Maxime Bernier argues Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act to freeze bank accounts constitutes communist tactics, noting his party's surge from 1.6% to 10% support amidst these restrictions. Bernier highlights the hypocrisy of federal mandates while provinces lift them, citing his own arrest for filming police and a lawsuit against unconstitutional vaccination rules. He contends Trudeau seeks submission through power grabs despite peaceful protests resolving at the Ambassador Bridge, warning that the NDP's alignment with Liberals threatens Senate intervention before freedoms are permanently eroded. [Automatically generated summary]
I wish we were talking under better circumstances, but unfortunately, the man who is your Prime Minister up there in Canada has exercised these emergency powers.
We're going to get into all of that.
And you've really been at the forefront of fighting for freedom from a Canadian perspective for many, many years.
I thought I could just throw to one video real quick up top, because I've had you on the show a couple of times over the years.
First time was about three years ago this month.
And we did an event together about two and a half years ago in Canada and Antifa showed up and a bunch of the sort of hysterical lefties who have seemingly taken over your government showed up and I think a bunch of people will remember this.
Alright, so the reason I started with that is because you have been talking about freedom
and liberty and choice and individual rights in Canada for many years.
That right there, that woman yelling, you know, you're Nazis, et cetera, et cetera, yelling it to a woman whose husband, who was next to her, actually fought against Nazis in World War II.
That has been much of the response, and it seemingly has leaked into your government now.
So I thought that would be a good place to start us off.
And, you know, there's no emergency in Canada right now.
And, you know, if you use that emergencies act, you must show the threshold is very high and you must show that we are in a war in Canada.
There's insurrection in Canada.
Our democracy is in danger.
That's not the case.
And a lot of experts, legal experts, said this week that there's no justification for Justin Trudeau to use that emergency act.
And actually, the Premier of Quebec, the Premier of Alberta, the Premier of Saskatchewan said to Trudeau, we don't want you to use these powers.
We don't need that act.
And we don't want that in our province.
But Trudeau didn't listen and he went and he used it.
And now, you know, in Ottawa, the police will act and I don't know what can happen, but that protest was very peaceful and people were happy to be there and we'll see.
But Trudeau has one solution that he can use and that would be very, very effective.
It's to end the mandates at the federal level.
Actually, as you know, I cannot travel in my own country by plane because I'm not double vaxxed.
That's unconstitutional and illegal and that's why I'm suing right now the federal government because of that.
So I get that guys like you and I maybe are in a little bubble.
We love freedom.
We're around an awful lot of people who like to live freely.
I know it's a very radical idea.
But do you have a sense of who is really supporting Trudeau?
I don't see many people actually supporting him, even just cursorily looking online.
I don't see a lot of support.
For Justin Trudeau, I don't see a lot of support for exercising these emergency powers.
I see an awful lot of pushback, but I don't see the people that are like, yes, he is doing it right, and these people are racists, and they should have their heads crushed by the government.
I mean, he's obviously scared a lot of people, and I want to talk to you about what your deputy prime minister said, obviously, Chrystia Freeland, who gave this just unbelievably awful speech, and that they're going to freeze bank accounts and all that.
But before we get to that, what do you think his real endgame?
Is this purely, I'm going to scare the hell out of these people, enough of them will disappear, and my reign of power will just continue?
It may be something like that, but you know, it's very difficult to understand what he wants to do.
Actually, what we know is for being sure that they think that a bunch of violent people are in Ottawa right now, and that's not true, and more and more people understand that it's not true.
And actually, as you know, The bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, we had a protest over there and the police was able to solve that peacefully and now the bridge is open.
So, without having emergencies act in force.
So, I don't know, Trudeau, like he said during the last electoral campaign, He is very good at devising the population.
Good Canadians and bad Canadians.
And for him, the good ones are the ones that are listening to him and having the two shots or three shots and all these mandates.
And it's worth mentioning that Trudeau was reelected not too long ago with less than a third of the popular vote.
That's just an important little piece to say.
So when the deputy prime minister got up there, Freeland, and said this thing about how they will freeze bank accounts, For people who donate to the truckers, that they're gonna make sure that they cannot crowdfund, that they are gonna figure out ways to regulate cryptocurrency and a series of other things.
First off, I don't know that they can do all that stuff.
I mean, regulating crypto, the whole point of crypto is so that you can't regulate it.
But putting that aside, I can imagine that the average person that is out there with you in Ottawa, the average truck driver, who these are not wealthy people for the most part, they're just, you know, Decent working class people, they get scared.
They get scared.
And then suddenly they don't want to donate.
They don't want to be photographed out there.
And maybe that threat does enough to end this thing.
Do you think, I mean at the end of the day, I know he's head of the liberal party and we've often talked about classical liberalism together, but this man is no liberal in any real sense of the word.
He's either a socialist or a communist or a fascist I would argue at this point.
What do you think really drives him?
What do you think is really driving him at this point?
Because he did not have to do this.
There was a moment a few days ago where some of the premieres were saying, we're going to scale back.
And clearly you guys were going to hear the message.
It was obvious, but he didn't, as I said.
So what do you think he really is trying to accomplish?
But I believe that, you know, power grab, I believe that he enjoyed the fact that he can have all these power and Putting more restrictions on our rights.
I believe that he's acting like a communist dictator right now.
And I believe that he's enjoying that.
Because there's no reason to use that and to do that to stop that.
They were very successful to stop the protests at the Ambassador Bridge peacefully.
So you can do that.
And the answer is end all these mandates.
And provincial governments in Canada are listening to the talkers and ending all these mandates.
Except the federal government.
There's no logic in all that.
And I hope, because the parliament will have to vote on that legislation next week.
And I hope it won't pass.
If it doesn't pass, it would be the end.
If that legislation, that Emergency Act is enforced, Trudeau will have another 30 days to use all this power.
If not, that would be the end.
And I hope we still have political parties in Ottawa, in Parliament, that believe in freedom and believe in our country.
And I hope that they're gonna say no to Justin Trudeau next week.
You know, obviously we're trying to amplify the message here.
People are trying to help with crowdfunding, whatever they can do, and it has nothing to do with supporting racists or bigots or homophobes or transphobes or any of the other nonsense, which is exactly why I played that video up top, because that's what they were yelling about us three years ago.
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