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So why were the truckers upset specifically? There was border crossing issues, but why the truckers in particular? Because after two years of our Prime Minister calling them heroes and liking them to soldiers going off to war, he decided to implement the cross-border trucker mandate. So unless they had a vaccine passport, they would have to quarantine for 14 days. So you’re taught, especially in Ontario, where you’re, they’re always like, some people are doing this every day. How do you feed your family if you can, if you have to take 14 days off every time you cross the border? It’s impossible. So these people, these blue collar heroes, I call them, that he had propped up and complimented and saying their praises from the rooftops, it all of a sudden become public enemy number one. And that was that was it for them. And that’s telling, because I’m telling you, they went for the health care workers and the doctors. And I thought, for sure, just like my speech, somebody was going to say something. They came after the RCMP and I was like, somebody’s got to say something. And then the military and then the education system. And all of a sudden, there’s all these mandates and nobody was saying anything. And finally, when they came for the truckers, they’re like, no, no, this is not acceptable. So I got that TikTok from Cindy about Chris, and I actually messaged her because there had been a convoy that came out here in 2019 that was advocating for our energy industry. And I said, well, what do you think about another convoy? And she’s like, well, it didn’t really accomplish much the first time. And I said, yeah, you’re right. And then I messaged a friend of mine in Manitoba and I said, what do you think about a convoy to Ottawa? And he said the same thing. So in the meantime- So what was it about the convoy idea you think that was attracting you? I mean, you’re pursuing it with some degree of fervor, even though by your own admission, the last time it occurred, it wasn’t that helpful. Why do you think that idea- Because we needed to bring it to parliament. I’ve seen rallies at the ledge in Alberta, Regina, all the provinces, I’ve seen rallies, massive protests everywhere. The mainstream media was not reporting them and nothing was changing. So we needed to get to Ottawa. And in the meantime, Chris and Bridgette and another group had been talking, should they do slow rolls or a shutdown? And then kind of collectively, basically what it was was a very small group of people that had a lot of similar ideas that knew something had to happen. And so I called up Chris and we discussed the convoy to Ottawa. And I said, my background is logistics, organization and administration. You’re gonna need social media and you’re gonna need money. I’ll start you a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and I’ll set up a GoFundMe account. At that time, I didn’t know that GoFundMe was as left leaning as they were. Oh, I should let everybody know too, Tamara, under constraint by the Canadian government, is no longer allowed to engage in social media. Do you wanna talk about the restrictions that have been placed on you? That’s one of my conditions, one of my very broad conditions. I am not allowed to log into my accounts, post to my accounts, or ask anybody to post on my behalf. If I do, I go directly back to jail. Right, so you’re essentially muzzled on the electronic communications. Yes, that’s right. Why can you do a podcast like this? Well, after the POEC report came down and I just could not stand to listen to Justin Trudeau tell people how he had their backs and he was keeping them safe anymore because my head was gonna explode, Keith and I went through my conditions very carefully, very carefully. It sounds stupid, but I was taking words out and I was rearranging the sentences to see if there was any possible way that I could be arrested for speaking. And what we concluded was that so long as I am not organizing a protest or advocating for a protest, exercising my freedom of assembly, basically, it’s okay. Now, how is it that it’s possible for your right to freely assemble and your right to freely speak, obviously, how is it possible even that that’s been abrogated? What have you been charged with? Let’s start with that. I’ve been charged with mischief, counseling to commit mischief, intimidation, counseling intimidation, and I believe the other one is obstruct a police officer and disobey a court order, I think, which would be the Emergencies Act, I’m assuming. And which of those was the core charge? It was- The mischief. But that was counseling to commit mischief to begin with, right? That’s right. So think about that, everyone. That was the initial charge. It’s not mischief, which is not one of the world’s most serious charges, even though that can be relevant at some time, but counseling to commit mischief, which is like the derivative of a crime, right? So I don’t even know what that means, but I guess you’re gonna find out because they’re gonna drag you through court. How much time have you spent in jail? 48 days. Well, 49 days, 48 nights. Right, right. And on what grounds, precisely? Why did they hold you? Oh, well, originally I was denied bail because the judge, Judge Bourgeois, who we found out later was a- Bourgeois? Former liberal candidate. French? French? Yeah, which is funny that that’s the name. Julie Bourgeois. Yeah, it is kind of funny. Those Bourgeois, they hate the proletariat. Yeah, yeah. So, okay, so he was a former liberal- She was. She was. Yes, she. She was a former liberal candidate. Yes, yes, this is Canada, folks. And she didn’t recuse herself from the case because it wasn’t a political case, obviously. That’s right. Yeah, yeah. And so, and oddly enough, Chris Barber was arrested just before me, and he had his bail hearing and was just sent home. And then, of course, it was a long weekend. It was family weekend. And so, we didn’t have my decision heard until Tuesday morning, but by then she’d watched this entire violent, horrific take down of the convoy protest on TV. And so, when I came in, she went upside- went up one side of me and down the other, and basically said I was a menace to society and a danger to her community. She said my community 12 times. Where is she located? Ottawa. Oh, I see, so you were honking her into a state of frenzy. Oh, I see, yes. Yeah, I know. There were a lot of the haute-bourgeois in Ottawa who didn’t take kindly to being honked at. It’s traumatizing, you know. Yes, it is. You have people whose lives have been destroyed and come and peacefully complain about it after being oppressed by dimwitted moralizers for two years. How dare you? Which was frustrating because we didn’t want to go- we definitely didn’t want to upset the Ottawa residents. That was never our intention. But you have to have some level of disruption. But for me to hear people talking about honking horns when we just drove across Canada, and I had people every single day and still to this day telling me they were planning to take their own lives or that they had family members that had already taken their own lives or that they were living in their car, they lost their business, they couldn’t go kiss their mom goodbye before she died. And you’re going to complain to me about honking horns? Are you kidding me? And so for me, that was a real eye-opener because, you know, of course we always know that we’re not top classes, what we call them now. But it was really the sense, in some cases, not all of them, because there’s some beautiful, lovely people in Ottawa. We had a lot of support from Ottawa residents and a lot of federal government employees. But it was almost a sense of like, how dare you blue collar workers with your dirty hands come and set up- And your ability to do things. That’s the most annoying part of blue collar people. They’re good at doing things. That’s really hard on people who can only think abstractly because they like to think they live in some sort of, what would you say, privileged moral universe where their ability to deal with abstractions is what constitutes real. And then they always end up depending on those bloody blue collar people whenever anything needs to be done. That’s very, very annoying. Yes. Yes. The Bible is a root of wisdom, inspiration, and spiritual nourishment. The Hallow App empowers you to explore the Bible’s profound teachings and to effortlessly incorporate them into your daily life. A great place to start while you deepen your understanding of the Bible is to check out Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a year, available on the Hallow App for brief daily readings and reflections. 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That’s hallow.com slash Jordan for an exclusive free month, free trial of all 6,000 plus prayers and meditations. So shortly after we got there, there was an injunction order. So we did have to stop honking horns. And honestly, the majority of us at the core organizers were relieved because it was getting to be a bit much. When you’ve got like speakers up on stage and people are still honking their horn, you can’t hear them, right? So that was good. I mean, we’re glad that it stopped for the most part. But again, not all of them stopped because there was no bosses. This was a completely organic movement. These truckers just showed up. They’re very strong people. They’re independent thinkers. They have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders. Lots of them are business owners. So they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. I mean, Tamara Leach wasn’t gonna tell them what to do. If they were the sort of people who could be told what to do, they wouldn’t have been in Ottawa with trucks. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So let’s go back to when you were envisioning this. So you were starting to think about a convoy. How did it actually start to come about? Miraculously. So we started, I got the Facebook page going. Got the GoFundMe going. And then we had road captains from every province. So what those were were truckers normally in like Northern Saskatchewan, Southern Saskatchewan, Northern Alberta, Southern Alberta. And they organized their friends and truckers to come. And then we would just all meet along the highway. So one of my- Over what period of time was this organized? How long did it take? 10 days. 10 days. Wow, that’s fast. Right, well so that obviously shows that it was time. Time was right. It was time. Yeah, yeah, because everybody clambered on board right away. That’s right. Which shocked us. I mean, and we recognized within 24 hours. In my head, my vision, I thought we’d maybe raise 100,000 in donations already. And so with my experience with the Maverick Party, I was like, I need a finance committee. Boom. So I got some volunteers. We created a finance committee. And then I was also monitoring our social media. Why did you do that? Because the fundraiser was set up with my name on it. And it was important to me that Canadians that were donating, A, had a sense of who I was, because that’s a lot of money. They were trusting me essentially with their money. And I wanted to explain the whole process, like how we were gonna be accountable and transparent. I had two bookkeepers on the committee, and we had an accounting advisor, an accountant from Medicine Hat. And it was their money. So it was their decision. I wanted to let everybody feel like they had a say in this. Basically, I was running a government type thing, or running this organization, I guess, how I thought the government should be run.