Ezra Levant examines Birmingham’s demographic shift, where the Muslim population surged from 20% to 40%, and indigenous Brits became a minority, while anti-Semitism rose despite no Jewish presence. He details how pro-Palestinian activists pressured Aston Villa to cancel a match with Maccabi Tel Aviv, leading to heavy police protection for a tiny Jewish counter-protest. Levant links this to "soft ethnic cleansing" and compares it to Mississauga and Dearborn’s politicized tensions. Meanwhile, he condemns Canada’s CFIA and RCMP for slaughtering 400 healthy ostriches—like Frank (35 years old)—ignoring science and farm owner Katie’s pleas, despite earlier H5N1 claims being debunked, exposing systemic overreach and moral failures. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm in the British city of Birmingham, the second largest city after London.
You may know Birmingham from a popular TV drama called Peaky Blinders.
It's sort of a crime drama and a very charismatic lead actor.
That's not what Birmingham is like today.
Let me tell you what Birmingham is like today.
There was a story in the newspaper the other day about local politicians here in Birmingham who are also running for public office back in Bangladesh.
That's where their heart is.
And in fact, there's lobbying for the British government to help pay for new airports in Pakistan.
I guess what I'm saying is it's British in name, but I'm not sure if it's British in essence.
I mean, the indigenous British population of Birmingham is almost a minority, and the Muslim population is growing at a very rapid rate.
In the last census, it was about 40%.
The census before that, it was about 20%.
I have no doubt whatsoever that that trend will continue, both through natural birth rate, but also through mass immigration from places like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and elsewhere.
And that has started to infuse itself in the politics here, and that's what democracy is like.
If you let in millions of people from Pakistan and Bangladesh, don't be surprised if your political system starts to resemble it.
And one of the things about Pakistan and Bangladesh, even though those countries have zero Jews living in them, is that they're inherently anti-Semitic.
It's just a fact.
And so the local politics here in Birmingham has taken that turn.
And so when there was an exhibition game in the Europa League, that's what it's called, the Europa Football League, between Aston Villa, which is the name of their local football team, and an Israeli football team called Tel Aviv Maccabi, or Maccabi Tel Aviv,
the local politicians decided to pounce and to protest and to try and get that game cancelled, saying, incredibly, that the Jewish fans of this Tel Aviv team were violent and posed a threat to the Muslim population here in Birmingham.
You heard me right.
I did not invert that.
They actually said that the Jews were going to riot and put the Muslims in danger.
Kier Stahmer, the Prime Minister, said the decision's wrong.
He said, we won't tolerate anti-Semitism on our streets.
You welcome the decision.
Who's right?
Well, he's clearly wrong.
Nobody should tolerate anti-Semitism.
That's a position which is consistent across the whole House of Commons, for example.
Every parliamentarian will stick with that statement.
We all condemned what happened in Manchester.
That was clearly anti-Semitic.
But we cannot conflate anti-Semitism when we look at what some of these fans did in Amsterdam in 2024.
The vile chance of racism and hatred, the chance that there are no schools left in Gaza because there are no children left in Gaza.
We're talking about violent fans, and I think the Prime Minister should stay out of operational matters.
That's not a matter for him sitting in number 10, Downing Street.
It's a matter for the local police teams here in Birmingham to make an assessment.
Unfortunately, incredibly, unsurprisingly, the police and the football authorities went along with that and banned any fans from Tel Aviv Maccabi to attend.
Normally in games like this, whether it's international, people travel and follow their team and they cheer for their team.
Here they actually banned the Jewish supporters, the Israelis and others who would support Tel Aviv Maccabi, which would be disproportionately Jewish.
That did not sate their anger.
Many Muslim politicians went on demanding that the Israeli athletes themselves be forbidden from attending.
Here's some of those Muslim politicians, some of whom, by the way, I should tell you, ran for public office on a lend your vote to Gaza campaign.
The leading parties in the UK are the Labour Party, which is now the government, the Conservative Party, which is the official opposition, and the Reform Party, this is the up-and-coming party of Naja Faraj.
In about half a dozen ridings around the UK, the Muslim vote is so large that a Muslim first candidate won with the phrase, lend Gaza your vote.
And don't be surprised if they try to purge anything Jewish or Israeli.
Everyone over the age of 18 has to serve in the Israeli army if they live there.
It's the law.
If they don't do it, then they can go to prison for this, which means that the IDF players that are coming to Birmingham, that are coming to Aston Villa, have in their lifetimes, if they're over 18, which most of them are, have served in the IDF, have been complicit in the genocide, have been part of this occupying army, because that's why I call them the Israeli occupation forces.
So we can't have these people in Birmingham Canvi.
We can't have them in Aston Canvi.
It just doesn't make sense.
They need to be banned from football.
They need to be banned from all competitions.
And FIFA needs to intervene.
Let me show you a video that was filmed one or two nights ago and released yesterday.
I think this is a terrifying video, but a beautifully produced, a propaganda video for sure.
And it actually reminded me stylistically of the ISIS recruitment videos.
Here.
Take a look at this.
In the
face of this, these shenanigans, two things happened.
As I mentioned, some of the Muslim activists in town wanted to go much further, and why wouldn't they?
They saw that they could push around the Football League.
They saw they could push around the police.
Why not become emboldened and push further?
So they said they would have a huge rally here at the football game against Israel.
At the same time, a smaller group of people said they wanted to rally to prove that Jews could go wherever they want to in the UK and that Birmingham would not become a no-go zone for the Jews.
Here's Ahmed Yacoub, one of these activists, calling for people to come out en masse.
A look.
On the day of the match, we will be here joining the many groups that are protesting, and I'm sure we'll make enough noise to show them our disgust with the Israeli establishment.
We need to unite because we need to send a clear message to the Israeli establishment that we will not stand with any sort of genocide and we will stand with the Palestinians.
Nathan Yahoo will know and will receive a strong message when Bakabet Tal Aviv does not play at Villa.
By the way, that's the same lawyer who represents Muslim men who beat up police women in an atrocious case at Manchester Airport.
And he has also advice for people who want to carry bats around with them, which is carry a glove with you too, so you can tell police the bat isn't for hurting people.
I don't know if you've ever seen this.
Have a bat in your car, but you can't demonstrate that you have a sporting event.
You can get into trouble with the police and the prosecution and see yourself in court for possession of an offensive weapon.
So if you do have a baseball bat, for example, for a sporting event, then make sure it is clear and you have other equipment with it as well.
Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to show that you have a reasonable excuse to have this bat.
Always remember, there's a defense for every offense.
Yeah, so it seems like a really nice guy.
On the other hand, there were some Jews saying, hey, don't push us around.
There's only about 2,000 or 3,000 Jews in all of Birmingham.
It's not even 1% of the population.
But some of them said, hey, we're still in a free country.
Aren't we?
We're going to have a counter-protest.
And that's what I wanted to go to.
I wanted to go and see the counter-protest because I've been to massive anti-Semitic pro-Hamas rallies before.
I've seen that.
But I wanted to see what the pushback looks like for Jews who would be slowly extinguished, not through violence, although there is violence in this country, but through just abuse and hectoring and defamation and denormalization.
What does that look like?
That's one of the things I came here for.
And I have to say, it was very sad.
The average age of the people at this counter-protest was about 65.
There was only about 50 of them, and they had to be outnumbered, I don't know, two to one, three to one by police for their own protection.
Here's some of my visit and conversations at that counter protest.
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
I am in Birmingham.
I'm at a counter-protest, the massive Islamist protest that's happening a few hundred yards away.
The reason for the protest and the counter-protest is the Israeli football team or soccer, as we would say in North America, is playing the local Birmingham team here in Birmingham, UK.
Birmingham has a massive Muslim population, and Muslim politicians managed to convince, terrify, threaten, whatever you want to say, the Israeli team into not allowing Israeli fans to come to the stadium.
And that sort of spread into any pro-Israel fans, which include Jewish people.
Local activists, including local politicians who appeal to the Islamist base, and it's a very Muslim city, have called for mass protests, even though the Jewish fans were banned.
They want the Jewish team itself banned.
Really, what we're talking about here is whether or not the UK becomes a no-go place for Jews.
Now, obviously, not the whole UK, but places like Birmingham, where 30-40% of the population is Muslim.
And even if only one in 10 of those is radicalized and willing to commit certain acts, well, that's enough to terrify the community.
More than 1,000 police are being deployed tonight.
You can see at this Jewish counter-demonstration, there's only about maybe 100 people, and that's including journalists and security.
I myself are for security because who knows what's expected.
We're going to do a march, and policies, there's got to be 100 police out front there, will do their best to keep the Jews and the pro-Israel side separate from the pro-Hamas side.
I'll keep you posted as I go.
I'll have all my reports at rebelfieldreports.com.
I get the feeling that this very small number of pro-Israel supporters will be kept far away from the pro-Hamas supporters, but we'll show you how that looks.
They're trying to protect folks associated with the Jewish community and the anti-anti-Semitic community.
You can see there's a sort of a gated section there with police at the doors.
That's where some speeches were held about 10 minutes ago.
On this side, you can see a ton of police as well.
And the Astovilla fans, and Aston Villa fans, I've been able to talk to a few of them about football.
I know almost nothing about the sport, I must confess, but I just needed a break from the politics for a minute.
Everyone who I've spoken to here is happy to have the game.
I guess it makes sense if you're here to watch the game between Aston Villa and Tel Aviv, you're probably cool with the game between Aston Villa or Tel Aviv, where you wouldn't be here to see it.
I think the number one thing I was picking up from Aston Villa fans, including the ones who didn't want to talk to me online, were this is just football.
What are you doing dragging it into an international incident?
And that's true.
I mean, that's the whole point about sport, right?
That's the whole point of the Olympics is to find some common.
It's like music or something.
It should be, it should transcend politics.
But, you know, things are fairly peaceful at this close to the actual stadium.
I spoke to a journalist who identified himself to me as a Jewish journalist for the local Jewish newspaper.
And obviously, he himself had not been attacked in any way.
He was not visibly Jewish, but he said that there was some menacing and threatening comments.
And really, that's all it takes to drive severely normal people, families, away.
And I think there's a kind of soft ethnic cleansing going on.
I mean, I think it's not just the Jewish community.
I think there's some white flight in Birmingham and other places in the UK.
I know it.
But I'm glad I came here today.
I have to say the size of the counter-protest was very small.
It was less than 100 people.
There were almost as many security, and there were more police than there were counter-protesters.
And that makes me a little sad.
Now, you know, maybe some of it is just despondency, or maybe some of the people were afraid to come out.
But glad I was here.
And it was an enormous expense and effort by the police to make this counter-protest and to allow this team, this match to happen.
Police Overwhelm Protesters00:03:38
And by the way, they're not done yet.
The match has not happened.
Who knows what shenanigans will happen inside the stadium?
And then the Israelis have to get on a bus and make it to their hotel and be safe there.
So the night is not yet over.
And I hate to be dark, but I remember reading about the 1972 games in Munich.
It's a terrible thing to see.
Now, I had worn a stab-proof vest, and I had four, actually turned into five bodyguards with me because I thought I would encounter the ruffians on the pro-Hamas side.
But because I had chosen to see what the Jewish counter-protesters said, I was actually within a wall of steel and people, as so many police were sent to protect those handful of Jews.
It was actually an enormous undertaking by police.
Let me show you a little bit of that, including some of the speech.
We're about to be escorted out of this area.
I think there's got to be a hundred cops.
There'd be probably a hundred cops that are going to escort the pro-Israel and pro-Jewish supporters out of here.
It's just actually an enormous deployment of manpower.
And open up this area please, to let them come out.
Come on, we're not ready!
Right, you'll score a few places just to give some more space.
Please ignore the noise.
Ignore the noise!
Watch your feet everyone!
Thank you.
Thank you.
They want to get a chicken burger over here.
Forward.
Andy.
Come here.
Keep it together.
Back again.
He's back again.
I think he wants to go to the car by everyone's time.
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Well, while I was with the Jewish dissidents, there were, I'd say, a couple of thousand pro-Hamas protesters, and they were just sort of shouting at everybody.
There weren't really any, they weren't inside the stadium.
The people inside the stadium obviously paid for a ticket and they wanted to see the soccer match.
But those outside, well, they started shouting Allah Akbar and the like.
Take a look at that.
Take a look at that.
One of the heartening things for me was to see the Aston Villa fans shouting back at these Palestinians who I can assure you, do not go to the soccer matches.
It's actually a very interesting cultural segment of the UK that goes to soccer matches, football matches.
It's really the last bastion of Indigenous white British culture.
I mean, UK culture in 2025 is so varied.
There's a whole school of rap.
There's many different multicultural mixes, but football or soccer, as we would call it, remains sort of the Indigenous British thing.
So they were having none of it.
Here, take a look at some of the back and forth between the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas protesters and just some regular salt-of-the-earth Brits going back and forth.
You know, there were a couple of arrests today.
I'm aware of three of them.
One was our friend young Bob, the 17-year-old reporter, who was arrested because he was having a bit of a debate with a Muslim Imam, and the cops said that was too provocative.
So he's arresting young Bob.
Arresting young Bob.
I'll laugh at it.
Yeah, laugh at it Bob.
Take it then.
We'll take it.
We'll take the arrest.
We'll take the arrest.
Yeah.
An immanent wanted to talk to a Christian.
That's what it was.
What is wrong with that?
You're not allowed to have religious discussions.
You're not allowed to have religious discussions.
So religious discussions are people who are free for the peace by Western and police.
That's disgusting.
Disgusting.
As you can see, we would everyone try to find a box in the club.
Yes, he is.
And he got invited to talk to them.
Another arrest was Meyer Tussi, who is a Persian-born freedom-oriented pundit, who was arrested as well.
I'm going to ask you to call the Grub series.
I didn't want to have a conversation anyway.
Yeah, I didn't want to have a conversation with him.
I should tell you that the screaming pro-Hamas protesters who were shouting at Aston Villa fans, they weren't arrested.
Of course not.
What are you crazy?
But young Bob and Meyer Tussie were.
Also, a lady who unfurled a Star of David flag.
I mean, doesn't she know that's Islamophobic?
you, we're about five minutes away from that being called Islamophobic here in the UK.
There were some, there were some scraps outside and I didn't see them myself and I And I think that was a function of my decision to be with the counter-protesters.
It was a little bit weird walking through a city like you had to be protected from people jumping out of the corners to smash you, but that's exactly how it was.
In fact, walking from where the counter-protest had been back to the train station and parking lot, et cetera, the police had to escort us.
And it was fascinating to watch them escort us through a heavily Muslim neighborhood where in every store, every convenience store, every Shisha restaurant, every barber shop, there were young Muslim men who were staring at these Jews.
And really, what the police were doing is making sure that those young men didn't come pouring out into the streets to beat the living daylights out of the Jews.
And you may say that's speculation on my part, but I watched as police talked to these Muslim men and sort of said, go in or go out, don't be in the doorway.
Like you could see, their whole effort was to stop the Jews from being attacked as they walked through the neighborhood.
And by the way, it's almost every neighborhood in Birmingham that's like that.
It was sort of weird being kettled that way by police.
That's one explanation for what happened.
We were brought to the stadium and put in a large area that I think can only be called a cage.
Here, take a look at some of that.
You can see behind me, I am outside the stadium of the British football team Aston Villa in their hometown of Birmingham.
That's the second largest city in the UK after London.
You can see an Israeli flag there.
The only reason that flag is flying is because there is a wall of police between this small crowd of pro-Israel and Jewish and friends of the Jews who are counter-protesting what happened in the stadium tonight.
In short, there's a match between Aston Villa, hometown team, and the awake team being Tel Aviv Maccabi, as the name Tel Aviv gives away.
It's an Israeli team and it's part of an exhibition-style tournament or whatever.
But local Islamic extremists had a petition and demanded that the government ban any fans of the Tel Aviv team from attending on the preposterous accusation that the Jews would cause riots.
You know those Jews and their riots.
So the team actually banned the Jews, banned Israelis.
I don't know how full the match is inside.
I'm outside, and of course, the protesters here are separated from what I expect is tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters that were whipped up by the same activists that had the Jewish fans banned.
That is why the West Midlands Police has deployed 1,000 cops tonight.
Hang on, I thought the threat to security was from those Jewish fans that are banned.
No, I don't think anyone believes that.
There are Islamic extremists in Birmingham.
And I'm not just talking about jihadists.
I'm talking about people who would just get into fisticuffs and pummel the Jews if they were to come into contact.
There's only about 2,000 Jews in the whole city.
And much of the city is overwhelmingly Islamic.
I went out for a bit of a walk today, and I thought, oh, I'm in an Islamic neighborhood.
No, that's just called the neighborhood.
It's a demographic story.
Birmingham is further down that road than any place in Canada, say other than Mississauga.
Further down the road than any place in America other than Dearborn, Michigan.
But as long as mass immigration continues to bring in people from places like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Afghanistan, places like that, expect more and more, well, anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately, when you import people from endemically anti-Semitic countries, that's who they are.
They don't suddenly adopt Western values on the short flight into the UK.
I came here because I wanted to see if Birmingham is being turned into a no-go zone for Jews.
And you can still go, but you're behind a metal fence.
And you need hundreds of police to keep you safe.
Just feet on the other side there.
You can see the form.
There's someone holding court.
I presume he's an anti-Israel activist recognized what I can hear.
But there's a fence between us.
Peaceful, harmonious countries don't have fences between ethnic groups.
That's a sectarianism that has come through mass immigration in the main.
It's very sad to see.
I think the Jews of Birmingham are subject to a soft ethnic cleansing.
They're not being murdered.
They're not being genocided.
They're just being driven out as part of a larger white flight from cities like Birmingham that used to be incredible pillars of the UK and now, frankly, have more in common with Pakistan.
For rebel news, I'm Anne's from LeBanton.
You can see all my reports from Birmingham.
Go to RebelFieldReports.com.
So in the end, the game went ahead and Aston Villa beat Tel Abib Maccabi.
I'm not surprised by that.
I mean, these British football teams really are outstanding and the Israelis play with some passion, but they're not going to likely beat a team of the caliber of Aston Villa.
I did manage to talk to a couple of actual Brits about football, and I have to say it was a bit of a relief, and I can see why they were so angry about the politicization of their sport.
I mean, sport is supposed to be a harmonious thing that we can all agree on, even if we have political differences, religious differences, linguistic differences.
That's one of the ideas of the Olympics, isn't it?
It's sort of like music.
It can appeal to people of different backgrounds.
And that's precisely why it's being hijacked by the Palestinian, pro-Palestinian extremists in this town, because they don't want harmony or amity with Israel, and they want Palestine injected in every damn thing.
It's interesting, the flag wars in the UK.
You saw in that advertisement, these massed Hamas supportees putting up their Palestine flags everywhere.
Those have never been condemned by the Prime Minister or any authorities that I know of.
But the British resistance, and there's really an awakening of the Indigenous British people in the last six months, putting up either the Union Jack or the Cross of St. George, which is the flag of England within Great Britain.
It's sort of a counter-revolution through flags.
And what's incredible to me is so many city councils take down the British flag, the Union Jack, the English flag across the St. George, but leave up the Palestine flag.
So I tell you, it's got to be tough being a Jew in Birmingham.
And I see these same things in Canada, but not as progressed.
But we're not far behind.
Today I saw a group of extremists break into a private function. and violently assault some Israelis.
I don't even know what the event was for, but these are pro-Palestine extremists.
Now, most of them are actually Canadian, not new immigrants from Muslim countries, which shows you the double problem that Canada has.
You have these extreme woke leftists in an alliance with radical Islam.
It's actually scary.
Jonathan!
Jonathan's coming to Jesus!
Stop!
Get out of here!
Get out!
Get out!
Get off!
Our city!
We refuse to allow you to come in our city!
Call Nadios for allowing us to believe!
Call Nadio City!
Call 911!
Call Jonathan!
Criminals!
Call our city!
Call 911!
Free-free Palestine!
We free Palestine!
Free!
Get Palestine!
Get out!
Get out!
Oh, my God.
And I think it's being allowed to happen in Canada in a similar way to it being allowed to happen in Birmingham.
What I'm saying is by giving the bigots an inch, they proceed to take a mile.
I think that's what's happened in Canada over the last two years, and it's what's been happening in the UK over the last 20, to be honest.
I asked some members of the Jewish community in that little cage we were in if they've gotten over their love for immigration.
I think Jews typically are liberal or have been.
And even now, even as Israel is being banned and the Jews are being driven out of Birmingham and maybe one day driven out of all of England, some of these liberal Jews just could not bring themselves to say, no, we shouldn't have immigration from places that hate Jews.
I mean, there's some sort of a suicidal gene of suicidal altruism that Jewish liberals still have.
I don't know.
I find it very depressing as a Jew myself.
Why Jews Still Love Immigration00:09:49
Anyways, I'm glad I came out here.
I wonder if I should have gone out and about to wear the pro-Hamas protesters met the Brits.
Part of me would have loved that, especially with my new stab jacket on and my five bodyguards.
But actually, I really wanted to see what Jews in a declining population look like and sound like when they're under attack.
And frankly, it was extremely sad.
It made me nostalgic for a Britain I never knew but I knew existed.
My own grandmother was born in the UK and I can only imagine how safe and tolerant and happy it was for her and how different it is now.
I don't think there's any lessons to be learned from what I would sort of call a pitiful gathering.
I think the answer lies with the more muscular approach taken by my friend Tommy Robinson, which is why I came out to the UK this week in the first place.
As you know, on Tuesday, he got the sentence back.
The verdict, he was acquitted in the Bazaar Terrorism Act.
I don't know if you followed that, but Tommy Robinson was charged under the Terrorism Act because he wouldn't give police his cell phone password without a search warrant.
So he had a whole trial under the Terrorism Act for that.
He won.
But these people who were screaming a la Akbar today and throwing things at Aston Villa fans, none of them, I can assure you, none of them will be charged under the Terrorism Act or likely with anything else.
Anyways, I'm back to Canada first thing in the morning and I'm looking forward to being there.
And I'm actually going to go straight out to the ostrich farm where Drea is.
The bad news, as you may have heard, is the Supreme Court has refused to hear an application for a final appeal.
They just will not hear the appeal.
And so the stay of execution is over.
And that means the Canadian government, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, with the backing of the RCMP, is going to massacre.
I'm sorry, that's the word.
It's going to massacre 400 birds.
They're not sick.
They're not a threat to anyone.
In fact, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. points out, they're medically useful.
They could be important for medical research.
Because these birds were sick about a year ago, then they got better.
They have herd immunity now, and there's things to be learned from that.
Imagine.
And he actually wrote two letters to that effect of the Canadian government.
They proceeded to ignore him.
So I'm very sorry that that happened because there's no, it's not a good thing to, without purpose, take any life, even the animal life.
It's just, it's wasteful and cruel.
There is no reason to kill those healthy animals.
There's no reason to seize that private property.
There's no reason to trespass upon a private farm.
There's no reason to demonize the farmers and to have a 50-police operation for that.
It's just so many things wrong with it.
Drea's out there doing absolutely top-notch reporting.
If you want to follow her work, go to savetheostriches.com.
All right, I got to go catch a few hours' sleep, and then I'm going to go from Birmingham to London in the morning, and then I'll be home in Canada.
Thanks for your support for these things.
I come to the UK because the crises they're facing here, whether it's a crises of censorship or a crises of Muslim extremists building a no-go zone for Jews, don't for a second think that that ain't coming to Canada.
My friends, I tell you, it is.
For rebel news, I'm Ezra Levant.
Good night.
to keep fighting for freedom.
All the dogs have to say in fact.
All of the dogs have to say that.
Listed on the Supreme Court.
So when Kitty first looked at it, she saw the top, which was one that was approved to move forward, and then had to scroll a little bit and see Universal Ostrich Farms.
So these are some of the people who are usually in the home preparing the farm breakfast and preparing to grasp what that means.
what that is very emotional myself okay so what what is omar's move right up the gate now Is he there?
He can't submit in Vancouver until 8:30, but someone can be in the thin hardware submitting on his behalf.
So dogs have to see him.
Have to stay in China.
Tyler, Dennis.
Hi.
So you could just hear Katie say that the dogs, their pets, have to stay in out of fear that they might go too close to the CFIA because that's happened in the past before, where pets have been called for getting too close to the herd.
So all the animals got to stay in the house as they figure out what happens next.
And yeah, so let's just keep covering.
And you can watch all of our background on this story.
The Universal Ostrich Farms, ongoing dispute for almost a year long, trying to defend and protect their healthy flock of over 300 animals, none of which who have been tested on this physical farm.
The entire herd that's been seized by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has never once been tested.
Everyone who's been here, everyone who's watched the videos know that they are healthy, happy, and know that because of the science that they're involved, that's even more of a reason for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to have gone ahead and given existence.
Not to mention they're not even poultry.
So they had an easy up.
They could have just said, you know what, we're going to treat these guys a little differently because they're not poultry.
But it would seem there are reasons at play that that can't happen according to the state of Canada.
So I'm going to get my shoes on here.
Chris, how are you feeling?
I mean, that was, I don't even know how to explain that, pure elation.
And that's what it's like here.
Like one second, you're so happy.
And cooler heads failed.
Like it's a good thing we've got the information.
They're already announcing.
I mean, either way, we knew this wasn't over.
But I don't know what comes next.
Yeah, exactly.
We better get out there, though.
Yeah.
I'm going to head out, getting my shoes on.
I got to grab my phone because unfortunately, another one here.
Yeah, I think Katie had my phone when she was reading the decision.
Um, I'm not sure it was on her phone, possibly.
Thank you.
I think Katie might have it.
That's okay.
I'll stick around and tell her.
There'll be a little low maybe through the morning, but mostly wet and especially later you can see.
I'm going to head over near downtown.
Please don't.
Anymore?
Any more?
Can I stop?
I won't.
Okay, this is what pain looks like.
She's going to lose everything that she loves.
Her family will never get these animals back and Canada will never get these animals.
Shame on you.
That is pain.
This isn't a commercial culture block.
This is a family.
This is a family.
It looks as though Dave already has the news.
He's over there.
You have the RCMP who have been here since September 22nd, as well as the CFIA way back there.
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All on the taxpayers' time.
They couldn't let the Supreme Court do their thing.
Let's catch up with Dave.
To say, look, see, God's not real.
That is not God.
He wants us stronger, believing harder now.
We need to come together harder now for Canada and the world.
We need to push more into Christ, not farther away.
This is just a test.
And you know what?
The losers are the ones that lost because they don't know God.
And they're committing murder, which it says in the Bible, thou shall not commit murder.
So they are going to a very unhappy place.
We're going to stand together.
We're going to keep on pushing forward.
We're going to keep praying for the family.
We're going to keep praying for the neighbors who have pets.
And we just got to keep going.
Amen.
Because the darkness cannot win over the light and the light is still here.
They think they won, but they have not won.
They have lost.
They are going to a very dark place and they're never going to have a good sleep at night.
These people are not on the right side of the law.
Of God, I mean, the law we know now is criminal itself.
It's corrupt.
There are more things that I would like to say about this whole thing when it started.
When it started, we did not know we had H5N1 here.
And when they did that first test, they only found, they only tested for an H.
And they said it was a high-path disease.
Just testing for an H doesn't make a virus.
The only time they found you found out what the true virus was when it went to the lab in Winnipeg.
When they did that test in Winnipeg, it was a hybrid, which meant that it was not a high path.
And yet they've said we've had a high-path disease here from day one.
It's not high-path, and they know it.
When we got going, when we realized that we had the problem, we got the problem solved.
The last bird died in the middle of January.
And we had offered all the science that we have.
We gave them our business plan that showed what we can do and what we have done with the antibodies.
They had all of that information.
Dr. Sukamoto from Japan offered to the Canadian government at that time his whole stockpile of H5N1 antibodies, and he has a lot.
He's had them for quite a few years.
Silence.
They decided before January that they were going to take us out.
They haven't done it yet, but it's very, very close now.
And there's other things that are happening behind the scene that I can't discuss right at this time of what's happened out there to our disadvantage.
This is extreme disappointment, not for Canadians, but for people all across the world that have fell in love with these animals as beacons of hope that there still was good in the world.
Our government has made a decision that will never ever come back from.
This is the worst mistake in Canadian history.
This has been a fight for 11 months and a fight for 11 months for life versus death.
This has not been about breaking laws or setting a dangerous precedence.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency has set the most dangerous precedents today, and that is that our voices don't matter.
Do you have any other legal options?
What are your options for now?
We're waiting to hear from Omar, our lawyer.
I'll let you know about that.
But I promise you, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has just given us so much more, more fight, more fight to fight for every farmer out there because under our watch we will never ever let another farmer go through this.
And I know that the world isn't going to either.
Out there, we have over 300 lives, heartbeats, that'll never come back.
Remember that Canadian Food Inspection Agency today is playing God.
And nobody has the right to play God.
And that's what they've been doing for decades.
They've been playing God.
You have dozens of people who came to the farm in the last 11 months.
What does it mean to the whole community that was gathered here?
It's pain.
This is pain.
People gathered here with unity and hope.
They're restoring faith in the Canadians, of the justice system that has failed so many people.
And this is another fail.
Animals deserve the right to live.
They definitely deserve the right to be tested before they're eradicated and killed with inhumane actions like foaming and smothering and shutting off their airflow.
This is wrong.
These animals that are out behind us, they have been alive for 35 years.
Could you imagine just killing your aunt or your uncle or your child because they were sick almost a year ago?
They haven't been tested and we need to remember that, that animals are being killed every day based off suspicion of an agency that's gone rogue and has too much power.
You know, shame on you, Heath MacDonald, our agricultural minister, for never reaching out to us, never setting foot on this farm.
Shame on our government for not stepping up.
Our true leaders, where are our true leadership in Canada?
They have failed us.
Our true leaders in Canada have failed us.
What is going to happen, Nali?
You cannot really see what's inside the farm right now, but what do you think is going to happen in one?
We've been pain, traumatized animals, terrorizing animals, killing.
It's murdering.
Murdering healthy animals that have been 35 years on this planet.
They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won't survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
There's a problem.
We are surrounded by the most loving people.
And we've been surrounded by thousands of people that continue to keep wanting to fight for justice.
And it isn't over yet.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, you can stop.
Be the heroes that everybody, everybody deserves.
This is a painful moment in history.
This is a painful moment.
And I will make it my life's mission to make sure that Canadian Food Inspection Agency is not allowed to continue to operate in the way that they have been able to.
Katie, given the support you've gotten from grassroots and politically here and internationally, what do you think this decision means not just for the farm but for the entire country?
This means that when you speak up and you use your voice, you're punished.
It means that when you stand up for what's right and you stand up for life, that bureaucracy pushes harder, that we don't, we're not heard and we don't.
We're in, we can't stop our government from taking innocent life.
What does that mean?
Where is the respect for life gone?
Our country, this is a very sad day for our country, but this, like I said, this isn't just about our country.
This is a sad day for the world because on an international level, the world is watching and the world is going to watch you, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
They're going to watch you take innocent life today if that's what happens.
And you're never going to come back from this.
So you've signed your finish line.
And I hope that we see the fall of Canadian Food Inspection Agency today.
Heath McDonald, Paul McKinnon, Courtney Folderingham.
Everybody needs to know your names and needs to know that you signed that kill order 41 minutes.
41 minutes after getting our test results back to a non-accredited lab.
41 minutes.
You signed livelihoods away.
You signed research and opportunity away.
You signed lives away.
Healthy lives.
You signed that away by the stroke of your pen.
You have no idea the ramifications that you guys are having on Canadian industry, on the future of Canadians, of our children and our grandchildren.
You have no idea.
And all of your names will be known.
And I will make it my, and our family will make it our life's mission that everybody knows your name.
When you walk into a grocery store to buy the groceries that we have bought as farmers to put on your plate, everybody will know your name.
Today we would offer to beg the RCFP to be on the right side of history.
Get out of here!
You can stop!
Step up and protect your people!
Protect the law!
Not the government!
Protect the law!
Get out of your homes!
Protect the law!
Protect survivors!
Get out of the homes.
They're survivors.
Get out of your homes because even the RCMP in the situation now.
It looks like those black tents that are sampled.
Getting out of your name!
CFIA!
Never wants to know your name!
No!
It looks like the black tents are sort of like ice fishing tents that you would see put up.
And those didn't go up until the order was in, at least not as many of them.
So they're definitely, as to be expected, unrolling.
We still don't know exactly who the company is that will be doing the call.
Katie, in rare cases, the CFIA has made exceptions to not crying.
Stamping out is not the only way, and that's not the only binary approach to dealing with an avian influenza.
So avian influenza, they've jumped to stamping out 41 minutes after our test results from a non-accredited lab in Ambotsford, British Columbia, which we were fighting.
So that is what got us into the troubles.
We were fighting the December 31st call date.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency completely denies the opportunity to listen to any reconsideration material, any material of the life of the animals 300 days after.
These animals are a living laboratory of antibodies and a renewable source of hope for Canadians, for the world, for animals across the world, and for our industries.
Supply chain management doesn't want you.
There are so many layers to this.
I've been red-pilled.
You've been red-pilled for 11 months.
Which brings me to my next question.
And I get this all the time.
Why?
Why do you think the CFIA is going ahead with this?
There is Big Pharma.
Why would Big Pharma want therapeutic advantage that would take precedence to their vaccine push and their vaccine reliance on humanity?
Right?
So this is about money.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, this is about ego.
This is a kill on ego.
This is not a kill because they think that they have to.
We've watched it.
Their mandates don't matter.
Their policy doesn't matter.
They've camped in the hottest zones.
They have not followed their own policy.
They wear their hazmat suits.
Sometimes they wear their PPE some not.
We have police driving around in their cruisers with the bales that you see behind me in the hottest zone, the kill pen.
They've taken bales off that to go and fill muddy holes so that the police cars can drive over it.
That same hay is in Vernon, British Columbia at the hotels near you.
So if we were truly a virulent threat, you tell me.
How many of us, many of us died, have we had any supporters die?
There's people that die from the common flu every day.
This is a fear-mongering tactic of the Canadian government.
This is tyranny.
This is overreach.
And I know some people are even sick of hearing the word overreach, but maybe you shouldn't get sick of it.
Maybe you should actually be so sick of it that you stand up.
This is a tyrannical behavior.
We're being led into communism.
Bill C9 is coming.
Our voices are going to mean nothing.
What does it mean when they can just flick a switch off because you use your voice on social media to do something good for Canadians and stand up?
We're going down a dangerous path.
Our family and this farm is going to continue to fight for all Canadians and all of those that have been impacted on an international level from what's happened here.
Have you been in touch with other farmers, maybe ones that have had their flocks called?
And if so, what have you learned from their situation?
What have we learned?
That millions of animals, 4 million animals, died in September due to the hands of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
I don't even understand why they call themselves the Canadian Food Inspection Agency because they're a professional killing agency.
They are not here to protect.
They are here to eradicate, kill, and they are not here to preserve.
Those farmers, there's the 2,000 head of cattle months ago here during our own fight in Saskatchewan that were eradicated due to the thought of tuberculosis.
They have not even been compensated yet.
Imagine this.
All of your animals are destroyed.
Your livelihoods are gone.
You're sitting with pain that you will never recover from.
And you're still not compensated.
But do you know what they do leave you with?
A bill.
A bill to clean up your farm.
A bill to clean up your barns.
And you know what?
Even our lawyer warned us: they're going to kill, and then they're going to make a mess of your farm, and they're going to leave you with it.
And that's going to be on you to recover from, to pick yourself up from.
You tell me what other, what any other Canadian, anybody in the world should ever have to go through this ever again.
11 months of proving what?
Science that they won't look at?
Science, all of our expert witness reports that they've struck in from our records in the court system.
They won't listen to science.
They won't listen to veterinarians.
They won't listen to hope.
They will listen to change.
Their mandate is to quarantine, test, kill, and compensate.
That's the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's mandate.
That's their mandate.
You want to go look it up?
Go look at their mandate.
to look at their policy, to look at their, this is, they don't follow anything that they put in print.
They are a self-regulating agency, giving themselves raises whenever they want, moving a bar whenever they want.
They remove the goalpost.
This is an agency that actually does its own audits.
In the fiscal year 2024 to 2025, they're $1.1 billion while we're struggling as Canadians, struggling to feed our families, struggling to pay our rent, struggling as Canadians to survive, but they just keep getting wage increases and their budget goes up to kill.
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There's a problem when the budget goes up to kill.
Nothing has got better as stamping out since 2020 or 2004.
Stamping out isn't working.
We can see that to do with the violent threats that keep arising.
They say that Fraser Valley is getting hit so hard.
But you want to know what?
They've made Stamping Out such a lucrative policy for the chicken and poultry producers that they don't say anything.
It's a lucrative business.
You get paid, you have about six, I don't know how many month-old chickens that are going to market.
You get overpaid for them.
Who would speak up?
You're getting paid to be silenced for them to kill your animals and kill off the biodiversity and genetic diversity that we need for survival.
And they thought that they were going to come to a farm 135 kilometers away from nowhere and they're going to pick a unique animal that no one was going to pay attention to.
And you want to know what?
The world paid attention to them.
And we're not going to let the world forget every life that stands behind me and every life that stands behind me is going to create the change that Canada needs and never be forgotten.
There will be an ostrich day.
It will be a universal ostrich day.
That day will help protect your families.
See them right now hurting the ostriches towards the opposite way.
Hey, you guys in the white little monkey suits over there, can you hear me?
35 years old, probably older than you are.
35 years old, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
They're healthy animals.
You have to go to bed at night and know you killed healthy animals.
We love you.
Frank, we love you.
Spunky, we love you.
You're feisty and you're fun.
You play with us when we do chores.
Sergeant Bilco, you're a fighter.
Scotty, you are so red and so amazing.
The colors in you are outstanding.
Annabelle is 35.
35 years old.
Trevor, you got a funky toe and we love you.
We were just making you better.
Connor, Ethan, Carrie, Erica, Donald, Cedar.
Oh, God.
There are so many names.
So many names.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, you're killing decades of life.
Decades of life that could actually prove to treat your children.
Treat your children for diseases and viruses in the future.
Annabelle.
Oh, God, Annabelle.
Oh, Regretta.
Regretta.
Regretta, we miss you so much.
Regretta.
Oh, Regretta.
Do you know it's the funniest thing?
We miss their pecs.
We miss their love and touching them.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, you have no idea what you're killing right now.
You've just started a war in Canada.
Revolution.
You don't kill just to kill.
Karen, did you see the ostriches running away from them?
And if so, what was going through your mind then?
Run.
Run, baby, run.
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At this point, what do you say?
Everybody, I pray that they just make it the most difficult thing to do.
They're healthy, unhappy.
They're not sick.
They're not weird.
They try to eat somebody who can't seek in their spirits.
These animals were healthy.
What would you say to the CFI's claim that they're going to do this all humanely?
That is a complete eponym.
They have not done anything humanely.
They have not had shelter.
We could not even see water in their pens.
We had to pray for it to raise so they could have water.
We see them take a bucket and dump it into our ditch so that they could somebody up all the water they were getting.
And they have water.
They're not getting dead easy.
They're not getting anything.
It's productive food.
A lot of people have been asking Katie what this means for the farm.
Your co-owner, in your words, what does it mean that it looks like tonight might be the first time that they're gone for someone?
They're not calling.
No, we, you know what?
It's here at Calpar's Day.
We've been at the 11th hour.
Our lawyer is still working with Nature Supreme Court Client.