not allowed to have anymore with each other, according to the fancy people.
So how do people find out more about what you're up to and learn more about your story?
Because I think we're going to learn more about your debanking in the coming days and hours.
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Yeah.
Well, you can find me on X at eChipiac.
That's where I post most of my stuff and on other social media.
And just while I'm here too, I'm also anything related to the two class actions I'm involved in.
That's suing the government, one for the business restrictions in Alberta and one is on behalf of vaccine injured, the way, again, the government has treated these two groups that have been legitimately harmed by the government directives and mandates.
And that is all.
You can find all that information on Rath and Company.
We regularly post updates, but I have a little website, just chippickout.ca, where you could find more about me.
But I'm pretty easy to find if you put my name in.
I didn't ask for this.
Nobody ever does.
Eva, thanks so much for the work that you do on behalf of Canadians who've had their rights violated at the hands of the state.
It's important work.
And it's important that what happened isn't memory hold by the people who control what his, who think they control what history is.
Yeah.
Agreed.
Well, thank you for having me so much and keep doing what you're doing.
We will.
Thank you, Eva.
Stay with us.
your letters to Ezra unceremoniously read by me up after the break last portion of the show is always yours we We exist only because of you.
We will never take a penny from any level of government to hold them to account, to do the journalism that we do.
So of course we care about what you think about the work that we do.
So we take your viewer feedback, your letters to Ezra.
On my regular Wednesday night show, I do the last segment viewer feedback.
So the viewer feedback today comes from Ezra's reporting at the sentencing hearing.
The sentencing arguments are being heard for, as I said, with Eva Chipiak, Tamara Leach, and Chris Barber, the two leaders of the entirely peaceful anti-mandate Freedom Convoy back in 2022.
And Ezra's out there on the streets with the big, beautiful Revel News billboard truck.
And I went over to the comment section on YouTube to see what you guys had to say.
So Alec Turek, 433 says, the Freedom Convoy gave me and likely a couple million Canadians hope during a dark tyrannical moment in this country.
I was uplifted by the thousands that came out during the frigid winter to show solidarity and support for those of us that dared to stand up against the vaccine madness mandate.
I've heard that over and over again over the last three years that when people saw those trucks rolling and the convoy get bigger and the crowds get bigger and bigger coming out to watch the convoy, people had the scales fall off their eyes because they knew something was wrong, but they didn't know how many other people also felt that same way.
But because the government kept us apart, stay home to stay safe, you didn't really know how many other people felt the same way as you.
It sort of lifted the gaslighting of the government.
Hantae Weekee 1215 says, I cried when the Freedom Convoy rolled through Canada.
So proud.
I'm crying right now for the heroes who tried so hard to free us.
And we have other Canadians and our government treating them like this.
It's so devastating.
Freedom.
I can't believe how Canada changed so much.
Next one.
YouTube Free Speech Outlaw says, as an outsider looking in, this seems very ridiculous to me.
It seems as long as you're a lefty or have left-leaning protests, you can get away with whatever you'd like, no matter how violent it is.
But if you're right-leaning and have a peaceful protest and are semi-noisy, look, all protests are noisy.
You think those Hamas protests are quiet?
You get treated like a terrorist.
And if I were the judge, I would have said this is a waste of my time.
This case is null and void.
I would go after the government or the premier for wasting people's time.
Time and money.
This is the most expensive mischief trial in Canadian history.
Dearland AB 9833 says, I remember being so grateful to and for the truckers taking the actions they took.
Somebody had to do it.
And so often these movements are led by blue-collar people who just don't take it anymore.
That someone was standing up for us when most of us were feeling so helpless.
All the people cheering them on as they went down the road.
I was in tears of hope and gratefulness and the horrifying shock that I felt as our country's government did not even give them the grace to talk to them or us as citizens of our country.
I send you love.
I mean, that's the thing.
We weren't being listened to by the federal government.
So where do you go to talk to them?
Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau will meet with anybody.
He didn't meet with them.
I remember he met with Chief Chicken Noodle.
You remember her?
10 years ago plus, Chief Teresa Spence of Attawapiscat.
The Harper government was auditing her reserve for mismanagement of funds.
And she went on a hunger strike.
You know, like the houses in Adawapiscat were falling down.
She's rolling in an escalate.
Her and her boyfriend, who is the financial manager of the band.
And she went on a hunger strike, which was the fakest hunger strike ever because she didn't lose any weight during a hunger strike.
And she said she was sleeping in a tent or a teepee in a park in Ottawa.
She was going to a hotel every night.
And Justin Trudeau went to meet with her.
He went and sat in her teepee with her mid-afternoon because, you know, she wasn't there at night.
John Katzaros, 7340.
There have been at least 100 free Palestine protests in Ottawa with police escort since October 7th, 2023.
Someone should do a Freedom of Information request to find out how much has been spent for that policing.
I think it would be in the millions.
Thank you.
That's what I love to do around here at Rebel News is file freedom of information.
I'm writing a note for myself.
I want the policing costs.
And I will tell you, those protests have been violent.
Violent.
Chris Dacey, independent journalist, he was violently assaulted in Ottawa at the hands of these people.
Their bank accounts, not frozen.
No one's even wondered, where's all the funding coming from?
We have actually a government agency called FinTrack.
It's set up to track the proceeds of terrorism.
But the only time in recent memory that I can recall it being used was to go after the Freedom Convoy.
And we have quite likely Iranian-funded protests on the streets of the nation's capital every single week that are violent.
And FinTrack, I don't know, there's the tumbleweeds rolling through that office.
Mary Martins, 6805, the police in Ottawa knew the truckers weren't breaking any laws, so they allowed the protests to go on.
The only dangerous thing that we all saw on TV was the black clad terrorists that came on horses and trampled the protesters.
That surely was breaking Canadian laws.
The ones on horseback should be the ones facing time in jail for attacking a group of people who are peacefully protesting in a free country called Canada.
During the trial, they weren't able to find any of the protesters breaking any of Canada's laws.
Well, they were able to convict them of mischief, which is really just a catch-all of the police don't know what to do with you.
So mischief.
The protesters were and are Canada's heroes.
They don't deserve to spend one day in jail.
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Tamara spent 50.
Maybe this case should be taken to the United Nations to get some proper results without the horrible bias of Trudeau and now Carney's government.
This is a terrible slur on Canada, which used to be a country to be proud of.
Well, guys, that's the show for today.
Ezra should be back in the driver's seat tomorrow, depending on how long the sentencing arguments go on in Ottawa for Tamara Leach and Chris Barber to see his coverage and to support Tamara because we found out that she was not like she was paying out of pocket for bodyguards.
We thought that's outrageous.
You can go to helptamera.com.
That's it.
Let's keep Tamara and Chris and their families in our thoughts and our prayers if that's something that you do.