Trucking for Freedom: a Documentary

Directed By Andrew Peloso & Jeremy Regoto

Chapter One: How we got here.

 Chapter Two: Winter Wildfire

Would C. S. Lewis have supported the Truckers?

 Yes

Dr. Leslyn Lewis is taking another run to lead the Conservative Party of Canada

From Rebel Media - Interview

 https://www.rebelnews.com/interview_dr_leslyn_lewis_is_taking_another_run_to_lead_the_conservative_party_of_canada?utm_campaign=dc_cpcracekickoff_3_11_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

Part of the Interview

Ezra Levant

One of our favorite people is throwing her hat in the ring and talking about Doctor Leslyn Lewis. The MP for Haldimand Norfolk who did so well in the last leadership campaign. What a delight to welcome her back to the show. Doctor Lewis. It's great to see you again. You can see I'm a fan and I don't even care who knows! I'm not hiding it. Great to see you again. I'm delighted that you're running in the leadership campaign. Tell me a little bit about your strategy, what you're going to emphasize is your issues. What do you hope to accomplish?

Dr. Leslyn Lewis

Thanks for having me here. As you know many people would ask, well, why are you doing this again? And to be honest with you that not much has changed since last time. I'm still concerned about the direction of the country. I'm still concerned about our $1.3 trillion debt now with the war in between Russia and Ukraine.

I'm concerned about some of our environmental policies that we have where we didn't develop our pipelines. And looking back we can see that that was a great mistake. And so I want to report the platform that will get Canadians on track, make sure that we're developing, developing our natural resources. And also that we also have a plan to protect the environment. I don't believe that those things are mutually exclusive.

I also want to see people, businesses have hope again and as you know, 80% of all Canadians are employed by small businesses. And so we have to find a way to get them back, get hold back to them so that we could rebound out of covid and get people employed. Start building up and pay down that debt. Those are interesting points, so of course I I agree with, I mean the pipelines Canada could so obviously be a supplier of what I call ethical oil to the world. So we could displace Russia and OPEC nations. I believe in the economic issues. I think those are very important.

Ezra Levant

But Doctor Lewis, one of the things that has come home clear over last two years is that sometimes we take our civil liberties for granted because yes, the debt is important and yes, pipelines are a solution. And yes, helping small business, that's all important. You can't buy groceries. You can't pay the rent if you don't have those things. But there are some other intangibles, civil liberties, freedom of speech. But I think that lockdowns in the last few years have really showed us the importance of those age-old principles. What do you have to say about freedom of speech and freedom of protest? The recent civil liberties inferno of the Emergencies Act. Can you talk a bit about those? Not the pocketbook issues, but more the heartfelt issues a bit.

Dr. Leslyn Lewis

Absolutely. I think it's very important that in a democracy that we uphold those liberties and many Canadians and many immigrants came to this country because we were the beacon of hope of democracy. And when we have policies and practices that undermine that it really erodes confidence. I was very, very concerned during the convoy protests because I was just two blocks away from Parliament and so I had to walk through that protest every day and I was able to speak to people, people who came all the way from BC and they just wanted to be heard.

And it's not as if they wanted to be there. Some of them had reached out to their MP's, they weren't getting answers. Some of them, they did whatever they could, but they wanted answers as to why the government wasn't listening to them. And they came all the way to Parliament so that they could be heard by the government and nobody wanted to listen. And it was very, very sad to see that the approach that Justin Trudeau took, that he refused to meet with these individuals, and then he labeled them racist, demonized them, and it was very, very disconcerting to see that how fragile our democracy is and our rights in revoking of the Emergencies Act is something that I also wasn't very pleased with because it suspended their liberties and people were very, very concerned that if this could be done so easily, what could the government do? Could they freeze our bank account for other issues that they disagree with us on?

Yeah, I'm really worried about that actually. It really accelerated cancel culture. Cancel culture is bad enough when it's some woke mob on Twitter, but when the Prime Minister, the Finance Minister and the Justice Minister are directing it. And there's no court process. The banks are going along with it. I think that's really terrifying.

I, I remember when you and I last met, it was actually on that very chilly day on Parliament Hill at the trucker protest. It was quite something not all Conservative MPs and Senators went down there, I think. If I had to guess why, some disagreed with them, but more, I think we're scared of getting off side with the mainstream media and I think that's frankly why Erin O'Toole, what happened to him is I think maybe his instincts would have been sympathetic, but he was just too afraid to defy the media was such a strong player in this drama. They weren't just a neutral observer. They were a team.

Ezra Levant

Let me ask you about that, because I think that should you become a leader, obviously Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party machine, they're going to be nominal polling. But I think that in Canada, the toughest opponent for any conservative is the mainstream. I think they first they ignore you, then they mock you. Then they lie about you. And I think in the case of Erin O'Toole, that I'm not asking for you to defend them or to condemn him. I just say when I look at his tenure as leader, I think he was terrified of being devoured by the media. So he sought to please them. How will you handle a hostile media who hate the very thought of a black woman being a conservative. I mean, I think they would hate you triple because of that.

Dr. Leslyn Lewis

Yeah, I I've seen them really misstate positions that I've had in the past and try to make it seem like if I was anti LGBTQ plus, which is really ridiculous because I worked as a refugee lawyer worked in refugee law and defended people who were being persecuted because of their because they were a member of the LGBT Q Plus community. And so I defended it. those people in court. And so far I could see the media has even taken something like that and not recognized it. So I know that they're not my friends, but I'm not here, to make friends with the media. I'm here to serve the Canadian people, and I understand the costs and I'm prepared to pay the cost of that and as you said, on that day that whole day that I interviewed with you at in front of the convoy, it was because I believed that these individuals came here and they needed to be heard. These are people that were traumatized, that were locked down for two years, that many losing their jobs may have had family members loosing their jobs and they want it to be heard and I am being paid by these individuals, some of them making fifteen, twenty or twenty five dollars an hour, and politicians are making hundreds of thousands of dollars an hour. So I don't understand why a politician wouldn't want to hear from their constituents. I think it's very, very important to the part of our democracy. And it's something that I felt that I had to do or else it would be meaningless.

Dr. Lewis website

https://leslynlewis.ca/

Thank you to the Freedom Convoy. You have inspired the World

Cops In France Finally Join The People 

Ottawans are such big babies and you won't believe this. I have heard the stupidest reasons why many people in our city hate the truckers and this takes the cake. It has been reported that members of the Freedom Convoy have "raised their voices" at some individuals to take off their masks. Scary stuff eh?  

It doesn't matter to them that finally after two years of ridiculously forced mandates

that violates our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including Freedom of worship, and has caused so much havoc to the economy, to mental health, and just about everything else, that a courageous group of Canadian Citizens decided to say "enough is enough" and stand up against this tyranny. 

So they come to Ottawa to meet with their "supposed" prime minister to express their views but does he care?  Of course not because they are, according to him, "a fringe minority of racist, misogynist, white supremacist, Nazi supporters with hatred towards people.  

So instead of meeting them, he goes into hiding the entire time and echoes this message over and over and over again, and blames every negative occurrence that happens in the city during that time on the truckers. And it gets even better. You can't even turn on the TV or listen to the radio for the entire three weeks without Mayor Watson, and most members of the legacy media (Evan Soloman is one of the big players) echo the same lies over and over and over and over and you want to take your TV set and smash it over your head. 

There I feel better now

 

Police Brutality in Ottawa and Media Bias

I sent this letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , a few more politicians as well as the Ottawa Police and some members of the Legacy media in response to a video from True North depicting horrible acts of violence by the Ottawa Police over the weekend. I was stunned that I heard not a word about it from the legacy media

February 24, 2022 

To whom it may concern,  

I am not sure who to address my outrage to in this matter because the people who should be concerned are the guilty parties.  

The horrific scenes in this video; the disgusting acts of violence against numerous peaceful protestors including an 80-year-old woman as well as Andrew Lawton, of True North and Alexandra Lavoie, of the Rebel disgusted me to my very soul and not a word of concern do I hear from our Prime Minister, the Mayor of Ottawa our mainstream media, CBC, and CTV, Global TV etc. Nothing! 

I transcribed the portion of the video that depicts some of the disgusting and violent actions of the Ottawa Police on the weekend. It begins around 10 minutes into the video, and I ask that you watch and listen to the entire video. Please take the time to watch it to the end to see the absolute hypocrisy of the legacy media spinning the events to suit their own untruthful agenda. It is absolutely hateful to demonize once again the protestors and ignore the truth and spin everything to suit an agenda. I can't even think of a word to describe such a web of lies surrounding the Freedom Convoy since the beginning including the demonizing of everyone involved with the protest along with their supporters. You know what I mean,

And I thank Candice Malcolm from True North for her truthful and honest presentation. What a breath of fresh air

Maureen Ward 

Ottawa Ontario 
 

 
Transcript of a small portion of the video beginning  at around 10 minutes into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RdwjBsiew&t=132s Unreal use of propaganda in Canada from True North 

What is happening in Canada? Great question. What is happening in Canada? Well, what is happening in Canada? It's a Great question. Well, over the weekend, what did we see? We saw a militarized police zone using undue force using over-the-top force and completely disproportionate force against a group of unarmed and peaceful protesters just by virtue of them being in Ottawa meant that they were the target of the police and the Trudeau government efforts. 

And unsurprisingly, It devolved into a very chaotic, very dangerous situation, so I'll show you some of the low lights from the weekend of police brutality. And let me just make this point. If this was happening at any other circumstance in recent history. If this is happening at any other point in the last two years against any other group, if this was not a group of working-class truckers, of people who said we've had enough of this government overreach of this medical tyranny that we've been living under. If it was any other group and you saw images like this of the police, the left would be on the complete other side. There would be over the top calls for these cops to be fired, to be reprimanded, defund the police, any small act of police using force, not even disproportionate force, just police using force in their job over the past two years has been completely blown out of proportion as an instance of police brutality and why we ought to defund the police, OK? I see people who spent the last two years yelling about that issue are now either completely silent or they're cheering on the police brutality because they are cracking down on a group of conservative adjacent or conservative align protesters. People who come from a working-class background. It is so stark. It is so hypocritical. It is unbelievable.  

• Regardless, here are a couple instances of what it looked like. So first we have a veteran who is manhandled by police officers: knee him several times in the kidney. Here's what that looked like.  

• Next, we have a protester who is hauled away by cops. Watch for the end of the clip because a police officer takes his rifle, takes his gun, and uses it to beat a protester with the stock of his gun and you can see him do two solid blows there with a stock of his gun. This is police brutality. This is totally unacceptable. Here is what that looked like.  

• Next, here is a police officer rushing a protestor and hitting him once he's already on the ground.  ( you can hear people crying for the police to stop)
• And so, as the police were using increasingly violent tactics in order to crack down on these peaceful protesters, they at some point decided to bring in horses for what? To do some kind of crowd control? I don't even understand. This is right outside the Chateau Laurier hotel and upscale hotel, right in the heart of Parliament, right in the center of Ottawa. They bring out the police and as you can see in the kerfuffle in the excitement of police going through a crowd trampled 2 individuals and knocked them over, stepped on one of the women, including an 80 year old First Nations woman.. This is tough to watch, but here is what this looks like.  Just in case you want to see how bad it was Here Is the aerial view and still you can see the horses trampling on two individuals who just failed to get out of the way, you could see from the footage there that it wasn't like people knew that these horses were coming. They kind of came out of nowhere. They whipped around the corner. These two individuals clearly didn't see what was going on. The woman who was knocked over, the 80 year old woman was on a mobility scooter and from the aerial picture you can see the scooter on the ground. So its not like this is an agile woman who could easily get out of the way. She obviously had no idea this was coming, and I don't know what was worse the fact that this was the way the police were behaving and acting or the fact that there were a lot of people cheering them on cheering this kind of thing on and that the media didn't really bat an eye, didn't really bat an eye over the use if anything they were out there saying, oh, this isn't trampling. These people weren't trampled.  

And we had something new that I'd never seen before. The Ottawa police were tweeting in real-time pushing out their own propaganda, their own version of events. So they weren't really taking questions. They weren't really responding.  

Journalists at one point I was on the phone trying to confirm whether or not anyone had been killed in the protests. No response, no replies. I left messages. I called multiple lines. I emailed. I sent the messages on Twitter. No response. Whatsoever, the only response you get from the Ottawa police the're tweeting their own timeline of events in their own perspective, twisting and spinning the facts to fit their narrative of what was going on.  

So here is an example of that, Ottawa police wrote. We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed the crowd, anyone who fell got up and walked away. We're unaware of any injuries. A bicycle was thrown at a horse further down the line and caused the horse to trip. The horse was uninjured. OK, so a lot of people on Twitter were really upset about this because the idea that everyone who was hurt got up and walked away. Well, it just simply isn't true. Here is a woman who was trampled. Her name is Candy, and she wrote this.  I dare to correct the "no injury" statement of the Ottawa Police. I was nearly killed. Again, 80 year Old First Nations woman. Usually, this would be the kind of woman that the left would hold up as a victim of police brutality and they would be on her side and they would be there demanding the resignation of the officers of whoever ordered that, the police chief or the local politicians, but instead, because of the backdrop of this freedom convoy. Nothing. Nothing. No. No, you don't hear anything from the left in support of this woman.  

It is absolutely wild and his whole nonsense about a bicycle being thrown at the horse again. I tried to verify that I looked at a lot of footage over the weekend. A lot of people were saying that the bicycle was actually the mobility scooter. So we go back to that aerial photo. You can see how the horse knocked over the woman with the mobility scooter. And that is lying on the ground. So people were like, is that where you're talking about throwing a bicycle is actually just a mobility scooter. Someone did send me footage of a man with a bicycle. But In no way did he throw this at the police. He used a bicycle to pull himself back, if anything, to stop the police from beating him. He kind of had the bike in front of him. And then you could see him leave. So this whole idea that he threw at a horse and was causing the horse to trip. Is is just completely, completely untrue.  

• OK, there is more. so, here is the police hauling away a protester and kneeing him once he's on the ground so here, that's what that looked like.  

• And so it wasn't just this kind of force in kneeing people and hitting people with guns that we saw. We also saw the police start using pepper spray or some kind of a chemical irritant. And you can see it in this clip, the Ottawa police are just sort of wildly spraying this pepper spray, it's not targeted at any individual. It's not an individual in a crowd who is ruckus and who is causing chaos and you want to target that one individual. Presumably, that is what pepper spray is for. No, in this case, you're just sort of willy nilly just spraying the crowd, getting anybody who's there sort of punishing them for being there. Here's what that looked like.  

So caught up in all of this chaos was our own Andrew Lawton, journalist Andrew Lawton was on the ground for True North throughout the entire weekend. He was doing live streams. He was reporting he was talking to people. He was trying to keep an eye on what was happening in the same way as many journalists. There was lots and lots of journalists from lots of outlets who were right there, sort of on the front lines or a few steps back from the front lines filming this whole thing, taking pictures, relaying the information to Canadians and to people all over the world because people all over the world were watching, so Andrew Lawton was in there he was doing that and for the crime of committing journalism,

• Andrew Lawton was pepper-sprayed in the face by a cop. It seemed to be targeted. It seemed to be aimed directly at him. So here is what Andrew looked like afterwards. Not a pleasant feeling to be sprayed in the face pretty much point-blank, or at least at close range with pepper spray.  

He got it really bad and because of that we, here at True North, I decided to retain a lawyer. So we hired a lawyer we're now working with a lawyer here at True North. We are suing the police for assault and for targeting a working journalist. Andrew was just there doing his job trying to cover this event, trying to relay the information to Canadians. So we want to send a message to the police and Justin Trudeau and his emergency order. You don't get to beat up on journalists in this country. This is Canada. You do not get to do that and we will see you in court.  

Unfortunately, Andrew Lawton was not the only journalist to be the victim of police brutality.

• Over the weekend. Alexa Lavoie over at the Rebel was beat up by a police officer. This is unbelievable footage. She was pushed, she was hit multiple times with the baton from a large male police officer on the line. She's sprayed with pepper spray and finally, she was shot in the leg at point-blank from a few feet away with some kind of a rubber bullet or a tear gas canister. This woman was brutalized and beat up by a cop, all caught on camera. Here is what that looked like and just to warn you, this is pretty gruesome. It is pretty hard to watch, but I think it's important to show you what was happening to a working journalist in our country over the weekend. Here's that clip.  

So with a journalist sprayed in the face with pepper spray, another one brutalized and hit with a baton multiple times, you would think that the mainstream media, the legacy media there would be some kind of solidarity with journalists in this country that you would hear from legacy media saying, hey, that kind of force against journalists is absolutely not acceptable in this country. So did we hear that? No, no, we didn't hear that. What did we hear instead? Well, that the journalists thought it was disgusting? No, it wasn't disgusting that Andrew Lawton was sprayed with pepper spray. It wasn't disgusting that Alexa Levar was beaten with a baton.  What was disgusting? Well, there was this clip that was circulating of a Quebec TV journalist who got pushed on air by a protester. Here's what that looked like.  Incredibly stupid stuff. OK. Whoever pushes whoever pushed a journalist on air is just completely stupid. There's no reason to do this. It is mean. It is stupid. It doesn't help anyone. If anything, all it does is galvanizes people. against you, it proves legacy media point correct that the protesters are just a violent group of thugs and that they're here to harass, intimidate the media and the legacy media did exactly what you would expect and milk every last ounce of that clip that that footage of one guy getting pushed, that is the big story for the journalist out of the news.  Forget about all the police brutality that I just showed you. Forget about a guy getting hit with a stock of a gun. Forget about a woman getting trampled by a horse. Forget about a young female journalist getting beat up with a police baton. They didn't cover any of that. They don't care about any of that. What do they care about? A push? The guy getting shoved on air. That is the main focus.

This is what happens when you have brains scrambled by misinformation,

Well, the propaganda continues, Please watch the video to the end

Maureen Ward

Ottawa Ontario