When I say us all, we're one of the few news programs that is broadcast all around the world.
And so much of what we're reporting on affects the world.
Also we report on what's happening when it's not just in the United States of America and
every once in a while there's a nation that gets out ahead of America, believe it or
not, and does the right thing and maybe affects the entire world.
I was just up in Vancouver, Canada, visiting up with some sponsors and donors up there
that have made the high wire possible and we're talking about one of the biggest news stories
that affected COVID and there was a huge ruling right around the corner.
But before we get into that, what was the big event in Canada?
Do you remember the Canadian truckers?
We are in the middle of Trans-Canada Highway and as you can see, the long epic convoy
is passing by.
A lot of you don't realize the magnitude of this convoy and what we are actually standing
for.
As of yesterday, we were well over 60,000 trucks strong and growing every day.
It's time to stand up.
Don't let our freedoms go because we'll never get them back.
And on the way to Ottawa, every overpass is packed with Canadians.
Look at this right here.
This is not a fridge.
People believe that the government has overstepped with mandates and they are
here to exercise their democratic right.
We want all mandates for all Canadians to completely abolish.
We've done what we've been told to do and enough is enough and we're here to make sure
that the world knows that we're behind people.
We want to get back to the way it was, not the new normal.
What we've seen in the last year with demonization of people, the hatred that
has been spewed from the highest levels is completely unacceptable and the people
have had enough.
I would argue that the Canadian truckers was probably the single most successful and effective
act of rebellion in COVID, the greatest protest anywhere in the world.
We had some big ones here.
We had defeat the mandates here in America, which were great events, about 40,000 in
Washington, DC and nearly 30,000 in Los Angeles.
We saw some protests in England and all around the world, but this one seemed to
grab the hearts and minds of everybody.
It didn't matter what country you were in.
The heart felt energy behind these truckers, risking their careers and of
course it was all about the fact that they wanted to force vaccinate them in
order to do their job, sitting in their trucks all by themselves.
What difference would it make?
Well, it shut down public spaces and they were there and eventually it
was declared that it was, I think, a national emergency and they tried to
bring in some of the war powers acts, I guess, if you will, those emergency
acts that were used all around the world to lock down free citizens, to
bring in authoritarianism, which seemed at the heart of it to be the whole
underlying goal of this and this is the leader at the time, Justin Trudeau,
talking about doing exactly that.
We're going to turn this into an authoritarian regime because we have an
emergency.
The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement
provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations.
The scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted,
as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.
Of course, it ended up being anything but reasonable as people started seeing
that the, you know, the GoFundMe account, here is Freedom Convoy, GoFundMe
seizes funds of Canada occupation and then they went after the bank
accounts, Canadian authorities, freeze financial assets for those involved
in ongoing protests in Ottawa.
That was not just the truckers having their accounts frozen, but people that
were donating to the convoy.
We've really never seen anything quite like that.
Certainly that went further than we saw what was taking place here in the
United States of America.
Well, there has been a court case ongoing and now the appellate courts
just ruled this is what has just happened in Canada.
Just a few days ago, this is January 16th, the federal government loses
Emergencies Act appeal.
Court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable.
It goes on to say as disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy
protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national
security, wrote the three judges on the appeals court.
So this was the appeals court.
They'd already won in a regular court.
There was no evidence that the lives, health or safety of the people living
in Ottawa were endangered as annoying, stressful and concerning as the
protest were, reads the court's decision.
This is a massive decision.
I would imagine the government's going to try to take it all the way to
the Supreme Court and see if they can find one court that would agree
with the decision to become an authoritarian nation.
Now, I also want to point out that, you know, Justin Trudeau is no
longer the prime minister, neither is the head of New Zealand
or England.
All of these people, Joe Biden, everybody that force mandates at this level
and brought this worldwide authoritarian regime.
So many of them aren't even in the political sphere any longer
because the people spoke out.
Now, it's really unfortunate what's happened in Canada and Canada
may be far worse than most around the world.
So it's ironic that they had the greatest protests probably affected
laws and, you know, and the energy all around the world.
But they themselves still find themselves, you know, under in many
ways an authoritarian perspective on vaccinations.
So we're going to continue to talk about Canada.
I'm going to continue to go up there and support their right to freedom
because they are just too close a neighbor to America.
We just cannot stand for this.
We've got to, you know, stop authoritarianism everywhere that it
breeds. I guess you could go as far as calling collectivism,
communism, all these things that seem to be hot button issues now
all around the world.
And if anything affects our health, certainly the inability to control
what goes into our own bodies and the bodies of our children.
This isn't a national problem.
It's currently an international problem.
That's why the high wire is proud to be broadcasting all around the world.
We've got a great show coming up, Dr. Joel Gator Walsh joining me.
This is a pediatrician that started in the mainstream,
but slowly but surely watched the foundations of medicine that he had
been trained in started crumbling around him.
We're going to see where he's at now.
Is it possible to find?
Is there a is there a convenient middle that we can all land on
in this debate that is now, you know, gripping America and the world?