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all right we're just waiting for the

room to fill up

good evening from around the world in

around ontario and around canada thanks

for tuning in tonight

the title of this uh

broadcast uh for for many of you logging

in tonight may be called a preemptive

sls

as you may have seen on some other

social media

influencers out there

there have been a lot of rumors going

around about a very increased

police presence

around

the national capital region commencing

this week

although

we have confirmation they're not here

yet uh to our knowledge

we believe given the number of different

sources that have been telling us that

there will be

a very heightened or increased police

presence in

ottawa

we believe it's a credible enough

issue that we

we wanted to do this broadcast

and while it is not time for alarm

it is time to if you want to support us

if you really want to help out

what i'd like you to do is start

thinking about coming to ottawa

i don't want you to get in your car

tonight but i want you to

start packing tonight

but i want you to start preparing your

families or talking to your employers

and saying listen i really feel that uh

my place is in ottawa this week

i can't give you a timeline

uh and i can't promise you that once you

get here it will have been absolutely

necessary

but

we have concerns

we have concerns that a large number of

police will be here and they are setting

up a

a processing center out in lansdowne

and

we want to make sure that we're prepared

if this does happen

we will be absolutely peaceful this will

not be confrontational

we are cautiously optimistic that it

that is not going to happen

but if it does

we are prepared we are confident and i

don't make that as a threat of any kind

i just say that we're really not phased

by it

if you look at what happened in calgary

today

what i would call an absolute

disgraceful action by the calgary police

today

okay which is something that's typical

that we have seen throughout this

pandemic from that particular police

department but here in ottawa we have

our own set of problems

we've been told

that

one of the triggers or indicators

where we know that they're going to

physically move against us and start

arresting us

is when our media goes down

when all of our telecommunications

devices do go down when we go fully

black

the next phase of this will be the

public order units will move in on us

and start kettling

okay

if you think back to 2010 in the city of

toronto during the g8 g20 summit

and you think back to the fiasco that uh

transpired and

at that event

we really don't want to see that happen

again

okay but from our perspective

we do

we do believe there is a real

possibility that arrangements are being

made to that effect

okay

we will not resist we will not be

violent

okay this is a peaceful protest

but the more of us there are

the better it is for all of us

okay

so if this is

you know what's that thing what is that

one point in history that's going to

make you move off of your couch and come

here and get involved

this is it if there's a media blackout

of everybody that you're connected to

with this freedom convoy

that's your trigger that you know

something is up and i would encourage

you

to make arrangements and immediately

started heading to ottawa

we have strengthened numbers

we have a team of lawyers that are here

to help

we're not phased by this we're not

intimidated

we're just forward thinking people

because we believe we're going to be

here for a long

now

may some of you may be aware that there

was an emergency meeting in the house of

commons this evening

and justin trudeau himself

alluded to discussions

about

large number of rcmp officers that

they're engaging

we do not get the impression

that

they are working towards sitting down at

a table which is what we asked for today

we asked to sit at a table and find a

peaceful solution to this a responsible

balanced

safe solution to this

and so far

i'm

really disappointed to hear

there's been no response from the city

of ottawa other than

cowardly

tweet from the mayor passing the buck to

the prime minister

political theater

i'm here with all these people behind me

and all of you

viewing from home expecting

leadership from the people that we sent

to this city

when in canada's history

has it ever been good for us as a nation

when we have used force against a large

population of our public

when

never

instead of talking we have a room booked

12 o'clock tomorrow

i'll meet with justin trudeau myself 12

o'clock tomorrow

and the other delegates of this convoy

i'll meet with them i'm prepared we are

prepared

all of us

our scientists are prepared

they're dying

to get in a room and talk to him and

when i looked at his comments tonight

the prime minister of canada's comments

and

i you know i forgive my frustration but

he seems to be a one-trick pony

you know we want

actual tangible result

but to sit here and to insult canadians

consistently every day

he used the word swastika

against his own canadian citizens

and his his

constant message is the only way out of

this

is through a vaccine that nobody wants

nobody wants this vaccine because they

want to be protected from

a virus they're getting inoculated

against unemployment

we're here to talk

let's find a peaceful res peaceful

resolution to this i want to go home

i want to go home

but i'm not i'm not going until i'm i no

longer need it here

and based on all the support that we

have from the people of canada i have an

incredible amount of support and a lot

of people that seem to want me here

and i'm not going home until the job is

done

okay i am not calling for violence i'm

not expecting you to get into your

vehicle drive here and and create uh

problems create crimes

okay that's not what we're saying

strength in numbers we got sent here to

send a message the message isn't getting

through

he's not getting it and i apologize if

i'm bashing the guy but honestly from my

assessment he's got a

a 22 caliber mind in a 357 world

okay

let's get at a table for god sakes

enough

hiding

i'm willing i'm willing to sit at a

table with the conservatives and the ndp

and the block as a coalition i'll sit

with the governor general

you put me at somebody put us at the

table with somebody

that

actually cares about canada

you know in a note on that

there's no more mr o'toole

okay

and he talked about an election today

that canada voted for vaccines i'm sorry

there was no vaccine on any ballot that

i saw

okay nobody in this

movement voted for vaccines to be

forcibly coerced into their bodies

that's insanity

okay

i'll talk to any level of government

that can actually get a decision done

okay

because i can see clearly we can see

clearly the liberals don't want to talk

to us

we want to talk to them we will talk to

them they are the official government of

canada

but can you just come and meet us at a

table

please

okay

with that

bridget has a few things that she'd like

to talk about

uh we have a doctor for truck drivers

and those that may not be able to get

medical help

he is the providence healthcare

uh he is a gp that has lost his position

due to covet mandates

and uh his name is jeremiah

hadwin

you can reach him at 1-888-815-1930

or www.providencehealthcenter.com

so for anybody that's looking for a

doctor

who uh

who is also like-minded

yep does anybody have any questions

i have two for you okay right now first

one so what does it tell you when you

request a negotiation

and the response essentially that comes

is rumors of increased

police capacity

well that's a great question because uh

if if anybody tuned into the

live feed that we had done this morning

we recognized the position that the

chief of police for ottawa is in

he has been put in an impossible

situation he cannot deliver and i've

said that this morning he cannot deliver

on on what we want

he is being

somehow

uh used as a door stop uh

in in not

actually

helping things progress in the right

direction it this this action is

absolutely irresponsible on the on the

part of the government um but but to be

clear the police cannot solve this

problem they can solve this problem with

force

right they can solve this with force

but do they really want to go down in

history

as as a police force that is going to

have to now apologize to yet another

group 10 years from now

do they want that as their legacy in the

nation's capital

so it's frustrating it's very

frustrating they just can't solve our

problem we want the politicians they

were elected

to solve these problems that's who we

want to talk to

so my second question is

what would you say to the

rcmp and other police officers

that we know are watching this yes what

would you say to those particular

officers so there are guys that

kid your your children play hockey

together what would you say to those

officers

what i would say to those officers is um

you took an oath and you've heard that

you've heard that repeatedly for the

last two years you've taken an oath

and i think the the public in their uh

their discontent for the actions of

police officers across the world

you know

um have have used that line enough but

maybe maybe some police just need to

keep hearing it again

i would say to the police officers and i

made this officer to an outstanding

ottawa police officer today

i would say if you're not sure if you're

on the fence if you don't know what side

of history you're on here

i have a team of world-class scientists

in this room

and i made the offer they will sit down

quietly privately and talk to you

you're getting an opportunity to have an

audience with the premier scientists on

this these uh vaccine mandates

i'll put any police officer in a room

who's just not sure

with one of these world-class scientists

and let them talk about these issues

because

at the very minimum i'm pretty sure

that informed consent

if you coerce somebody it's still

assault

okay and this is what these these issues

are so

we'd like the police officers who we

keep hearing about individual discretion

on the street we'd like to see them

start exercising some discretion

that doesn't support their mortgage we

want them to support the people they

serve

that's what we would like that's what i

would like to say as a police officer

and we have a lot of them

within our members we have a lot of

police support even active we have a lot

of police support out there they just

can't say anything

and i can tell you when we went to

coventry last night there was no eye

contact with the police officers there

they were embarrassed by what they were

doing

they were embarrassed i know people and

what i saw was embarrassment

uh there's those asking on the live

stream if you guys would give your names

and just your involvement with the

freedom convoy with anyone who's

comfortable

bridgette belton

uh helped create this i guess

chris barber

uh i guess one of the organizers yeah

sorry tamara leach one of the organizers

i guess i'm sean tyson from dc

and the organizers as well

dr roger hopkinson i'm a pathologist

from edmonton

uh jeffrey bovin

running the command center for

communications to assist the needs of

the truckers and people who are involved

with convoy out on the streets

tom quiggin i do protective intelligence

for the truck drivers first we're also

doing protective intelligence for

paramedics and police and we're also

doing protective intelligence for the

citizens of ottawa around us

dana metcalf nationally recognized

humanitarian and we're here for moral

support for the men and women that are

fighting for our freedoms

dr paul alexander evidence peace

medicine specialist

miranda gager road captain from lloyd

minister

brian

dale lance road captain from manitoba

ryan hillitz from prince albert

real captain for saskatchewan uh joe

jansen

manitoba road captain

thank you

tom can you speak to the issue that

we're getting calls from police officers

apologizing for

what's happened last night

yeah without giving away too many too

many details uh we've worked extremely

hard uh myself included with a couple of

uh honestly like my relationships my

personal relationships that i've

developed uh through my my short time

here with the ottawa police officers has

been extraordinary

and i know

we have we've consistently encouraged

all of the truckers and the road

captains and everybody on the team to

build a solid relationship with the

ottawa police the opp

and the rcmp

we're keeping it professional obviously

we're not compromising their integrity

by feeding them

and stuff like that but we have a really

solid relationship with the police when

you know when it's appropriate for

everybody

now

we we did get some calls yesterday uh

some of the some of the police officers

we've been dealing with were pulled out

of the city uh yesterday for a reason

you know we weren't made privy to

but um

they they called to say look we we

didn't know about the raid last night

okay and from

you know what i had listened to um i i

believe the one particular officer he

was sincere in in what he was saying and

it was echoed by another officer to me

personally um they were pulled out they

just said don't ask why

kind of shake their head um

you know everyone at the ground level

wants to go home

we just want to go home

and uh we want to be safe we want to be

responsible

okay and that's really what it is it's

about building the relationships this is

community policing it's just on a

gigantic scale

you know it's kind of like saying

goodbye to some of your friends i

suppose in a way

just one thing as a synopsis could you

guys can one of you give us just a

statement of what the freedom convoy

stands for

unified

yeah

i don't i think hope is a good one there

is a lot of hope

walking down the street with him today

was like i felt more like a bodyguard

with a

vvip right

um everybody was coming up to him on the

street locals locals by the way it's

true we do have over 100 affidavits from

the residents of ottawa

supporting the truckers

telling stories about how they've never

seen the streets so clean

um how the shovels we bought up we

bought 100 shovels

we bought salt

okay

we're shoveling sidewalks

okay crime crime was is down uh 90 in

the city according to one of the uh the

newspapers in toronto

you know

yeah it's noisy at times

at times

do you want to hear horns or do you want

to hear oh canada

every hour on the hour what would you

guys prefer do you want to hear a

resounding chorus about canada come from

nation's capital or horns

i like the horns

i love the horns

but oh canada for sure any more

questions from the floor or doctor i

know you want to say something

oh well i mean if you're

look i just wanted to say something

that's very important that the canadian

people understand

which is that um

when you see hodkinson or myself here

we don't represent

uh just a small portion of doctors

and scientists in canada i have

literally thousands of emails and

telephone calls from doctors across

canada and across the world united

states particularly ontario and rest of

canada telling me look

you guys you hotkinson newporness

you alexander you have been the brave

ones in the career just once but we

stand behind you

we are we are fearful we're going to be

targeted by the government by our

colleges we're going to lose our

appointments and our income so please

please don't keep quiet you wage the

battle you stand behind the tracker you

give them the science that they need

because we know 100 of the science is

behind the tracker so you be our force

on our tip today for us and i wanted to

share that

one of the viewers is asking about

safety

people are concerned about safety can

you speak about that

we've seen nothing but safety since we

started this

i think the the best thing is watching

everybody hug each other which i know in

calgary is not a good thing to do

but we're hugging each other we're not

wearing masks we're smiling this is the

best thing i've seen

in the last two years in canada

i have never felt so much love

i had a couple of couples

i had a couple ottawa city

residents come up to me today and they

said they had to come out and see for

themselves

how bad it was judging by what they've

seen on the news

on the local news and the the what did

they call the legacy news media

they come out here to see people hugging

and handshakes and uh

yeah they were they were totally amazed

absolutely amazing this is it's totally

different than what they were what were

we we've been portrayed as

70 a little 70 year old woman actually

stopped me just this evening out on the

street and she was quite concerned

because she walks these streets all the

time for exercise and she was quite

concerned because she noticed a few of

our trucks might be missing out of some

of the roads and she was quite concerned

because she said ottawa citizens

everywhere want us here and they didn't

want to see us leaving and she was

concerned that we were leaving

is it concerning that city councilors

would use the word insurrection

uh huh

yeah if if okay maybe that's a hot

button issue for me but i gotta say i

gotta say i i've

i've played that recording to uh to

several people in in in the the

hysterics coming out like the comments

were so

as you can tell i'm not usually at a

loss for words but i i was stunned i was

stunned by the irresponsible language

the uh the dramatization

um of

absolute fiction

um and it's very clear to me

that that they're pre-positioning uh the

next moves that they want to make so

they're using very strong language to

set up a legal framework in my opinion

or a policing framework

to give themselves cover to be

absolutely

horrendous to us

and so it was really the the language

chosen in that meeting

was very specific

very specific

uh she said the words um

uh diane dean said the words the chief

repeated the words

uh this morning i repeated the words

so you're getting three people saying

the same set of words but you know

one is to put on a lot of show to create

themselves a legal framework

i said the words to highlight

that

that level of rhetoric and

irresponsibility is just gonna get

someone hurt

she said those things about canadians

i haven't seen her on uh

youtube talking about isis like that

but she's talking about canadians like

that

it was embarrassing

and um

you know it hurts my heart to to see

that kind of language being spoken about

canadians that have the word freedom in

their

name

it's embarrassing

it's shameful we received a lot of

comments on here a video went out today

that said 50 of ottawa police officers

have resigned today

through that i i believe i believe that

to be a rumor um i don't believe that to

be true i i walked around with a couple

of ottawa police officers today and i

saw lots of uniforms so

you know the the number of uniforms that

i saw today if that was only half

they've got a huge budget

i don't believe that's true at all

someone's asking here about the kneeling

at parliament hill can you tell us a

little bit about that it was beautiful

oh about our epic photo

yes yeah um

it was a really really really wonderful

and positive experience we wanted to

kind of help contradict the

misconception that uh our numbers were

small

and that uh we are standing together in

unity um it was it was really really

quite an epic experience it was

there was kids everywhere you know

people got free hoodies people saying oh

canada they chanted freedom you know

my piece is morel and to help you guys

see the more humane picture of what's

happening here but i will tell you that

i would strongly encourage people to

contact the municipality of ottawa

to help us get some of the things that

we need um in order to keep the

situation humane like porta potties and

things like that

there's a huge outcry for those things

and they're being leveraged you know the

basic essentials of life are being

leveraged for um

police you know what they want to have

happen

um at the end of the day we are all

human beings and we are all canadians so

if you guys could do your part and put

some pressure on ottawa city police to

help us keep our families that are safe

in these trucks with the basic

essentials of life that's that's what

that photo was for

was to show unity and that we are human

and and that we do have a presence here

you know and it's an acceptable presence

here we didn't storm parliament we took

a kneel at parliament to show that we

are here and we are at the mercy of our

community and our country to help us get

this done here in ottawa

uh tamara could you speak on some of the

best ways to help people in ottawa both

financially and with support

for the truckers yet we have an adopted

trucker program uh that's adopt

trucker.ca we've set up the kfngo

which is an alternative uh christian

based platform as opposed to gofundme

we still have the e-transfer

um email set up so

also i know up at parliament i was up

there today there's a great big jug that

you can donate cash to right by the

stage if you want

and that money can get to them right

away so and we're working on a couple of

nfts

uh they'll be coming out through uh

parallel economy.com

and uh we'll be looking for an auction

house to auction off a few sweaters with

the

names of some of the organizers on those

shirts there will only be one of each

size

that will be the only ones that will

ever be done so between five and six

will only be

ever released with all these signatures

on them

someone's asking what is it uh what's

the encryption on the hoodies what does

it mean it's 10 7 it means out of

service

and what's on the back oh my god i got

it good there we go she's got freedom

convoy 2022.

i'd like to ask another question

uh this seemed really to be a contest

for hearts and minds a lot of people

even in the green party they have a

large percentage of their members that

support the truckers could you maybe

workshop the idea

for us of the rumors that we hear about

let's say the rcmp coming in their

battle rattle um can you talk about the

hearts and minds and and a shift maybe

what is that

playing into their decision for

increased force

i don't really know from a tactical

point of view that it makes over you

know i i'm not the on-scene commander

developing that plan however i would say

that um

you know the advice that that we got was

that uh they would shut down all

telecommunications prior to starting uh

the kettling

um to start rounding us up

we would we would lose all control of

cell phones or our ability to transmit

it and this is why we're asking for

people to uh to start actually thinking

about coming here no i'm not saying to

come here now but if there's a big giant

uh you you're noticing

a uh a severe lack

of uh social media presence from all of

the truckers and there's there's

hundreds of cameras out here there's

hundreds of live streamers every hour on

the hour

uh if there's all of a sudden a complete

blackout over ottawa

you can you can take that to the bank

that the police have started to catalyst

so can you explain what catalyst means

uh they're basically going to

you know march towards us in the column

and start boxing us in uh to and then

start affecting

immediate arrests um

you know it's it's something that we saw

at the gag 20 summit in 2010

really disappointing we all know how

that turned out i mean the lawsuits are

still ongoing to this day 12 years later

the police did not handle themselves

really well in that particular case what

they did is they kettled people into a

corner and then started uh actually

gassing them

with tear gas where they had no escape

route

right i don't believe they uh they're

going to do that i think they've learned

their lesson all across north america

that that's probably a terrible thing to

but at the end of the day that's going

to be a tactic that they use is to start

basically boxing us in and start

affecting arrests and then take us off

to some sort of processing center

just uh before everyone passes out of

heat exhaustion

synopsis tom and then we'll close the

line

i just think it's really important to

clarify one thing for everybody we are

not occupying ottawa we are protesting

peacefully in ottawa i want to make that

very very clear we are not occupying

this is not our home we want to go home

we are here protesting peacefully

yeah

you want a synopsis

i want to sit at a table with all of

these people

and people that can make a decision

and i want our scientists

to sit at tables with their scientists

and answer

improve

the science that they keep telling us to

follow okay

because from our perspective or from my

personal perspective

all i'm seeing is political science not

actual medical science

and i'm tired of seeing that

okay i think the canadian viewers or the

canadian public are smart enough to know

the difference

between political science and theater

and actual medicine

but the mainstream media keeps

censoring they block purposely

you know it's it's almost akin to

something you would expect to see in

north korea and china the way they

control the media around here and i'm

sorry if that upsets the mainstream

media but you've been disrespecting

viewers for two years straight and i'm

sure even long before it would be great

if they started actually reporting the

news instead of creating it

okay

we have the scientists that want to sit

down publicly

and talk about these issues we want to

get the word out and tell the public

let the public decide

let the public hear both parties and let

the public decide

okay

don't coerce them into getting a jab

let them decide for themselves

you know from my limited understanding

of the law and informed consent but i

always understood it to be a two-part

formula okay i'll give you my consent

when you give me the information

and since these long-term safety studies

are not yet complete the clinical trials

are not yet complete

how can you give me the information

how can you give me the information for

me to take

a decision or to consent when i don't

know the risks and when you're

concealing the risk i know they're

concealing the risk they know they're

concealing the risks

let the public know

let the public know what the risks are

and let them make a free choice which is

their constitutional charter right to do

i want to get at a table

great well thank you all for your time

we'll close the live there

thank you

good job good job

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