Ezra Levant and Drea Humphrey expose Canada’s CFIA culling 500 healthy ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, BC, since October 6th, despite no illness—police block footage with hay bales and hazmat suits. Farm owner Katie alleges trade politics over health, while RFK Jr. and critics like Pierre Pollya (Conservative) demand transparency. Rebel News’ 60+ stories contrast CBC’s bias, sparking global protest. The CFIA’s secrecy and armed enforcement reveal systemic overreach, risking public trust in livestock decisions. [Automatically generated summary]
It's October 6th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious f**k.
Hi, everybody.
I've climbed up a hill that's about a mile away from where the ostriches are.
And if you see, when I turn slowly, you can see some people along the road looking sort of like I am, trying to get a better vantage.
And over there, you can see this sort of like a prison, really.
Different rings of security.
The ostriches have no idea what they're in for.
They just think they're out there having a lark.
But you can see the tents set up by the CFIA.
And the whole point of the high hay bales, there's no scientific reason for it.
There's no health reason for it.
It's precisely so you have to go to great lengths to see the massacre that's about to happen.
It's why the police put in a no-fly zone overhead, banning any drones.
I don't know why the police would do political errands like that.
I understand police wanting to keep the peace.
But in this case, you have the RCMP providing a protective ring around the CFIA.
And they're not building a protective ring.
They're building an optical ring so you can't see through it.
As soon as the courts approve, there will be hundreds of birds killed very quickly.
And the CFIA wants that to be done in secret.
That's why they illegally blurred and cut the surveillance cameras.
That's why they brought in those massive bales of hay and that's why they're building an optical solution, not a medical solution, a political solution.
I'm going to head on back down.
Hi, everybody.
Ezra Levant here.
I'm standing above the ostrich farm on a bit of a hill, zooming in on my camera.
And you might be saying, what are all those things?
It looks like sort of a castle made of bales of hay.
And then there's a black fence.
And you can see those little dots are the ostriches.
You can see some police vehicles.
Those tents are from the Canada Food Inspection Agency.
And what we're looking at here, and you can see some people have stopped on the road.
Okay, so this is the back section of the farm here that we, where we have the ostriches.
So basically from this pole right here where the tent is, going this way, we have access that we can see the birds that are in here.
Once you go past that white tent, you can't see anything at all.
The other concern that we had, like on the other side of there is the camp that we're set up at.
One of the concerns we had is one of the ostriches turned around and laid an egg three days ago.
Oh, yeah.
And they haven't even so much as went and picked it up.
They're saying that this is a biohazard, but yet at the same time, they're doing nothing to actually keep the biohazard under control.
Like, why would you leave an egg, you know, out in the open if it was that much of a concern?
There is a freezer in the barn, from what I've understood, that they are supposed to collect the eggs and put them into.
So again, they're not following protocol or safety standards on that standpoint as well.
And we have police.
Hang on.
Can you get a ticket for that just to let you know?
Okay.
Come and get it.
Has been working with the farm, so.
Because of everything that happened with Katie and Karen and them being arrested, the way that it works now is Jeff or Dave has to bring the electrolytes down, hand it off to the liaison RCMP, the RCMP, then turn around and take it down to the CFIA.
They administer the liquids and then they turn around and bring the bag up and then it gets passed off to Jeff again.
And then Jeff has to bring it up to the house so that it's cleaned and started all over.
So this is part of the farm here where you can see this is some of the RCMP set up out in the field over here.
So they turn around and go in this way.
There's a little entrance up at the top where they can make their way in through the back.
So there's a field entrance here so they can go straight up the tree line here and go through the back of the ostrich farm is the way that it works.
And then we were over on the other side so it goes right over to the other road where we did the U-turnout, which is quite a ways over.
So there's a lot of room here, like I said, for the birds.
And again, you know, if it was all about safety and protocol, they could turn around and say, okay, this is what you have to do to keep your birds.
Like I said, they could turn around and put, go up like 15 foot.
We do this for elk anyway, where we have 18-foot fences and stuff.
So we could turn around and put an 18-foot fence up and then put net over top or whatever needs to be done so that we don't have wild birds coming in.
And that would turn around and alleviate them saying, well, you know, it's passed through birds, wild birds and such.
So this is the liaison.
If you focus over here, they are actually mating.
You can see Karen and Katie talking to them at this point.
So let's move up a little bit further, Jeff, for Jimmy's.
Okay.
Well, I am here with Brenda Belanger, who has come in from, well, you're originally from Ontario, but you're in Alberta now.
I'm in Alberta now.
You know, a lot of people have come in from across the country.
I want to ask you, what does ostrich sheriffs mean?
What's an ostrich sheriff?
The ostrich sheriffs means that we are out here doing filming and sending information directly to the family, as well as we have our eyes open for any type of infiltration that's coming through.
You know, again, we're standing in unity and we are being proactive.
So we do have people that's coming through.
And in order to get, there's also an auction going on for stockings as well.
And you get one of these stickers.
But in order to get the stickers and the actual pins, you actually have to turn around and get a hug.
You have to turn around and get hugs.
I've been hugged quite a lot.
And it's not just because I'm sort of squishy.
There's been a lot of hugs going around today.
We're joking around.
And you just sort of, I think that's sort of a way of saying you're sort of a deputy volunteer, is that right?
Sure.
But let me show you, there's some real law and order.
I already showed folks some of the police, but apparently there's a $200,000 fine and six months in jail if they draw blood.
Isn't that crazy?
If they test their own birds.
And here's another sign.
Zero of 399 ostriches are being tested in eight months.
And that's the crazy thing is that these bureaucrats have come in from Ottawa.
They want to kill all the birds because they say they're a menace.
The farm says test them.
The government says no testing allowed or you'll get a fine.
The ironic part is I'm a farmer as well.
And what I'm seeing from a farm standpoint is the fact that they're cherry picking.
They are honestly cherry picking.
We have animals like sheep and goats and horses that actually have disease that is transmittable to humans, but we don't mass call.
You just take out the animals that are infected.
Well, what we have to do is we quarantine the whole farm.
Okay, I'll use the horses as an example with strangles.
We turn around and we have to basically disinfect our farm daily.
Every water bucket, every heat bucket, until it's cured.
So it's all killed.
But they're not killed.
And then we have to turn around after we've had all of the animals healthy, or what seems healthy.
They have to come in for three months and test these animals to make sure that there is no other cases before the animals can even leave our farm.
Well, would you look at that?
A couple of frisky ostriches.
Isn't that fun?
But what's all this?
What's all that?
Well, that's police line, do not cross, because if we turn around a little bit, there's one, two, three, four police cars, a whole bunch of cops not letting us get any closer to the ostrich.
And those ostriches have no idea what's coming for them.
If the court system does what I fear it might do, every single bird in this farm is going to be killed.
The RCMP won't do the bird killing.
They're here to stop the hundreds of citizens that have come out in support of the birds from interfering with the cull, which is being done at the hands of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, an Ottawa-run bureaucracy.
The cops are here basically to stop the people from tearing the Ottawa bureaucrats to shreds.
Bizarrely, though, the cops seem to abide law-breaking from the food inspection agency themselves, including disabling the surveillance cameras that the farmers put up.
And astonishingly, the food inspectors have set up huge barricades so that when they do the killing of these hundreds of birds, it will evade the cameras of these citizen journalists.
It's a bad faith exercise all around, but for at least now, those birds are frolicking.
Hi, everybody.
Ezra Levant here at the ostrich farm in central BC that is under siege by, I would estimate, 50 RCMP officers and a smaller contingent of agricultural bureaucrats who are the actual kill force that have come to, well, massacre, if you want a hostile word, hundreds of birds because almost a year ago, a couple of them had the sniffles.
They got better though, and all the birds have what's called herd immunity, literally.
But still, the government seeks to kill every one of them.
Even though the farm says they're all healthy, we're happy to test them.
That's part of the madness here.
But I want to show you the popular response because it really does remind me of the trucker convoy.
I don't know if you can see, I'll hold the camera up there.
And this isn't even a full turnout.
This is who we have right now, but the number waxes and wanes every day.
Lots of homemade signs and t-shirts and stickers, discovery over destruction.
Ostriches are hostages of the CFIA.
Herd immunity ignored.
There's lots of artwork as well.
That's actually quite well done.
There's funny t-shirts too, messages of all sorts.
I mean, this is truly a grassroots reaction.
Love wins.
Beyond the divide.
Unity.
Ostrich Lives Matter.
You will regret what you're doing.
Freedom.
Save ostriches, save ourselves.
Only evil comes after the innocent.
Please come join us.
Save the ostrich.
Science, the cure.
Feathers need freedom.
If your child got sick in your family, would you kill the whole family?
That's pretty brutal, but that's what we're talking about here.
No farmers, no food.
CFIA prepares for cult.
Protect our farmers.
The whole world is watching.
That, I can tell you, is true.
Facts, not fear.
We are healthy.
We are strong.
We are beautiful.
We demand testing.
We demand the truth.
And that's the thing.
The farmers have said, look, these birds are fine.
Look at them.
Here's a few of them going for a bit of a run.
Look at that.
They have no idea what's coming for them.
I hate to say it.
Anyhow, people here have been camping out.
Our friend Tamara Leach was here the other day with a concert.
It really has a peaceful, earthy vibe.
Here's some more Every Child Matters.
And these are the names of different ostriches.
I'm told that the ostriches have names.
Why not?
Your pets have names.
Farmers sometimes give their cows names.
Save the ostriches.
These are different names of hostriches.
You can see of ostriches.
Excuse me.
Look at them.
Here's one going back and forth.
They're funny critters.
And because they're so big, they've got a personality.
And you can see why people have grown attached to them.
Now, one of the reasons for these tall structures, if you can see this scaffolding here, and then there's a scissor lift, I think that's what they call that orange device there.
It's because, like I mentioned earlier, the government has set up these very tall line of sight barricades.
If nothing to do with health, nothing to do with science or safety, have everything to do with stopping people from filming the massacre of the birds.
They've even put in place a no-fly zone to stop people from sending drones or helicopters.
That's got nothing to do with health and safety.
It's got everything to do with this.
It's a political exercise and everybody knows it.
Here, the only difference between us is your enemies across coming align.
So they actually look at you in the eye.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will not come to the fence, will not look at us in the eye.
And that is cowardice.
Look at us in the eye.
You tell us that that animal is doing well.
You look at us in the eye.
I got one more question, if you don't mind me asking.
What is this device here?
I think I know.
I think I know, but help me out.
Alberta, okay, so they cut our surveillance out here at the farm, as you probably are aware.
They went in, they used tree trimmers, those big long tree trimmers.
So the company out of Alberta called Alberta Portable Surveillance Solutions has provided us surveillance.
As well as the internet, they blocked us.
So this is all run off of sterling.
And this is just one of the companies that have supported the farm.
We also have the porta potties that are absolutely everywhere.
They've been donated to us.
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They're coming in and cleaning them out for us for free as well.
It is absolutely amazing considering there's probably a good 12 to 15 of them here on the farm.
They don't want those three.
No, and they're coming in for free and they're dumping in for us because they're supporting.
They are local farmers supporting farmers.
Sunbelt was another one that was absolutely amazing.
They turned around and they had a contract.
They decided that they did not want any part of the contract.
They were looking at the future and the fact that this is their community.
Wow.
So thank you, Alberta Portable Surveillance.
Yeah, for sure.
This has been amazing.
We have two of them.
We have this one here.
We have another one down at the end.
Wow.
They're not an egg yet.
No.
They're making a mess.
We've been clean, sanitized.
Did you get a review in our kitchen?
These are our wonderful ladies that do the cooking for us.
This is Ezra Levant.
Hi, how are you?
What you cooking?
I don't know buddy, but we'll get you at eight.
Ezra Levant here at the Ostrich Farm.
I'm with Staff Sergeant Chris Clark of the RCMP, who I really appreciate.
You've come down to give me some information.
I know you've spoken to my colleague Drea Humphrey.
I appreciate that.
Rebel News, our motto is telling the other side of the story, and we're sympathetic to the ostrich farm and even the ostriches.
But it behooves us to get your side of the story if the police indeed have a side.
Maybe you could start by telling us who's here on behalf of the RCMP and what your mandate is.
Yes, well, so in any situation where there's protest, we are an impartial party.
So in this particular case, we're on site at the request of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
And our role here specifically is public safety to keep the peace and to enforce the law if necessary.
Now, I spoke to some of the other officers.
They're coming in from pretty far afield.
I mean, it looks like a pretty big operation.
Are you at liberty to disclose how many RCMP are involved?
We don't speak to the numbers specifically for operational security reasons.
What I can tell you is there are a number of different support units under the critical response unit here.
So overall operations is conducted by critical response unit, which responds to such things as wildfires, floods, things of that nature, as well as protests.
Those support services that you may have seen over the last couple weeks, we have remote-powered aircraft system, obviously.
We've got some medics here, among others.
So to ensure that we don't compromise public safety in any one community, we bring in officers from across the province.
Looks like a pretty big operation.
One officer said more than 30, and you just described other, you know, the ambulance, which I think I saw drive by.
How long have you guys been out here?
Is it a couple weeks now?
So we arrived early morning on September 22nd.
Okay.
And we will remain on site until CFIA completes their business.
Can I ask, maybe you don't know the answer, who's paying for that?
Because you guys, I'm guessing there's some overtime.
I'm guessing there's some hotels and restaurants.
And even if it is just 30, and I suspect it's probably more, that's a pretty big operation.
I don't have the specific model.
With the CFIA, would they have contacted you or would, like, who said, hey, bring all the RCMP down?
Does the CFIA have the power to do that?
Or was that a decision by the Solicitor General maybe?
So to be clear, this is a CFIA operation.
Okay.
And so it's a search warrant that they've executed and we're here at their request.
Okay.
Now, this police line that says, you know, across the yellow tape there, can I ask why that tape is there and by what authority?
Okay.
So the property north of Longio Road here is subject to a search warrant under the Health of Animals Act.
But sure, you've searched it in the last two weeks now.
Okay, with any search warrant, we secure the property, search, or sorry, quote-unquote search.
That search could take days, weeks, months.
It depends on what needs to take place.
So with a, let's compare it, when we usually conduct a search warrant on, say, a residence for a drug investigation or a homicide, we will secure that property and only release it once we're completed what we need to do inside.
But are you gathering evidence?
I mean, really, it's just whether or not these four business 100 birds will be culled.
There's no, it's not like you're protecting evidence in a crime scene, is it?
I mean, I just feel like it's a turf grab that, I mean, I understand the power of the search warrant.
It just seems odd that it's being used to keep people out from a vast area when there's no sort of searching going on.
So, again, to be clear, this is a CFIA search warrant that they've executed.
Okay.
And we're here to secure the property until the conclusion of CFIA business.
All right, I have to study that a little bit more, and it sounds like you're pretty resolved on the matter.
Now, there's an enormous number of people here, and I understand it grows and waxes and wanes.
Obviously, you guys want to make sure there is zero injuries, zero conflict and confrontation.
I'm guessing maintain peace and order as your top goal.
Do you feel like you're going to be able to accomplish that?
Because there's some people who here are very passionate about the animals and might try some civil disobedience.
I don't have any information.
Some of these people here are very emotionally moved by these birds, and they feel there's a grave injustice.
What is your strategy for assisting the CFIA in a manner that does not cause human casualties?
So, as I mentioned earlier, our rule here is public safety, keep the peace and enforce law if necessary.
So, you mentioned this is a large operation.
We have a number of resources here.
It's a large property.
So, we're here to secure that property from intrusion or what have you.
Certainly, our goal is to have no conflict, no confrontation, no violence with respect to the protesters here.
That would be the ideal situation.
I can't say if there will be.
You know, based on what people are saying, we're prepared to make arrests if necessary, to enforce the law if necessary.
However, ultimately, we would rather make no arrests.
A week or two ago, a farmer nearby let two rebel news reporters get in a helicopter and take some images from above, which showed, I think, some interesting developments on the police side.
I understand that there's now a ban on drones and airplanes.
Is that accurate?
So, there was actually what's called a no-tam or a notice to airmen at the time that the helicopter was up last week.
However, it wasn't very big.
What was it?
The NOTAM.
So, it only goes to a certain elevation, and its radius is only so big.
So, we were aware of the helicopter.
It did not.
A helicopter could still observe if it was of a sufficient height.
Yes, currently.
The current NOTAM is unchanged to my office.
Would that allow certain drones to be used as well?
Do you know how high it goes?
Maybe it's not your department.
No, that's not a question for me.
I'm not an expert on drones.
The reason I'm asking is because it doesn't seem like a safety issue.
Seems like a you know, it could be but short of a sneakiness issue.
I saw some of the CFIA cops in full hazmat suits walking the farm with surveillance cameras, and I thought, what's that got to do with the health and safety of the birds?
And if they're bringing in these no-tam rules against drones, I'm thinking maybe a drone buzzing near a bird would upset it, but it seems to me like the food inspection agency are trying to do something in the dark and stop people from seeing it.
That's how it looks to me.
Am I wrong on that?
So we'll go to the no-tam.
And a no-tam is put in place for a police operation like this because we need to be allowed to have unfettered airspace.
So we will put drones in the air, we will have potentially helicopters in the air, and we need to be able to operate safely.
So that's strictly why the no-tam is put in place.
I can't speak to the questions about CFIA.
So whatever business they're doing, that's questions for them.
Is there a spokesman for the CFIA here?
So they have their own comms team.
I'm not sure.
I don't believe they're here, but they're answering questions through their board.
In a way, you're sort of in a pickle because you're not the guys doing the dirty deed, but you're the buffer and you're the ones most visible.
I've only been here briefly, and I haven't seen any CFIA.
Do they interact with the people here at all?
Well, they're operating within the search zone.
So that's mostly where they're focused.
And you are correct, we're the ones that are visible here.
So it's important to understand that this is a CFIA operation.
We're here simply to keep the peace, public safety, and if necessary, enforce the law.
If the owners of the farm tried to restart the surveillance cameras, would that be something that you would impede?
And again, I haven't spoken to them about this.
I'm just thinking for protecting people from intruding in the zone, I understand the search warrant.
It would be like a house that was a crime scene.
There's yellow tape, do not enter.
But when you deliberately take down security cameras, it's got nothing to do with a search warrant.
That's got to do with being sneaky.
Would you, as a police officer, stop the landowner from fixing those security cameras?
What do you mean to enter onto the property?
So this is all under, the property is secured now.
It's under a search warrant.
So they could go on without CFIA approval.
So for example, one of the owners was allowed on the other day to visit one of the ostriches that's injured.
Right.
But that would be with CFIA approval.
So not something for us to really speak to.
Do you follow what the CFIA is doing to see if there's anything that might be on its own illegal?
Or are you just sort of, like you say, it's a CFIA operation and you don't really get involved?
Like, because that seems to me that that is mischief.
That is beyond the scope of a search warrant.
That's political.
That's sneaky.
And I don't know if the RCMP would abide that.
Are you making sure that they don't take liberties or is that just not part of your mandate here?
Well, I think you need to look at the contents of the search warrant because that may very well be part of it.
I can't say.
So that's something to look into.
You know, as indicated, we're here to enforce the law.
So certainly if we were to witness an offense, then we would need to take action.
Last question for you.
How's the morale of the RCM?
Because, like you say, this is not your fight.
This is a CFIA fight.
This is Ottawa versus the locals.
Like, it's a very strange battle.
And in a way, I mean, look at you.
You're very much identified.
You haven't had your police.
You're the one butting up against these upset locals while the CFIA goes in incognito, has mats, covering license plate, et cetera.
That can't be fun.
Well, this is our job.
This is our duty.
We switched.
We don't know whether it's fun or not.
Maybe it's not the crappiest job you've had, but it's not the best.
So, over the past couple weeks, as you mentioned, the crowd has up and flow.
There's been increases and decreases.
There's been, you know, overall, mostly a peaceful crowd.
Has there been any moments?
Has there been moments when it wasn't peaceful?
You said mostly peaceful.
And I wouldn't say that it's not peaceful, just more words have been exchanged, right?
So, but we've built relationships over those two weeks.
I think PLT was, the police liaison team was down here earlier and has been engaging with the protesters for months.
So from what I've seen overall, the ball is pretty good.
Certainly, there's a lot of emotions here, as you said.
And because, I mean, animals are involved.
So anytime animals are involved, there's always going to be emotions.
It feels a little bit to me like the trucker convoy.
I was in Ottawa briefly, and there was a festival feeling, there was a grassroots feeling, a dissident feeling.
And I remember there was a calm before the storm.
The police were there, and it was pretty chummy until things changed, and then it got sort of brutal.
I sure hope that doesn't happen here.
I hope it's a happy ending.
Well, again, I can't really speak to what may or may not happen, right?
We're here to ensure the public is safe, to keep the peace, and to enforce the law if necessary.
So the CFI can continue to conduct our business.
Once that's concluded, we will no longer be required.
We're here to do that job until then.
All right.
Well, that's your motto: maintain the law, maintain the rights.
Staff Sergeant Clark, thanks for taking some time with me today.
No problem.
Take care. Come on.
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Well, we're going up on the scissor lift, which is like a movable elevator, and it's to get a better view of the ostriches.
Scissor lift!
What did you call it?
I called it a mobile elevator.
I knew it's called a scissor lift.
I, you know, I may not be a country boy anymore, but I know a scissor lift.
By the way, so when I used to come here, Ezra, you could see tons of ostriches that would come here.
They would visit with the people, they'd play, they'd mate.
And now it's just so scarce.
So they're not even with each other.
They're not with their farmers anymore.
They're separated from each other.
This is supposed to be a humane operation.
And it just doesn't look like that at all.
And the thing is, we don't even know what's going on because the CFIA's main exercise has been deception to hide their activities either by cutting off surveillance cameras or by building giant barriers out of straw and hay.
That's what makes this so weird.
And I tell you, there's different theories about what's going on.
Some of them, I think, might even be called conspiracy theories.
And it doesn't help when the government refuses to be transparent and does super weird things like cutting off surveillance cameras.
You know what?
It looks like bad faith.
When they came in with their hazmat suits from top to bottom, when nothing's sick, and it was just for theater, you can't treat people like they're dumb.
We've already lived through COVID.
We've lived through the BS and the deception.
It's like this government has learned nothing from the last five years.
Well, not only that, when they actually first came on day one, they weren't even wearing the hazmat suits, and people saw that.
People went online.
Wait, I thought they were sick and then they're all head from toe.
But you're right.
What is the average Canadian thinking when number one, everybody knows if an animal had a flu 10 months ago, they're not sick with that flu anymore.
But number two, like you mentioned, the state is blocking the farm's cameras so that they can't see.
It doesn't sit right with anyone.
I asked the RCMP about that.
I said, that surely wasn't in the court order.
That sounds like mischief.
And they say, well, it's not our mission.
Like, I think the police are in a pickle because the police are here to protect the bureaucrats.
And I can't imagine the police are happy about that.
Well, Sandrea, you've been covering this story really for months.
And it's growing.
I was in the States last week.
People were saying, what's up with those ostriches?
It's not as big as the trucker story was in 2022, but it feels like it's getting out there.
It's so unusual.
Why do you think this story has the legs that it does?
You're right.
It's reached apparently Holland, China, and of course the U.S. has been big speakers to this issue.
You know, they've been speaking out before many of the politicians who are in recent weeks.
And I think what really at the core is everybody loves animals.
Like most people actually just genuinely like animals.
And you can't vilify these animals.
You can't say they're far-right extremists like they did with the trucker convoy or they're anti-masks or whatever sort of rhetoric you want to use against them.
And I think everybody has respect for farmers too for the most part.
Right.
So you have that combination and then it's just fascinating what's been entangled in this story and it keeps increasingly so.
So you have the grassroots, a lot of them the freedom sort of member, but then you have just regular people because of that issue.
And then you have the trade issue coming in and the science.
It's all radical.
There's so many things.
And also, where is this going?
I never thought of it.
If they can kill a farmer's ostrich for no good reason, can they kill your pet?
And there's all sorts of your pet is not good for climate change.
Like there's all sorts of anti-pet stuff out there.
And I just don't understand what is it that's so burning in the heart of these bureaucrats if they won't retest these animals.
Like why?
And that's what I think baffles a lot of people.
Hey, tell me about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s role because I think that that surprised a lot of people.
What's going on there?
Right, the Health Secretary of the United States, RFK Jr., as well as head of Medicare and the NIH, they've all come out and said that these birds are worth more alive than dead.
Of course, they're seeing the opportunity in the science.
So after 2020, the farm switched from selling them for food.
And by the way, it's the Canadian Food Inspection Agency coming to kill their farm.
Yeah, because these aren't food animals.
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Exactly.
And their eggs were being used for anti-body viral therapeutic research, which even before it was on RFK Jr.'s radar, he had already said we want to move away from the LET vaccines was the wording he used for mRNA technology, which is what Moderma says.
So these birds, they're not for leather, they're not for meat, they're not for eggs, they are for testing an alternative to the mRNA vaccine.
Therapeutics, which is exactly what RFK Jr. said they want to shift into.
We're looking at things for the avian flu.
It would not surprise me if that was the motivation here.
Right.
So that was the U.S.'s motivation for getting involved.
And then, well, what is Canada's motivation for not saving this research?
And that's why the overlap with the Trucker Coinboy is there too, because it's about this big pharma loyalty, it seems.
Now you've been here and I feel like walking around you, you're like the mayor of this place.
I mean everyone respects your journalism.
You've spoken to almost everybody here.
I think you've really helped spread the word internationally.
How many stories have you done?
Probably 20.
Oh my gosh, see?
Or maybe more?
60.
60 stories for nine months.
Whoa, six.
You know what?
Just like Rebel News was the champion of the truckers and we helped tell the world the story.
60 stories.
I'm sorry I undercounted so much.
Though it was funny because at one point Ezra put the story in Slack and he was like, Drea, have you seen this?
Yeah, they cover against the sun show.
You know what?
I try and we've got so much journalism going on, but you were having such an impact and having some fun.
I thought I got to come and check it out with my own eyes.
And Rebel News is beloved here because they're not getting a fair shake from the CBC.
They're not getting a fair shake from a lot of institutions.
And so it is Rebel News that is getting their side of the story.
That's our motto, telling the other side of the story.
Telling the other side of the story.
And what I love is that there's so many just everyday people, which I feel like that's who I am.
I feel like Rebel just gave me a mic.
And I'm seeing other people here too, and everybody's got their cameras out.
And what's happening with this almost non-partisan issue we're seeing here is people are finding everybody.
They're finding Rebel News for the first time because they want to know the other side of the story to these ostriches.
And I think it was CDV made the fatal error of seeing that Katie was live streaming.
They said, oh, and she keeps live streaming.
And then sure enough, her live stream went way up the next day.
So I think that these birds have the power to break through the echo chambers.
That's very interesting.
Which is something we've been, you know, that has been the key to get other people to go, hey, you know, Rebels talk about things the mainstream media isn't.
And mainstream media let me think they found a sick bird here the other day, which is what was out.
Well, you know, because the bird was injured, because the RCMP flew a drone, spooked the bird, it got in trouble.
And the way I saw that headline, it was phrased as if the bird was sick instead of injured by the cops.
The CFIA, and intentionally, it seems, would just say it's injured.
And the mainstream media, which should know the background, should know that the farmers already said there was an injured bird.
So, you know, the value of people finding everyday people talking about this show and what's really happening and Rebel News, I think, you don't even know how measurable that is.
I'm so glad you're here.
Part of me wants to hope that it will have a happy ending.
But I've lived through COVID-2019, and I know that so many attempts at compromise or reason have failed.
So many lawsuits were thrown out by the courts.
And I don't want to be pessimistic because where there's life, there's hope.
And it's a miracle that these birds have survived so long because, and the cops have been here for weeks already.
I mean, just millions of dollars.
I don't know.
Are you optimistic?
I mean, I just don't know why a judge doesn't say, just test them.
Just test them because they're all healthy.
And if they're not, okay, now we have a new fact.
But we believe, we understand all these birds are healthy, have been for almost 10 months.
These birds are over 260 days, healthy and asymptomatic.
And you're right, it is a miracle.
So the journalists in me is, yeah, it's pretty grim.
But I keep coming here.
And every time I come here, it's because you think the birds are going to die and they're alive.
So I'm rooting for the miracle.
But you're right.
I think the biggest red flag is the fact that the CFIA hasn't came yet.
The fact that they've had, you know, even David Evie at one point saying something.
We have the Green Party saying, you know, why aren't you testing?
The fact that they know everybody is looking at this agency and saying, why won't you test them?
still have it is very concerning.
You're right.
You've got Pierre Pollya from the Conservative, David E. Beacher, the LDP, Elizabeth Nature, the Greens.
They've all, here's a quick clip of those different commentators from across the political spectrum, left from the hard left to the center right.
They're all on the same page.
Take a look at this.
What is your official stance on the ostriches in British Columbia and the culling order that they are facing?
Really incredible that the Liberals have caused so much because of Liberal incompetence, we're in this mess.
And when you have an incompetent government, you have messes like the inflation crisis, like the crime crisis, like the border crisis, like the investment crisis, like the fastest shrinking economy in the entire G7.
When you have an incompetent government, you get lots of these messes.
Wait, on the ostriches, sir.
Sir, you didn't say what your stance is on the ostriches?
Why won't you answer your stance on the ostriches?
I just did.
I said the Liberals are incompetent.
That's my stance.
As an ECMP, I'm just curious what your take is on the ostrich situation at Universal Ostrich Farms.
What's your party's position on that?
I wrote the Minister of Health, well, so long ago now, a very different Minister of Health, it was January 2025, that I wrote to say, look, can't we get the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to redo the tests?
That will remove a lot of the either anxiety, divisions.
One wants to know why not redo the tests.
It's not that difficult to redo the tests.
But CFIA is refusing.
So I think CFIA could help themselves potentially by doing independent testing.
Do these birds have traces of avian flu?
And it's become such a divisive issue.
I must say most of my constituents who write me want that ostrich cull not to happen.
And they want to, and I want to know, I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't happen, but why not get the evidence?
Why not, and this is our position as a party, why not redo the testing and verify the health of that flock of ostriches before engaging in what many see as animal cruelty.
And I can't imagine, this is absolutely astonishing to me, that an animal welfare issue in Canada has garnered the attention of MAGA-type billionaires in the United States, which makes me sympathize with the ostriches less.
But that doesn't matter.
What matters is we get our facts first.
And we don't have all the facts because CFIA has refused to do the testing.
That's why I think there's some shenanigans afoot.
And I am not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but the explanations we have just do not add up.
You know, I'm just here to visit.
I actually have to go back to Toronto very shortly, but I wanted to see with my own eyes what's going on.
I'm so glad I'm here.
Now, you have spent a lot of time here, and through the grace of our viewers, we have been able to crowdfund a little camper and a Starlink internet connection.
How long are you, like, you've got obligations back at home, but you've been here cumulatively for quite a long time.
Yes, a long time, sometimes a week at a time.
The bottom line is we're invested in this story.
We see the threat to Canadians when you have, like I said, the state covering up cameras, arresting farmers for wanting to feed their animals, and just not bending to the public, to international trade offers, to anything.
Rebel has to be here, and we have to tell the story, right?
So yes, it's been a sacrifice on my part, and I'm happy that now I'm going to have help from my colleagues.
It's been a massive operation, just like the massive operation with the police, the CFI, and who else knows, except it's not on the tax dollars.
Instead, it's from people like you, great people who are here like this who want us to be able to broadcast what's really going on.
And so people have been helping, and there are more, there are a lot more costs as my colleagues come.
So if you want to be a part of helping us do those stories, please go to save theostriches.com.
That's where you can chip in, and that's where you can find the 60 reports.
And I should point out, of course, we always screw to the GoFundMe they have for their legal fees, which are a lot.
It wasn't until I physically started traveling here that we did ask for help with our journalism because this is the only way we survive.
We need it.
Now, we've been facing the birds while we're talking, but the camera's been facing away.
I'm just going to rotate here just so people can see the incredible view that we've had.
We probably, I should have probably done the interview like this.
So you can see we're up high in the scissor lift and looking down at the birds.
They have obscured, they have built 10-foot-high haystacks to block the view.
Drea, thank you for coming here.
Thank you for, I mean, it's a bit of a stress on anyone's family to be away from home.
And I know that too, because I travel a fair bit.
So thank you.
And I see how beloved you are here.
And it really is fun to be a rebel, wear this rebel shirt here, because everyone loves rebel news because of your 60 outstanding journalistic exposés.
And I mentioned I was in Texas and people were asking me about it.
You've done more journalism on this than anyone else.
And it's that repetition and following the ins and outs of the story that has made this bloom.
And so if there is a public pushback that saves the ostriches in the end, I think that some of the credit goes to you.
Now, obviously, the farm itself, very courageous.
I really enjoyed meeting some of the folks here.
There's a certain charisma.
There's the whistleblowers that have been helping me and inform the farmers and the public of what's going on.
I mean, that's how a lot of people got here this time around, is because I was able to say this is when it's going down, and this is not a drill.
This is the real thing.
Right.
Well, let me just turn the camera one more time to look at the parking lot.
It really is like a festival.
And you know what was so interesting?
I was shown what's a gift.
The port-a-potties are a gift.
The cleaning of the porta potties is a gift.
Those solar-powered or diesel-powered surveillance towers to counteract the fact that the CFIA tried to destroy the surveillance.
It really is a fascinating cultural moment, political moment.
I use the word festival feeling because it really is like the Woodstock for freedom.
I mentioned it feels a little bit like the trucker convoy, and that's true.
Anyways, I'm up here on the scissor lift, and I think I should probably go back down to seeing it.
We're on the wallplay a little bit.
We look like we're holding the streets.
That's right, though.
But thank you very much for operating the scissor lift for us.
And we probably should have been wearing the harness, but we were just having fun.
Yeah, we're rebels.
We weren't working too hard.
So let's bring her on down to sea level and thank you, boss, for helping us.
Here we go down.
Yeah, there it is.
We're going down slowly but surely.
I'm getting the, it's a little bit jiggly.
There we go.
Thank you very much.
Well, there you have it, folks.
And if you want to support Drea's journalism and the fact that she's out here in an RV with a Starlink, so because there's still hotels close by, I should tell you that.
Public Health Mystery00:08:49
There's one.
It gets booked pretty fast when you have the support that they're getting.
And I have to be here because you can see from our coverage.
And it can happen at night.
Including at 4:30 in the morning.
There you have it, folks.
A good catch-up with our friend Drea Humphrey, who has carried this story for the whole world.
All right, we're back down.
Check us out at savetheostriches.com.
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
I'm in Edgewood, B.C. at an ostrich farm, the one that's been in the news of late.
You can see all the police vehicles here.
And I don't know if you can quite catch a glimpse of ostriches in the far background.
Of course, between me and the ostriches is this yellow police tape.
It is not a crime scene.
It is not a health zone.
The birds are healthy.
Almost a year ago, about 10 months ago, several of the birds got the flu, the sniffles, as I call it, but they got better and the entire herd got herd immunity.
There's nothing wrong with the birds.
And yet, the government, in the form of the CFIA, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, has ordered that every single one of the hundreds of birds here be killed.
Now, the farm has said, no, wait a minute, these birds are fine.
We'll even pay for the testing to show you that.
The government has said no.
In fact, bizarrely, the farm is not allowed to test their birds.
To do so could yield a jail sentence, if you can believe it, and certainly a fine.
There's been a standoff here because those Ottawa bureaucrats, I don't even know why the food inspection agency is involved.
These ostriches are not being raised for meat or for leather or for some of the uses of ostrich.
They're actually used to test therapies, not mRNA vaccines, but alternatives to that.
These birds may contain a therapy for different diseases.
And so some people think, well, maybe that's the reason that the government wants to wipe them out.
And maybe that's the reason why RFK Jr., the cabinet minister in Trump's administration responsible for health, has actually said he is uncomfortable with the proposed mass killing of the birds.
Anyways, that's my attempt at summarizing what's going on here.
Our reporter Drea Humphrey has been out here.
She's actually done 60 news stories about this.
And I believe that she is one of the reasons why this story has such international prominence.
Now, I've been standing with my back towards various police cars.
One officer told me that there's at least 30 cops on site.
I think it's much more than that.
There's a staging area where other more heavily armed police are based.
I talked to one cop for about a 10-minute conversation today.
And the thing is, the RCMP themselves are not the ones going in for the kill.
They're the ones being brought in to cause all these people who have camped out here at the farm to keep them away from the health bureaucrats, the food bureaucrats.
In other words, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is here to do the dirty work, and the cops are here to protect them.
Here's my conversation with a spokesman for the RCMP.
Well, I don't know if those answers were sufficient.
What's so crazy is the optics of all this.
Like I say, you can't really see the ostriches from here.
They have been moved and the CFIA has created artificial barriers.
You just move out of the way so they don't get driven over.
There's a lot going on on the ostrich pond.
Let me tell you that much.
The CFIA has created barriers with giant haystacks and they built fences with black plastic barriers, not for any health reasons.
There's no health reason to build a 10-foot hay bale fence.
It's for one reason only.
So the people who are here and other journalists, and they're mainly citizen journalists here, cannot observe the massacre when it comes.
Now I was invited to go up a hill overlooking, and we tried to use a telescope, but I couldn't get my cell phone to work with the telescope.
Here's some footage of what we could see from across the road on higher ground.
You can sort of see what they're building.
It's not for health.
It's not for medical.
It's not for a public policy reason.
It is to hide what they're doing.
Take a look.
That's not it.
There's so much theater involved with the CFIA.
They're wearing head-to-toe hazmat suits while everyone else here, including the RCMP, are dressed normally.
No one believes that these birds are ill.
I think the hazmat suit was for shock and awe so that the regime media could say, oh my god, the birds are sick.
But it's also to hide the identity of these disgraced bureaucrats who have come in from Ottawa to do something deeply unpopular.
I mean, imagine that.
It's so unpopular that the RCMP have had to bring in 50 cops, that's my estimate, from very far away.
There's not 50 cops in this part of British Columbia.
And what's so crazy is, as you know, Canada is in the middle of a crime wave right now.
And imagine taking 50 RCMP officers off more important work to come and be the personal escort for the CFIA.
That's super gross.
Yeah, so if they're not building hay bale barricades, if they're not doing hazmat suit public health theater, they're actually disabling the surveillance that the farm had up.
There's nothing in the law that gives them that power.
It's got nothing to do with public health.
They did that because they don't want their dirty deeds to be observed.
They've also brought in a flight ban so no drones can come in overhead.
And there were images of sensors and anti-drone technology.
I have no idea where they're even getting these.
I mean, does the CFIA have tens of thousands of dollars worth of anti-drone guns just laying around?
Or is this borrowed from the Canadian military?
What the heck is going on that there's this massive paramilitary operation?
Oh, you can see some of the birds behind me now.
Involved in the main to cover up journalism.
Like everything I've just described to you is about optics and PR.
Nothing to do with public health.
It's very weird, very weird.
I wanted to come here because my friend Drea Humphrey has been covering it and I wanted to show her support and see with my own eyes what I see.
And it was really fun.
She really is a little bit like the mayor of this place.
Here, here's my conversation with Drea.
We actually got up on this scissor lift, which is like a mobile elevator.
Here's my conversation with Drea.
I tell you, she's doing a great job.
And we actually got a camper for her to stay in, like an RV and a Starlink.
Now, you see these, there's a lot of signs around.
And I took a little stroll down the alley because there's some wonderful signs.
They're all homemade.
This really is a grassroots moment.
I have to say, it reminds me a little bit of the Truckers in 2022.
Here's my little walk down the alley of signs earlier today.
Very, very interesting.
I had a lot of chats with a lot of great people, and they love Rebel News, and they love Drea simply because we're telling the other side of the story, and that is our motto.
And the CBC is outrageous in their propaganda.
They're liars, and it's interesting to hear the farms say so.
Here's my conversation with the boss of the farm earlier today.
By the way, that's a reference to a conversation I had with her.
I think Drea has the footage for that.
I sure hope so.
Well, that's my report from the ground here in Edgewood, British Columbia.
I really enjoyed the trip.
I flew from Toronto to Kelowna, rented a car, drove, and I have to do the whole thing in reverse because I've got to get back to our world headquarters.
But our friend Drea will continue, and in the days ahead, Sidney Fazard will be joining from Calgary, and then Sheila Gunread will be coming down early next week.
So we intend to follow this story to its conclusion.
We have a few tricks up our sleeve too that I'm not going to divulge now, but you'll see them, I hope, journalistically in the days and weeks ahead.
There's something very wrong in Canada when you have 30, 40, 50 police taken off of fighting crime and put onto fighting ostriches who are completely healthy.
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There's something super wrong when the government says you may not even test your own birds with your own money.
There's something super wrong about that.
There's something super weird about this whole thing.
And people here know it, and it makes them uncomfortable.
What is this a test run for?
I've seen different theories, and that's the thing.
Speculation abounds because the government is so non-transparent.
They're so opaque.
Translation, they're lying to you.
We're going to keep on the story.
My friend Drea Humphrey will lead our coverage.
Others in the Rebel team will circulate through.
If you want to help cover Drea's camper vanity, she's on the RV with a starlink and other expenses of just being here, food, water, whatever, go to save theostriches.com.
All right, I'm going to go back to Toronto now, but I will not put my head in the sand.
Goodbye, everybody.
Bye.
Hey, Katie, what's up?
Um, so you know, we put the signs up today to show us a picture of our head, right?
They're not too big, she's just doing the kick of death.
They're not too big there, they haven't taken care of her.
I know, just let me speak.
I'm just gonna give PLP.
If we would have just been allowed to care for her, she'd be okay.
She's dying alone.
She's dying alone right there.
We have the footage.
She's dying alone.
We would have never done that.
Our birds don't die alone.
They're loved by us.
They're cared.
She's alone, laying there, dying right there.
We can't touch her.
We can't be with her.
They're not with her.
They know she's dying because we did those finishes.
She's dying alone.
This is the most painful thing.
They're right there.
They're right there.
We're not aggressive.
We're not hurting anybody.
We just want to give her love.
They've been loved for 35 years by us.
We would have never let them die alone.
She's dying by herself because we are being punished by lying by this tape.
We're being punished.
It's not fair.
She's dying for being healthy.
She's dying because we spoke up.
She's dying because of trade politics.
She's dying alone.
And we would have never known if we didn't just get a visual because they're lying and they're hiding.
They're hiding behind this.
They're hiding behind you.
They're hiding.
And that's not right.
This organization is hiding behind your power.
This organization is hiding behind your power.
You got a stock ads.
This is cruelty.
This is animal cruelty.
Please, please stop them.
Please stop them.
Hold the bench.
Please stop them.
Please let us just be with her.
Let us just be with her.
I think it's beyond treatment now.
Please be with her.
These are our family.
Yesterday she was moving around and inspecting and getting up and like family doesn't just go in public and saying that the alert thing we've ever loved she's dying alone kicking her head back David This is so unfair.
This is animal closure Canadian food inspection.
HIGH is hiding behind her yellow tape.
They're hiding behind really important power.
They're hiding.
They're cowards.
They're cowards in shoots that don't even follow their own policy.
Exactly what's going on behind them?
They're lying, they're lying to you, they're lying to me.
So I can do that.
I'll get the message right that the organization is lying to us, to you guys, to this country.
Please just tell them.
Please just tell them.
We just want to be with her, even Dave, just someone to go be with her at the last moment, if she's not caught already, just to put her to rest.
So we can't.
Why should she lie there?
They know it, they know it, but they're hiding.
They're hiding behind us.
No they're, they're not hiding.
It wouldn't hurt for anything.
Thanks for your help.
What do you think?
Do please help me?
Are you live streaming officer?
Are you uh, live streaming?
Are you just filming our faces?
Yeah, What are you filming for?
Why are you hiding your own face?
Let's leave this okay, please.
But Katie doesn't want that.
All right, Katie does not want that, right easy.
I'm even after.
No, it doesn't matter, you should ask for apart.
No, it doesn't matter, i'm not taking pictures of them.
I'm not talking.
Katie doesn't want this.
Think about what she wants.
This isn't gonna help the farm.
It's not your fault.
or don't blame them Have you guys made up the RC or something?