Fight the Fines: How Rebels Stood Up for Civil Liberties through COVID-19
Ezra Levant is currently on assignment in Alberta.
The coronavirus pandemic is almost over, with a death toll in Canada of 9,000. Each one a tragedy, but much less than 50,000 to 350,000 predicted by Theresa Tam and Canada's Public Health officers.
In fact, it may turn out that the economic damage is the greatest damage to Canadians' health, and I put it to you that the violation of civil liberties was a form of a pandemic too. Or at least an epidemic.
Well, Rebel News did more than talk about it. We fought back, creating our own civil liberties public interest law firm. Nobody else did, with the possible exception of our friend John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
So tonight, in a very special episode, I'd like to show you the best of some of the case we've been fighting with FightTheFines.com.
In fact, we had our first victory last week with Artur Pawlowski, the Calgary pastor who was given a $1,000 fine for feeding the homeless.
The Crown dropped the charges against him completely, thanks to you, our Rebel viewers, and the lawyer you crowdfunded.
