James Bauder
James Bauder spoke 542 times across 1 day of testimony.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
The Bible, please.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
James, J-A-M-E-S Ralph, R-A-L-P-H Bauder, B-A-U-D-E-R.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you, Commissioner.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Good afternoon, Jeffrey.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I was born in Kamloops, B.C., Canada.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It is.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Better part of my life, I guess. I met my beautiful wife, Sandy, and moved there 15 years ago, I guess. I've been in Alberta and B.C. my whole life.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I am a truck driver.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Since I was a kid, on the farm ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- and then from there, in my early 20s, and then went into a different career path in truck driving, and from there, I just picked up the wheels a couple of years ago.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
My background started in oil and gas when I was 18 years old, and by the age of 26, I had worked up to consultant level, of where then I specialised in the various levels of governance, policy design, and risk mitigation internationally at the C+ Director level.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I've got a very interesting CV, yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So I don't know why that's relevant here today. However, I spent the better part of my career looking for the truth and auditing and assessing governance models, looking at the root cause analysis of our governance, and then cross-referencing that over to policies and looking at policy design. And then using risk mitigation factorings and modelling's, from there I was able to develop corrective action models for projects all over the world.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. Red Deer, actually.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes. I believe at that time I believe Naughty Notley and Justin Trudeau were ganging up on us, and we said enough of that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes, I did. My role was to represent Unity. I had just started the Canada Unity Foundation and I got a call from some beautiful people and said, "James, this is right up your alley. You should get into this." And that was an amazing journey, just amazing.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What Canada Unity has developed into has been my honour and privilege to serve. We represent and we defend all Canadian lawful freedom of choice by coming together in unity.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s the mission statement.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I find them all unlawful.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. If you'd like, I could elaborate a little bit on that because there is some relevance to this, like, how that Convoy for Freedom was originated, because it's pretty important.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
When I'm looking at my wife, who comes to me and says, "James, it's your job to protect the family," I didn’t know what that would detail. However, I'd just found my faith and I've got recently baptized. And that day I got baptized, it stuck, it stuck deeply. And you can imagine my world going from international -- going -- you know, the only object of news I got was CNN and BBC in an airport. So I have a pretty good understanding of how corporate decision makers and policy makers can get very distracted with the media and not get the full facts. So I made a prayer to save my soul because of all the division and divisiveness that I was witnessing in my country. And the answer to that prayer was Convoy for Freedom.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And to specialize and put unity at the forefront of that convoy. That’s ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
A few.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Hundreds of thousands.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We have a platform, multiple platforms.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. Yeah, I was watching and witnessing the destruction of Australia and our brothers down -- and sisters -- down there, and two factors gave me the motivation to do this. Other than answering and being directed by God on this was A) the United We Roll Convoy, and me coming here and witnessing the homeless in the streets where you can check this on Canada Unity's YouTube. I didn’t participate in the politics because I'm non-political with our foundation, and that’s hard to see, that we're actually -- that there's a definite line there. So I went out and I actually fed the homeless and I made a documentary of it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That was my first time I came here. So then -- oh, in your -- yeah, yeah. So watching Australia start a convoy over there over these unlawful mandates and seeing our brothers and sisters down south get treated like third-world citizens, it gave me enough motivation to step up and do what Canadians do. We are the peacekeepers of the world. We need to step up in unity and show the world what peace and unity is all about.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
True.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You were supposed to do this?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Upwards of 500 sometimes. And then there was -- we made a big booboo when we started. We had all our registration dates and my wife and I were in Calgary with Action for Canada, and we were a convoy of one.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And we got going and then it just got -- it got bigger and bigger and bigger and it just -- it grew.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, I actually made a -- I made a post asking for help, and from there, I got a lot of help, a lot of help.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And I'm grateful for that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I can't remember, to be honest. It was in October some time.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And if you're going to ask me dates, I don’t have -- I'm terrible with dates, so I ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
If you need the actual date evidence, I can provide ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- that at a later time.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So if you want, I've got-- hang on here. Okay. Where is that one that I'd like to bring up?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
If I could actually read my evidence to answer your question, John -- or Jeffrey, if that’s okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
JBA00000043.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And then I can answer that question about BearHug right there. That’s not it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, sir, I'd really like to actually read my evidence that I submitted here, Jeffrey, and that’s not ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- what I quoted. This is not the evidence.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So -- well, the object of the BearHug, okay, let's be honest here. We are in a country of division by design, the very root foundations of our government, and our governments have division in it. So the opposite of division is unity, pure and simple, and we are a country that has got many problems with division. And if you're in touch with God and you're praying all the way through this, the one thing that came to our team, and this was a team effort, I can't remember the exact person that came up and he said, "Bear hug." And we started looking at this from a psychology point of view, and it has been an amazing journey to keep love and peace as an organizer with a bunch of truckers. Brigitte mentioned here a couple of days ago that you get a couple hundred truckers together and, you know, we're a little rowdy. And I know. I am one. So how do you bring together a country in unity that's fighting in division? A bear hug. Love. Love. Love. And if you want, I can give you a demonstration.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Because it was very much evident. And if those that went down to Ottawa or anywhere across Canada ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Sorry, Jeffrey.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Every day.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It's -- we just showed up and ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes. Not -- like, we were on the street, so there is laws on doing this, and the police of Ottawa were very, very helpful. And these are the laws that we can operate within.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Because I've been working with the police all the way through from day one, August ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- every day. And they -- this is what we can do. So we held CTV and, you know, I think for half an hour or 45 minutes, each person, and then we had a little chitchat with them about their propagandas that they were spreading and, yeah, it was lawful.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Very lawful.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. And there was a -- I do remember something, we did two back-to-back convoys over there, because the first convoy, we were told that Trudeau was going to be in the main house, you know, on Sussex, I think, and then he wasn't there. So we turned around and we came back to Confederation Park. And then we got news that he was at the cottage, so we did -- a pretty big convoy size at that point. So we jumped in, and we went back to the cottage, and, you know, the police that were there with us, they were pretty cool, they all started screaming and trying to catch up to us. And then they caught up to us and they said, "James, what are you doing?" So I said, "We lost something." And he said, "Well, what'd you lose?" I said, "Our freedom. We're trying to go find it."
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. And all the evidence and the videos we uploaded for you for that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So the original "BearHug 1", we had been marketing and promoting convoy to Ottawa and doing several convoys all across the board, and marketing when the time comes that the federal mandate is imposed on the trucking industry, get ready. Be prepared. So we thought that was going to come on in December. That's why we were there for BearHug 1. And it didn't happen. So we knew that the federal government was still itching to put this federal travel mandate on and force us to take vaccines just to travel. So we went home, as you can see, and then just as I get into Calgary, Facebook shuts off my everything. They reinstated it. But we were completely taken ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- out of the equation so.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I have the original right here so.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
A piece of history right here in front of me. That's 15 pages. That's not the original
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I need to see the whole document. I haven't seen this ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There we go. Okay. No. So this is the French and English version?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay. Yeah, this was the original.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Martin Brodmann is a truck driver with a also similar interesting past. With his background, he also worked international as well.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It served its purpose.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not since we strategically withdrew.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not since we strategically withdrew.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
February 8th, I believe.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. After we got viciously attacked by this government and slandered and ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- defamed and character assassinationed [sic] and everything.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I think you missed a few more people. Back up there, please?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
M'hm.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Because an MOU isn't a legal anything. It's just words so.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Had the Senate or the Governor General responded, then the next step would have been immediately contacting multiple organizations that we’d been working with across Canada like Police On Guard For Thee, Action for Canada, Vaccine Choice -- I mean I could keep going. We had a lot -- Take Back Our Freedom. We had a lot of groups that we could have very, very -- we could have facilitated establishing the Canadian Citizens Committee so that we could then sit down in partnership with the Senate and the Governor General and address the unlawful mandates that are happening across this country and come some resolution.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
At that point, Canada Unity is out because we would have had a group of individuals that come forward of doctors, and scientists, and specialists ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- and so on and so forth, so at that point, Canada Unity would have been out of it ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- and CCC would have taken it over.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, if we’d all entered into an agreement. This is just a, you know, “Here, we’d like to talk about this,” but it means nothing because nobody signed it and nobody entered into it, so it’s non-binding.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
But that was the hope that we had presented that we could sit down and collectively come to an agreement to cease and desist on all these unlawful mandates.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, I believe that’s right here in front of you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That was our principles that we wanted to ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- enter into.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
M’hm.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
If we had been able to get to that ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- aspect and the committee had come to an agreement that we had proved our case that all of this was unlawful, at that point, then, obviously the next step would be to do a cease-and-desist because of laws being broken, and tyranny, and treason, and crimes against humanity that are listed within the document.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. If we could have entered into an agreement, that would have been -- that’s all we wanted to do is communicate with our government. And we tried every single option available to us multiple times. We exhausted all means of communication with this government, from one part of Canada, from coast to coast to coast.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, we felt that 90 days would have been given enough time to strike the committees and talk to Canada about this process. And then, from there, sign into and enter into an agreement.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. No. No, not even close. In correlation to everything that we would be discussing as a committee, we have the people and the government together, and that was, you know, the best that we could come up with, is that this committee would bring forward on behalf of the Government of Canada and represent the wills of the committee.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And that it wouldn’t -- and so -- in that it wouldn’t be party-related because when you look at the liberals versus the NDPs, versus the conservatives, there’s so much division in that whole process of governance right there in itself that we didn’t want the parties being involved. We wanted to have a direct correlation to the source root of our laws, which is, we believe, the Senate because they make the laws, they amend the laws. And a very interesting part in the Helsinki Act that’s listed in here ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- that comes from the Nuremberg Codes, is that ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- the Senate ---
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--- can enforce the laws ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- when our government has chosen to completely ignore all the moral aspects that come from the laws that so many people represent and defend.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Under the declaration, Helsinki, yes ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- because we signed on to it ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- as a government and as a country to stand up for all humanity and end discrimination and segregation. And it is a law that we, as a country ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- stood up for and signed onto to.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I’m ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I apologize.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, I don’t apologize.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I will. I will calm down. Just this is emotional when we see our government completely violating all the laws.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And there’s -- where do we turn to? The Senate is our last hope. And that’s what’s in their pay cheques and their job descriptions.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct, yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We sent it all over and it’s listed in the MOU who we sent it to.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Enter into an agreement with them.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
With the committee.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. it’s already been sent.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And it was receiving an enormous amount of support. Our servers were going crazy, literally.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, I wasn’t. Why? Was that a problem?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay, so was I.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t retract; I withdrew.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t retract. I withdrew.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And if I had my ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- statement I could actually bring that statement up that I gave you. And it shows ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I can tell you I didn’t want to. And that I didn’t need to. However, we had grown and morphed so fast as a humble family of truckers coming together, and there was documents flying left, right, and centre, press releases, Zoom calls. We were going at Mach II and two phones and 18 gears. And I think, looking back at the amount of work that we were doing nation-wide to come together and put this convoy together, there were so many people that had never heard of me and I hadn’t heard of them. But we were all coming together for the greater good. So one thing that we had done is sit down as a group and we had brought this forward. Martin being the president of Truckers United Inc., had a lot of truckers and yeah, we talked about the MOU. We addressed that it deals with all of our mandates and it’s a document that we’re presenting to the government to try to communicate. And we want to negotiate and sit down and say, “Hey, you've created and committed crimes against us by unlawfully enacting these unlawful mandates. So we would like to sit down as a group.” And the MOU actually addresses all of that. It always did, from Day 1 because two truckers sat down and wrote it. And a bunch of other truckers came in at the last minute and they didn’t get a privilege to -- you know, who here has actually read the MOU?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What’s the question again?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Everybody is ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- get together in Ottawa.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I will.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. If I can just go back in time on that because that was pretty raw.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Here we are as a freedom movement and inside that freedom movement we have been talking about fake media and all the slanderous stuff they do. And how our government uses very very hateful harmful wordsmithing directed at us. And it was never the intention to cause confusion behind this but I love my brothers and sisters that were coming here so much that this meant nothing. We had already won because we came here together in unity, so in our perspective internally the fact that they tuned onto CBC and CTV and Global, which they better be lawyering up because I'm going to be suing them for everything on what they’ve done to me and my family. That’s when it was like, this has gone so out of control that it’s lost where it should be. And at this point I just said, “You know what, team? We’ve won. The rest is in God’s hands. Let’s just withdraw this from a temporary point of view, and sit back and observe, and see where this goes.” So.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. So I just want to put it out there that I want you to all think here for a second here.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
They unlawfully arrested ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I haven’t seen this document before.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. This is hilarious though.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. And we talked about that already, where I said the reason that we didn’t want the parties in was because they weren’t invited. This was just strictly the people of Canada and to sit with our Senate. That was it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So I -- this is just -- this will help me, actually, with my lawsuit when I sue them. So thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Ah, Mr. tom.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t know him.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I don’t know if -- I can’t really recall if we did. We talked for about 15 minutes twice, over the phone and then in person. And then ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Very grateful.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Can I ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Jeffrey?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
For one second, can I just reference -- or Jason, can you reference that paper?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
ALB000 -- four zeros?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
One eight one nine point zero zero.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thanks, Jeffrey. Got it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. And ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, so I mean, speaking of contact with the police, the -- prior to us getting involved, we took this MOU to the Police on Guard for the Nationwide. And we were ecstatic, as two truck drivers, that this prestige, honoured group of Canadians that represent our police and our military would endorse the MOU nationwide. And ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. We were ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Lots of questions.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It’s tough. I like to tell stories.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. We didn’t stop. Our whole team, just 24/7. Every day, we were doing it. We were going and we were standing up for our lawful freedom of choice.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
When?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That -- oh.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, I -- lots of ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- people were calling me wanting in on this convoy.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. What do you -- where are you going at with this, Jeffrey?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Lots of people called me.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
a lot of people were calling me to get -- like, ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- we were already ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. Until the Zoom call. I didn’t know Chris before.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I met him on a zoom.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I told Pat to put us -- so you’re referring to how we all came together as a team?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay. So I believe ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. So you’ve got to be a little bit more -- you know, like if you’re looking for specific information and who I was talking to, then just put their name.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I can’t read your mind.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
He was with the convoy that we came here to Ottawa with back in 2018.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not really, no.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Here in the Arc Hotel for the first time.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And I didn’t talk to her. I’d just seen her.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And I’d never met her before. And I talked to her on the phone prior to launching all this. I did my due diligence to make sure that our trusted and vested interest in this whole movement, one thing that -- you don’t want to put truck drivers with funds and stuff like that. We’ve got enough to do. And we were looking for and trying to recruit somebody that we could trust to handle all the funds. And I remember talking with Brigitte and then talking -- and she had mentioned that Chris was hooked up with her and they were, you know, building a convoy, they were going to do some slow rolls and stuff like that. And I think we’d mentioned that we already had Bear Hug Canada. So that was the -- you know, for those that couldn’t come to Ottawa, Bear Hug Canada would represent the slow rolls and so on and so forth.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Nationwide.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
At that ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
At that point, yeah, we all came together on a big Zoom and ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
All the logistical aspects behind the scenes with our national partnerships that we established that, you know, they were all involved already. And anybody was welcome, because we’re about unity. So we were, “You want in? Come on in.” We don’t care. This is for all of Canada to come together in unity. So.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Which time?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. When we left.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Extensively. Every day.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We had all sorts of routes going on. We had captains out the ying yang that were coming in. The western route was pretty easy to put together. It was the eastern -- southern eastern Ontario routes. They gave us a lot of logistical stress and we had to work very, very carefully with multiple police individuals. And so what we did was instead of working -- I worked at -- with staff sergeants that I'd been working with since August 1st, so "Hey, we're coming back. How you doing? Get prepared." And then from there, they started funnelling police to start connecting in with the captains.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And as we starting bringing more captains in, then we would start working on the routes and the back end so that it all flowed. And if you look at all the route maps and everything else, everything flowed into Wellington.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
OPP, PPS, and OPS.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So I was in -- coming in from the West and what I wanted to do was hook up with Martin Broadman, and I knew that Brigitte was bringing in the crew and our family coming in from Southern Ontario, and it was always planned that she would come in a day ahead of time. And then that actually turned out to -- we had to split it up at the last minute because there was just so many trucks and it was just so large. So that became a Friday and a Saturday event. Then from there, I left to get -- well, literally drove all night kind of thing so that we could get over to meet with the Eastern convoy, as the Western convoy with Chris and Tamara, they're coming in. Brigitte's in with all the captains from the southern area, and there's still more captains coming in on that day as well. So then we're bringing the West -- or sorry, we got the West routes and then we went and grabbed the East routes so that we could all come together in unity.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, we were shamboozled and blindsided because I can tell you, that was not the original plans that we had set down with those police. If you looked at the original mapping, that was well posted, it was all points lead into Wellington, and we had really good detailed mapping on that. So you can imagine our surprise when we get to these blockades that honestly, a real convoy, doing 98, crash the gate, we got us a convoy. We didn’t crash no gates because we respect the laws, we respect the citizens, we were working in partnership with the police. But when we hit that -- you know, the edge of town and we're like, this isn't what we planned on, and from that point on, you know, I got a lot of flak for that. People were blaming me and throwing me under the bus. As soon I got downtown it was like, wooo, and I was like, "I didn’t do this." This ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
For not getting the trucks into Wellington like we had all agreed on.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There was two main routes that were on our maps and our logistics team had put that in and our maps are uploaded into the server, so there again, you'd have to bring those back up for -- and review them all. But it was two main corridors that we'd have, and I don’t have that off the top of my head.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I went back to Confederation Park to start with Unity 1, and that’s where I parked Unity 1, and then straight over to the ARC Hotel.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
A 1991 Glendale Royal Classic that was adopted and named Unity 1, not by us, but ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- just Unity 1, because it was the first convoy vehicle that started this unity movement.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s big. It's a 30-footer.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. Yeah, multiple times.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
From Day, 1 Convoy 1, always keep the lanes open. That was well communicated. We had a code of conduct that everybody had agreed to. It had been distributed to all the truckers, well communicated in the -- and between the captains and the police. We worked in partnership together multiple times, conversations, and so on and so forth, and public safety has always been precedent number 1, always. So anything that we could do working together in partnership -- and that actual word was used multiple times -- partnership and safety.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Where is that?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What date is this?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Twenty-eight (28), '22. Yeah. We lit up the world, and our brothers and sisters down south in the border, all the truck drivers, they started seeing what we were doing and yeah, they were pretty excited and they started convoying down there. And we figured well, when this is done, maybe we'll go down there and we'll give them some support, because they're supporting us up here. So that was what that was about.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Don’t recall. So I mean, honestly, I mean, if we catch them committing treason, which we believe they have, they'd be stepping down, right? And all the evidence that we wanted to sit down with the Senate and say, "Here," you know, "we believe our government is committing treason. Enforce the laws, please, Senate," at that point, yes, we would definitely expect to see Trudeau and -- well, Erin O'Toole isn't any more, but you know, applicable members that would be identified throughout Canada that have committed treason and crimes against humanity. And we will never stop until that is public, and on -- you know, another hearing needs to come as ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, keep it going.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
A tipi?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There was no tipis. We wanted tipis and we could have had tipis, but there was no tipis that I was aware of.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So a couple of days into landing at the ARC, it was pretty hectic and chaotic, and I was very blessed to come across these two travel sovereign clan mothers that I met at the ARC Hotel. And being my wife is Algonquin, it was a very interesting conversation. And, you know, we respect our Elders deeply. And when two clan moms come up to you and want to talk to you, you know, the relevance behind Confed Park is that when we were here for BearHug 1, we had attained the permission to use Confed Park, and we attained the permission again to use Confed Park; okay?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So we had all that in play for BearHug 1 and BearHug 2. So that's why we took Unity One to Confed Park, and our team was down there. And then comes along what I think is controlled op, because what I was seeing from Pat King, and then this incident that happened at Confed Park where this -- what I learned from the clan moms was that there was a fake Chief named Chief JD Anderson. Now he's claiming himself as a Chief, but I find out from the clan moms, who are the hierarchy and the law in tribal, that this was not the case, and that he was running around Ottawa, and there was a ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I'm a trucker. I don't know anything about controlled op and all the rest of that stuff, and a lot of us didn't. That's why we had to call police on Garden and help, you know, get in here.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So there was lots of these little incidents and bubbles of just, you know, shit disturbers, right, looking for attention, so ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I think that got wrapped up in that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And then they did something that is very wrong. They started a fire and a sacred fire. Okay. There's a difference between starting a, you know, a burn barrel kind of thing, but this fake Chief was running around, and Pat's there and all these controlled op people that we'd identified were hanging out, and it just was very greasy. It wasn't -- like, this wasn't our -- you know, they basically just sort of, we're taking Confed Park over and -- from there, that caused a lot of conflict.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Oh, it's not they. This ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- incident just about caused a -- like, it was -- you have no idea what happened behind the scenes, and that took me out; okay? You didn't know where James was? Putting fires out, trying to stop the Indian natives, you know, from going after Pat King and these fake Chiefs. So I worked with the clan moms, who then worked with City Hall. I worked with the police, and together, we worked in partnership for safety, and we had to shut down Confed Park. And I was mad, because had that not -- had that have bent, not happened, the clan moms were working to try to bring in some teepees. And you can imagine, if we'd had some teepees there, because that would have completed the circle of unity. Without our tribal, we have no unity in this country. And they were very much a big part of this unity movement from coast to coast to coast. So we were really excited to get ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- an opportunity, and sadly, controlled ops ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- strayed.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I experienced the biggest unity celebration in my life. And with that, you got everything else that comes with it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. Sounds like a good statement though. That's what we wanted to do. And Tom was entrusted deeply, and we were very grateful for Tom. Very grateful. He was exactly what we needed to help a bunch of truckers out that had a lot of emotions, a lot of fears. We had multiple police officers and agencies.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There was just so much going on.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Like, Tom came in with his background ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- he was a big help.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct. And I actually would like to bring that video up if we could because that shows ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Five minutes. Not even. It's actually quick.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Like, I think this is relevant because it really is.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You -- no.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That's -- yeah, the one that I just ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- that we had problems with.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So I'm just coming out of the ARC Hotel here on Sunday; okay? And this Constable here, if you're planning on leaving, yes, we were. And you can see the blockade of snow where we couldn't leave. We were obstructed. We couldn't leave if we tried. Just down the other side behind Unity One here, just down the road, there's a snow clearing crew coming down. Right there. We're cooperating. Now also, when I came down, I was blindsided. I hadn't even had my morning coffee or nothing and 15 of these officers had a crowbar. They were trying to break into Unity One. I said, "Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'll get the keys; okay? Please, don't hurt it." And I ran back up, I grabbed my keys, I came back down. "I want out." Minutes. Minutes. How am I supposed to get out of that in minutes? An RV don't back out of that crap. I was blocked by Ottawa City crews that didn't do their job and clean the streets.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- just a little bit.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Sure, try there.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Keep going, keep going. I think what you're going to see from here, I don't know -- keep going. There is audio, extensive audio behind this.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So I think because it's already ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- I don't need ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- we don't need to do this.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I mean, I was arrested ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- people seen it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You'll notice that we ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- cooperated completely. And if you got the rest of this you would see that my wife and I were very lawful, very peaceful, very respectful, as we always have been with the police ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Good afternoon.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Which time?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
On the first time, the second time, or the third time? Because I did three nationwide convoys.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Can you just shrink this down a little bit so I can just -- I mean, there's so much, but... Okay, so what's your -- what do you need for a question?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
All across Canada, coast- to-coast, we came together for our freedoms.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, pretty grateful because they chose unity over division.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What I had done? I didn't ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What we, Team Canada ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- had done.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There was a lot of people coming together because they were in pain.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
A Convoy for Freedom, that's what we do. So if I'm guilty of anything it's because I love to convoy and I love looking for my freedom that's missing. So apparently other people, you know, they wanted to convoy too, on their own accords, under the Bill of Rights and ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- Freedoms.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, we started campaigning strategically Bear Hug, which I'm still wowed at how that travelled around the world. It was Convoy for Freedom, Freedom for Convoy and Bear Hug. Those three just exploded around the world, and it's still amazing. It's godly.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you. Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Worldwide. We had the biggest unity movement in the world, and that goes down in history, and that's all of us. Canada, thank you for coming together in unity and showing the world what this is all about. Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Oh, boy oh boy. You're bringing this one up, are you?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Canada, this is the one that you want to look at and download and read because it has links to evidence contained within that link Trudeau to treason.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Vaccinated with the RMNA [sic] gene-altering therapy, yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Right.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, that's not fair.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Sorry, can you back up and -- what was that question again that you asked?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Oh, no, that 100 percent was imposed by this Federal Government as the main root of all of it, and then followed by provincial governments that are so eager for a little piece of the trough to get some money, and then the municipal governments at the very end. So the three ring circus of just total unlawful issue of unlawful mandates.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, I quit my employment because I'm never going to put that ever in me. I don't have any problems with vaccines. I've travelled internationally, I got lots of vaccines. Okay, those are medically approved, and tested, and everything else. But there's no darn way I'm going to put some gene-altering therapy into me that's -- and no way. That's my medical rights, that's my lawful rights. And there is so many laws that are in this MOU that highlight that, Canada.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s why we’re here. We did get it wrong. We chose division over unity. And hopefully we’ll get it right and we don’t have to go down this path again.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I don’t have names. There’s videos all over the place. Like, you’d have to do that research yourself. There’s a lot of evidence out there and if you like or you need evidence, by all means, I can provide. I just don’t have that recollection off the top of my head today.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
When crimes are committed, what do we do? We call the police. Okay? And we had intel, and we couldn’t confirm, or deny, or anything. We just had intel. And any intel of crimes being committed that we could identify, hey, right away, 911. This was a little bit more important that required -- because it just -- as you can see, this was more where we felt that if it was put in a document that maybe it would get a little bit more assistance from the police to make sure that -- if you can scroll to the very top. I’m not a weapons expert. All I know is that that LRAD weapon was causing a lot of fear amongst everybody and it was -- so we wanted to do our best -- remember, we’re partnerships with the police all the way through, “Hey, what’s going on? Can you please address this and put everybody at peace,” because if that had been the case, we would have all said, “No, no.” I would have contacted everybody. I would have stood on buildings and said, “No, please.”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
From the best of -- I mean whatever’s here is what I can recall from what was happening. There was a lot going on. I was just ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. This is just a risk mitigation process to try to, you know, give the police an opportunity to respond and do some ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, that’s the evidence -- I mean we were getting intel that this was happening and they didn’t know where it was, so we ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t know anything other than I got some intel. And I can’t connect any of the dots. I’m not a -- you know, this is just an observational request letter, really, that, “This is stuff that I’m getting. It’s concerning. It’s deeply concerning, and I don’t have all the evidence or the facts, but please investigate and put us at ease.”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I’d heard of some stuff that was being seized and so on and so forth at that time.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, because this was so close. When you get a rumour or a speculate, you don’t play around with this. Like, this is serious business and it’s over my paygrade, and I felt that the right response was to notify the police, so that’s what we did.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Could you come forward or put your mic a little bit ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- because you’re barely -- there we go.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Never.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Actually -- can I -- from that one there, speaking of rumours again ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- we got a rumour that our big trucks down in Windsor -- or the big bridge down there, right -- that the vibration -- so we put a call out, used our social media, “Hey, everybody, if this is the case, out. Get off that bridge.”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And that’s all I could do from my position to try to risk mitigate, right? Anything to do with risk ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- I’m going to jump in and try to take a high risk down to a low.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We’re calling for love, and unity, and peace, and giving bear hugs. I mean violence was the last thing on our minds.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, just two truck drivers.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not take over government.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. They would -- because those are the keyholders of our laws, okay ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- when Trudeau messes up, we’re supposed to be able to go to the Governor General and have a communication with her, or him, or whoever is elected in that position. And when you research into the Helsinki Act, you’re going to find it very, very interesting.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. Well, democratic, I guess. I mean, if you're asking to come together at a table and communicate.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And you know, if they don’t respond, you have nothing, right?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You’ve got nothing.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And you're going to communicate yourself into the wall because it takes two parties to make an MOU ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- become ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- something.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t hear them request it. They didn’t come to me personally and say, “James, would you request this?”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
My wife and the sovereign Clan Mothers, we talked. And out of respect just to say, “It’s served its purpose” right?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
At that point because of other situations with the Freedom Corp where I was -- put Tom in place and then from there I backed off because it was dealing with all the shit that Pat had been doing and everything else. And I didn’t even get a chance to come and talk to the Freedom Corp. I didn’t even know who they were.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Really. I didn’t know who the Freedom Corp was until weeks down the road.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Oh yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, that’s it. Like, there’s evidence our there. It’s pretty easy to find. But yeah, that’s it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Nice to meet the Freedom Corp for the first time.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Nice to meet you, David.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
In 2019?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, no, we came, we were here for three days and we went back home.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I believe we were there and then we were out at Arnprior and then we came back in. I think it was back and forth for a couple of days, honed our horns, and went home.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I was not an organizer in that first 2019. That was compliments of Glen Carritt and Haley Wile. I was there with my camera. And I was a participant. And I was invited to be on the convoy. Because, you know, a trucker and I was just invited. I was a participant. And my wife had told me, she says, “James, this is my first launch of Canada Unity, kind of thing.” She says, “It’s not about you. Point the camera on everybody else and give them their voice ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- and let their voice be on the platform.”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I wasn’t an organizer of 2019 at all, in no capacity at all.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not that I was aware. I was too busy feeding the homeless in Ottawa.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No correlation at all, none. And I wasn’t involved with any of the dealings with the police for 2019 at all. I was just a participant
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Which time?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Was that the first Bear Hug or the second Bear Hug?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
The first Bear Hug or the second Bear Hug?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay, the second, Bear Hug 2.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Can you just back up for a second, please?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
“Take direction from the police whenever applicable. Leave open space for emergent vehicles at all times. No closed trailers permitted on Wellington. All staging areas must be kept on adjacent emergency vehicle.” Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. There’s a lot of maps.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Logistics and planning and all sorts of stuff.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That was a big team that put this all together.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Which time?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I actually came in from the east with Martin ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- and the eastern convoy.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Eastbound? No, westbound.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I’m from Calgary. I don’t know your streets.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
The same three and these maps; I've got a big team, okay?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And I know that they specialized in doing a lot of logistics and mapping and everything else. And just know that I overviewed and I made sure that the main -- the safety points were in correlation for all of our captains. And if our captains had any problems or questions then we would make a recommendation, you know, a change.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s correct, yeah. And all points lead to Wellington.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That was our goal all the way along was take the curbs, leave the centre open for everybody and then we’re there lawfully and we’re, you know ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- parked on the ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, if you know how long ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- a block is and how long a 53-foot trailer is, and so on and so forth, and you do the math, roughly you can get about 30 tractors in there.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Have you got it?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We can pull it up. I can give a reference if you want to pull it up.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What does that have to do with this? Can we leave the U.S. out of it?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I believe that it was rigged.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
But what’s that got to do with this?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. So?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
If I -- if you’ve seen it -- there again you’re trying to make me recall stuff that I don’t have to recall. But I’m going to take your word, ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- that you’ve seen it with your own eyes, obviously, that you’re trying to do stuff. But what’s the point? What does that have to do with us being here to talk about an Emergency Act that was unlawfully invoked by Trudeau?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That begs ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Negative.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, this is Freedom Convoy ’22. I’m Convoy for Freedoms. The original.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
In what respect?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So Pat King, I mean, it’s no secret, the guy is a social media guy. And that’s what we brought Pat King in for, was social media. And he was really good at it. Plus, he also had a background in convoys, and logistics, and stuff like that. So I mean, Pat was Pat. And we don’t have to agree. That’s the beauty ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- of all of this, is that we all had individual rights to be here and we came together as a team, ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- with our indifferences or differences.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
With perspective, what date, when, and 40 trucks? Like, I don’t even ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I don’t have influence over anybody that’s exercising their Bill of Rights, nor would I ever want to.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We’re all free will to come here on our own.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You’re welcome. Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Is he here in the Court?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Oh, Zoom Zoom.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Imposing the Zooms.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
We were like, “Huh? What?”
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Rightfully, yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, that was the last I heard of it, was that report. And then from there, I got distracted and off to another -- putting out something else.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s good. No, I -- honestly, after that, there was a lot of other things and I just didn’t get a chance to follow back on it. but I’m glad that, you know, -- if we were able to help in any way and just alert you, you know, it’s just one of those things. When you see something, you phone Crime Stoppers, kind of thing. So ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- we were just doing our part to help.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you for clearing this up, that we were able to help assist in catching some bad guys.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Nice to meet you, Paul.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
At the present time that we had it going out there, we -- yeah, you could sign on it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And then you would get a digital Certificate of Authenticity and everything else stating that you actually signed it. Like DocuSign, pretty much.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There’s no way I could sit here and recall ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- close to 400,0000 ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- signatures.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No. We wanted to come here and talk with our government. The Federal Government specifically.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. Why not?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Why not?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Because I mean we were here for Bear Hug one; right? And we’ve got all the videos of us exercising, under the Bill of Rights, our lawful freedom of choice and it just proves that when you follow the path of law, you'll find that these mandates don’t have the law to back them up, and that’s why we went with the police and we talked with the police and we communicated with the police. And we got it all on video.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
But they're there all the time, and at any given time, if we had committed and broken laws, we would have been arrested right there. But you know what? The police of Ottawa were really helpful and they showed us that we can do lawful events and from there, we told Ottawa that we were, we will be back.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, we were protesting that all over the world.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Not just in Canada.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, let's see here. So you're asking Canadians to violate and participate in an unlawful mandate. So I don’t want to break the law and put myself in a situation where, you know, like, these mandates are going to be proven that they were unlawful all the way through. And history will write that, not me.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I'd say that the risk of conflict was the day that the unlawful mandates were put across Canada and our government ignored us from there on in.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you for saying they were unlawful.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, we couldn't override anybody.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Couldn't threaten anybody.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Some conflicts all over this country.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. No, and that’s why we brought the police along with us and they handled the conflicts.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay. Sorry.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What date is this?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, if you notice that when we were in Ottawa the first time, we did a lawful blockade, right? So I mean, we are allowed under our Bill of Rights, and so on and so forth, to do, coordinated with the police. We wouldn't have done any of this without the police. I can tell you that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I didn’t -- I didn’t do 2019, okay? That was another organizer, so please.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
You have to understand. That was already put on record that I did not have anything to do with 2019 ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- organizer.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I just fed your homeless. That’s it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, it wasn’t.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s your words.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Because obviously, every other option to try to communication with this government had failed.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Correct.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What do you mean by encircle and apply pressure?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Love, hug.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Bear hug.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
To who? To what? To the people that you're hugging?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Sorry.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah. I'd say that when -- with the reference of the trumpet and bringing down the walls of Jericho.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I have honestly never read the Bible, and I just got baptized last year and I still haven't read the Bible. And I really am a weird duck, and I don’t get it, but that’s the truth.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What does that mean, sir? So did I do something wrong?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I'm sorry.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
With Counsel.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I have heard of it from others.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It was fascinating. It was actually really interesting.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So if you want to get into this and talk about God, so when I got baptized, I was told by God to put this convoy together and come to Ottawa.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
And that’s where I'm at.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That’s different than just the ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- Parliament building where they walked around ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- the Parliament Building because that’s where the evil's at.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
The first BearHug?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, I don't know. I was out in the east, so I don’t know what was happening on that because we had two days of convoys coming from all over Canada, and I was -- like I said, I was with the eastern crew and we got stuck out in the middle of nowhere, and then we had to come in here and that pissed off a bunch of people, and it's just what it is.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thank you.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I'm not trying to be challenging.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Honestly, I'm trying to be as open as I can.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I can play with this.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I can get along with that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Get her on.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No, I thought he was referring to me personally.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah, the questions, yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes, sorry.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I say sorry a lot.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Typical Canadian. I say sorry a lot.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yes.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Get into my feelings?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It's okay. It's okay. I -- still to this day, how I feel, I'm broken but because people come together and they chose on their own accord to choose one word, unity, I will forever be grateful and thankful for Canada, for giving the world hope because we needed it. A lot of feelings and I'm sorry.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Thanks for the love. Thanks for the bear hugs. Keep going.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Was that before I got -- found God?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Was that before I found God? Because you're asking dates. I don't agree with what you're saying now to date, right now.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Okay. That's where I'm under oath.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Today I don't agree with that.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Yeah.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Why not?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It could be a typo.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I don't know.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Could be a typo. I don't know.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Could be a typo.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, maybe it's a typo. I don't know.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
As an alpha male trucker, oil patch, farm boy kind of guy and seeing old little Miss Trudeau there in his boxing shorts, with his juice box water bottle sort of things, yeah, we call him Justine.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Am I free to go or?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Right on. I'm not a -- am I not allowed my 15 minutes, or no?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
There's a video that I'd really like to bring up, and I'm just -- I lost my video stuff, and it's got to do with -- hang on here. Where is the video -- Jason, where are you? The speech out in Quebec. The unity -- which number? Media press release. I don't have it on here. Okay. Is it in the file, or no? Which number?
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I'd like to -- I really would like to have that video of this.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
That's ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
No.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Well, we tried to upload a lot of evidence and we had problems and technical issues and so on and so forth, but it was a very -- that's too bad.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
It was when we left Calgary, my wife and I, and for those that want to do their research in Canada, and look into the definition and our history and our governance in respects to division over unity, when I was looking at all the governance aspects and policy aspects, looking for solution, you can imagine when the word unity was given to me, and that has forever changed my life, my heart, my mind. And from there, I did this little research, because I was very, very stricken that in our country there was nothing really out there for Canada unity. Like, you Googled back then and there was only one reference that I could find as a western Alberta oil patch, farm boy, growing up with this the west hates the east and the east hates the west. And I started asking myself, well, they’re Canadian, aren’t they? They’re our brothers and sisters. Where does this division come from? So I get into our governance and I find out that by design, we are designed to be divided, right in our governance. And that disturbed me deeply because it was -- so that’s when I made the first prayer. I said, “God, what do we do?” He says, “Unity.” What? How am I going to put that into a corrective action? Well, you look at our history and how close we were to dividing. Quebec -- somebody in Quebec saved this country and I don’t know who. I tried and I tried to find this one person because if you remember in history when Quebec wanted to separate and we had a 51 to 49 vote. What if somebody hadn’t raised their hand and said, “Unity.” Because that was the only reference I could find at that time was somebody had raised their hand in Quebec and said, “Unity.” And then there was a Canada Unity flag. And that was it. And I was like, “This can’t be.” So I went on Google and I registered all of everything Canada Unity, all of it -- trademark, all the -- everything that ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
So ---
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
Me and my story -- I try to -- sorry, sir.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- my stories.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
--- idiot would tell it.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
I’ll just wrap it up.
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James Bauder (Canada Unity)
What I observed was the unity was missing and I'm thankful to this day for Quebec for standing up and saving the country and putting unity on to that table. It is my humble humble honour to come from the west and come out to Quebec with my wife and with the olive branch of unity and say, “Let’s stop dividing. Let’s stop the division. Let’s come together.” And thank you, Canada for that precious precious moment in our history.