WEBVTT 00:00.620 --> 00:06.920 When I say us all, we're one of the few news programs that is broadcast all around the world. 00:07.460 --> 00:10.760 And so much of what we're reporting on affects the world. 00:10.920 --> 00:15.460 Also we report on what's happening when it's not just in the United States of America and 00:15.460 --> 00:20.120 every once in a while there's a nation that gets out ahead of America, believe it or 00:20.120 --> 00:23.520 not, and does the right thing and maybe affects the entire world. 00:23.840 --> 00:28.820 I was just up in Vancouver, Canada, visiting up with some sponsors and donors up there 00:28.820 --> 00:33.900 that have made the high wire possible and we're talking about one of the biggest news stories 00:33.900 --> 00:38.720 that affected COVID and there was a huge ruling right around the corner. 00:38.900 --> 00:42.320 But before we get into that, what was the big event in Canada? 00:42.660 --> 00:45.360 Do you remember the Canadian truckers? 00:45.980 --> 00:53.300 We are in the middle of Trans-Canada Highway and as you can see, the long epic convoy 00:53.300 --> 00:54.280 is passing by. 00:54.280 --> 00:59.000 A lot of you don't realize the magnitude of this convoy and what we are actually standing 00:59.000 --> 00:59.360 for. 00:59.800 --> 01:04.140 As of yesterday, we were well over 60,000 trucks strong and growing every day. 01:04.540 --> 01:05.700 It's time to stand up. 01:06.320 --> 01:08.500 Don't let our freedoms go because we'll never get them back. 01:08.700 --> 01:14.420 And on the way to Ottawa, every overpass is packed with Canadians. 01:15.480 --> 01:16.340 Look at this right here. 01:16.740 --> 01:17.640 This is not a fridge. 01:18.260 --> 01:23.520 People believe that the government has overstepped with mandates and they are 01:23.520 --> 01:25.680 here to exercise their democratic right. 01:25.860 --> 01:28.520 We want all mandates for all Canadians to completely abolish. 01:28.720 --> 01:33.240 We've done what we've been told to do and enough is enough and we're here to make sure 01:33.240 --> 01:35.660 that the world knows that we're behind people. 01:35.940 --> 01:39.120 We want to get back to the way it was, not the new normal. 01:39.360 --> 01:44.540 What we've seen in the last year with demonization of people, the hatred that 01:44.540 --> 01:49.740 has been spewed from the highest levels is completely unacceptable and the people 01:49.740 --> 01:50.520 have had enough. 01:52.660 --> 01:59.960 I would argue that the Canadian truckers was probably the single most successful and effective 01:59.960 --> 02:04.960 act of rebellion in COVID, the greatest protest anywhere in the world. 02:05.020 --> 02:06.140 We had some big ones here. 02:06.260 --> 02:12.080 We had defeat the mandates here in America, which were great events, about 40,000 in 02:12.080 --> 02:16.940 Washington, DC and nearly 30,000 in Los Angeles. 02:16.940 --> 02:21.880 We saw some protests in England and all around the world, but this one seemed to 02:21.880 --> 02:24.360 grab the hearts and minds of everybody. 02:24.640 --> 02:27.380 It didn't matter what country you were in. 02:27.580 --> 02:32.740 The heart felt energy behind these truckers, risking their careers and of 02:32.740 --> 02:35.900 course it was all about the fact that they wanted to force vaccinate them in 02:35.900 --> 02:38.640 order to do their job, sitting in their trucks all by themselves. 02:38.920 --> 02:39.960 What difference would it make? 02:40.380 --> 02:46.600 Well, it shut down public spaces and they were there and eventually it 02:46.600 --> 02:52.220 was declared that it was, I think, a national emergency and they tried to 02:52.220 --> 02:55.840 bring in some of the war powers acts, I guess, if you will, those emergency 02:55.840 --> 03:01.940 acts that were used all around the world to lock down free citizens, to 03:01.940 --> 03:05.900 bring in authoritarianism, which seemed at the heart of it to be the whole 03:06.680 --> 03:11.880 underlying goal of this and this is the leader at the time, Justin Trudeau, 03:12.140 --> 03:14.000 talking about doing exactly that. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.020 We're going to turn this into an authoritarian regime because we have an 03:17.020 --> 03:17.560 emergency. 03:18.420 --> 03:24.400 The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement 03:24.400 --> 03:30.420 provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations. 03:31.340 --> 03:37.660 The scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted, 03:37.660 --> 03:44.820 as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address. 03:45.740 --> 03:50.180 Of course, it ended up being anything but reasonable as people started seeing 03:50.700 --> 03:55.300 that the, you know, the GoFundMe account, here is Freedom Convoy, GoFundMe 03:55.300 --> 03:59.660 seizes funds of Canada occupation and then they went after the bank 03:59.660 --> 04:04.520 accounts, Canadian authorities, freeze financial assets for those involved 04:04.520 --> 04:06.620 in ongoing protests in Ottawa. 04:07.160 --> 04:10.320 That was not just the truckers having their accounts frozen, but people that 04:10.320 --> 04:12.240 were donating to the convoy. 04:12.340 --> 04:15.440 We've really never seen anything quite like that. 04:15.520 --> 04:19.160 Certainly that went further than we saw what was taking place here in the 04:19.160 --> 04:20.340 United States of America. 04:20.780 --> 04:26.540 Well, there has been a court case ongoing and now the appellate courts 04:26.540 --> 04:29.460 just ruled this is what has just happened in Canada. 04:29.900 --> 04:34.000 Just a few days ago, this is January 16th, the federal government loses 04:34.000 --> 04:35.640 Emergencies Act appeal. 04:35.980 --> 04:40.260 Court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable. 04:41.020 --> 04:45.380 It goes on to say as disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy 04:45.380 --> 04:49.760 protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national 04:49.760 --> 04:53.940 security, wrote the three judges on the appeals court. 04:54.040 --> 04:54.880 So this was the appeals court. 04:54.940 --> 04:57.500 They'd already won in a regular court. 04:57.640 --> 05:01.760 There was no evidence that the lives, health or safety of the people living 05:01.760 --> 05:06.040 in Ottawa were endangered as annoying, stressful and concerning as the 05:06.040 --> 05:09.000 protest were, reads the court's decision. 05:10.020 --> 05:11.960 This is a massive decision. 05:12.160 --> 05:15.300 I would imagine the government's going to try to take it all the way to 05:15.300 --> 05:19.400 the Supreme Court and see if they can find one court that would agree 05:19.400 --> 05:22.520 with the decision to become an authoritarian nation. 05:22.780 --> 05:26.960 Now, I also want to point out that, you know, Justin Trudeau is no 05:26.960 --> 05:31.040 longer the prime minister, neither is the head of New Zealand 05:31.040 --> 05:32.180 or England. 05:32.500 --> 05:37.960 All of these people, Joe Biden, everybody that force mandates at this level 05:37.960 --> 05:40.660 and brought this worldwide authoritarian regime. 05:40.900 --> 05:44.400 So many of them aren't even in the political sphere any longer 05:44.400 --> 05:46.300 because the people spoke out. 05:46.480 --> 05:49.900 Now, it's really unfortunate what's happened in Canada and Canada 05:49.900 --> 05:52.940 may be far worse than most around the world. 05:52.980 --> 05:57.320 So it's ironic that they had the greatest protests probably affected 05:57.320 --> 06:00.580 laws and, you know, and the energy all around the world. 06:00.580 --> 06:04.740 But they themselves still find themselves, you know, under in many 06:04.740 --> 06:08.140 ways an authoritarian perspective on vaccinations. 06:08.420 --> 06:10.320 So we're going to continue to talk about Canada. 06:10.640 --> 06:14.300 I'm going to continue to go up there and support their right to freedom 06:14.300 --> 06:17.440 because they are just too close a neighbor to America. 06:17.680 --> 06:19.840 We just cannot stand for this. 06:20.000 --> 06:24.820 We've got to, you know, stop authoritarianism everywhere that it 06:24.820 --> 06:27.760 breeds. I guess you could go as far as calling collectivism, 06:27.760 --> 06:32.160 communism, all these things that seem to be hot button issues now 06:32.160 --> 06:33.380 all around the world. 06:33.720 --> 06:37.680 And if anything affects our health, certainly the inability to control 06:37.680 --> 06:41.300 what goes into our own bodies and the bodies of our children. 06:41.780 --> 06:43.120 This isn't a national problem. 06:43.240 --> 06:44.980 It's currently an international problem. 06:45.100 --> 06:49.320 That's why the high wire is proud to be broadcasting all around the world. 06:49.480 --> 06:54.640 We've got a great show coming up, Dr. Joel Gator Walsh joining me. 06:54.900 --> 06:57.240 This is a pediatrician that started in the mainstream, 06:57.240 --> 07:01.980 but slowly but surely watched the foundations of medicine that he had 07:01.980 --> 07:05.100 been trained in started crumbling around him. 07:05.160 --> 07:06.600 We're going to see where he's at now. 07:06.820 --> 07:08.020 Is it possible to find? 07:08.140 --> 07:12.180 Is there a is there a convenient middle that we can all land on 07:12.180 --> 07:16.600 in this debate that is now, you know, gripping America and the world?