EZRA LEVANT | Rebel News exposes gov't-sanctioned kill pen for ostriches

Summary

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Rebel News Podcast Summary

Episode: EZRA LEVANT | Rebel News exposes gov't-sanctioned kill pen for ostriches
Date: October 6, 2025
Host: Ezra Levant
Location: Edgewood Ostrich Farm, British Columbia

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Ezra Levant Show documents on-the-ground reporting from the Edgewood ostrich farm in British Columbia, where hundreds of ostriches are under threat of culling by the government’s Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Ezra Levant and the Rebel News team report from the protest encampment, offering interviews with farm supporters, analysis of the government’s actions, and conversations with RCMP officers. The story is a collision of grassroots activism, biosecurity bureaucracy, political controversy, and a struggle for transparency. The central theme: exposing what the hosts describe as a government-sanctioned and secretive massacre of healthy animals, fueling widespread public outrage and an impassioned local and national response.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Scene Setting & Government Actions

• Security & Secrecy

  • The CFIA has erected multiple rings of security, including high hay bales, black fences, and police tape, obscuring the cull from public view.
  • A no-fly zone was imposed, drones banned, and farm surveillance cameras cut — measures seen as political, not health-motivated.

  "The whole point of the high hay bales... there’s no health reason for it. It’s precisely so you have to go to great lengths to see the massacre that’s about to happen."
  — Ezra Levant, [00:34]

• RCMP Role

  • The RCMP, numbering 30-50 (per estimates), are on-site, officially to "keep the peace," but effectively forming a buffer between CFIA officials and protestors.
  • RCMP Staff Sergeant Chris Clark confirms they're present at CFIA’s request under a search warrant and declines to discuss operational details (exact numbers, cost, etc.).

2. Farmers’ and Supporters’ Viewpoints

• Questionable Biohazard Practices

  • Eggs are left uncollected, despite "biohazard" claims, exposing possible protocol breaches.
  • Farm representatives argue the situation isn’t about public health but about optics, with mitigation measures (like higher fences) ignored.

  "They’re saying this is a biohazard, but... they’re doing nothing to actually keep the biohazard under control."
  — Brenda Belanger, [02:58]

• Resistance & Grassroots Response

  • "Ostrich sheriffs" monitor and document; hugs are a badge of participation.
  • The encampment is funded by donations—porta potties and surveillance equipment have been gifted by local supporters.

  "The ostrich sheriffs means that we are out here doing filming and sending information directly to the family."
  — Brenda Belanger, [05:46]

• Demands for Testing

  • The farm has repeatedly offered to pay for testing to prove the birds’ health, but CFIA has forbidden it, threatening fines and jail time for independent testing.

  "Zero of 399 ostriches have been tested in eight months... The government says no testing allowed or you’ll get a fine."
  — Ezra Levant, [06:49]

• Comparisons to Other Farming Practices

  • Other livestock outbreaks are handled via quarantine and targeted removals, never mass culls without confirmation/testing.

  "We have animals like sheep... that have disease that is transmittable to humans. But we don’t mass call."
  — Brenda Belanger, [07:10]

3. Public & Political Reaction

• A Grassroots Movement

  • The protest has drawn comparisons to the 2022 Trucker Convoy: diverse turnout, local and national solidarity, and a festival atmosphere.

  "It really does remind me of the trucker convoy... this is truly a grassroots reaction. Love wins. Unity. Ostrich lives matter."
  — Ezra Levant, [09:04]

• Media Critique

  • Mainstream coverage is framed as biased or misleading, with Rebel News insisting they’re providing "the other side of the story."

  "There’s so much theater involved with the CFIA... they’re wearing head to toe hazmat suits, while everyone else here... are dressed normally."
  — Ezra Levant, [53:19]

4. Police Perspective & Tensions

• RCMP's “Impartial” Role

  • Sgt. Clark maintains the RCMP’s neutrality, focused on safety, peace, and law enforcement if necessary.
  • Acknowledges the emotional intensity and complexity, likening protestors’ passion to past conflicts.

  "Our goal is to have no conflict... However, ultimately, we would rather make no arrests."
  — Staff Sgt. Chris Clark, [21:35]

• Surveillance, NOTAMs, and Restrictions

  • NOTAM declared to allow police and, if necessary, their own drones; restricts others under the banner of operational security.

  "A NOTAM is put in place for police operation like this because we need to be allowed to have unfettered airspace."
  — Staff Sgt. Chris Clark, [24:05]

• Morale & Position

  • The RCMP "built relationships" with protestors and describes the crowd as “mostly peaceful,” with occasional exchanges of words rather than violence.

  "Over the past couple weeks... there's been, you know, overall mostly peaceful crowd."
  — Staff Sgt. Chris Clark, [28:11]

5. Underlying Motives & Global Implications

• Therapeutic Research Angle

  • Ostriches are not food animals; their eggs are used in research for non-mRNA therapeutics (potentially offering alternatives to current vaccine technologies).
  • Noted U.S. figures (e.g., Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) have publicly objected to the cull, asserting scientific and trade importance.

  "Their eggs were being used for antibody viral therapeutic research... RFK Jr. said they want to move away from the leaky vaccines."
  — Drea Humphrey, [36:58]

  "These birds may contain a therapy for different diseases... maybe that’s the reason the government wants to wipe them out."
  — Ezra Levant, [53:53]

• International Attention

  • The story has reached audiences in the U.S., China, Holland, and elsewhere, seen as a touchstone issue for animal rights, scientific freedom, and resistance to opaque bureaucracy.

6. Notable Emotional Moments & Quotes

• Heartbreak as an Ostrich Dies Alone

  • Farm supporters react with anguish as they are barred from comforting a dying bird, symbolizing what they argue is cruelty and bureaucratic indifference.

  "She’s dying alone. We would have never let them die alone... She’s dying because we spoke up. She’s dying because of trade politics."
  — Katie, [59:32]

  "This is animal cruelty. They’re hiding. Canadian food inspection agencies hide behind your yellow tape."
  — Katie, [61:39]

• Ezra’s Closing Appeal

  • Levant underscores the story as emblematic of a wider transparency crisis in Canada, questioning the logic and motives of the operation:

  "There’s something very wrong in Canada when you have 30, 40, 50 police taken off of fighting crime and put onto fighting ostriches who are completely healthy."
  — Ezra Levant, [54:36]

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |------------|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:34 | Ezra Levant | "The whole point of the high hay bales... it’s so you have to go to great lengths to see the massacre that’s about to happen." | | 02:58 | Brenda Belanger | "They’re saying this is a biohazard, but... they’re doing nothing to actually keep the biohazard under control." | | 06:49 | Ezra Levant | "Zero of 399 ostriches have been tested in eight months... The government says no testing allowed or you’ll get a fine." | | 09:04 | Ezra Levant | "It really does remind me of the trucker convoy... this is truly a grassroots reaction. Love wins. Unity. Ostrich lives matter." | | 21:35 | Sgt. Chris Clark | "Our goal is to have no conflict... However, ultimately, we would rather make no arrests." | | 24:05 | Sgt. Chris Clark | "A NOTAM is put in place for police operation like this because we need to be allowed to have unfettered airspace." | | 36:58 | Drea Humphrey | "Their eggs were being used for antibody viral therapeutic research... RFK Jr. said they want to move away from the leaky vaccines." | | 53:53 | Ezra Levant | "These birds may contain a therapy for different diseases... maybe that’s the reason the government wants to wipe them out." | | 59:32 | Katie | "She’s dying alone. We would have never let them die alone... She’s dying because we spoke up. She’s dying because of trade politics." | | 61:39 | Katie | "This is animal cruelty. They’re hiding. Canadian food inspection agencies hide behind your yellow tape." | | 54:36 | Ezra Levant | "There’s something very wrong in Canada when you have 30, 40, 50 police taken off of fighting crime and put onto fighting ostriches who are completely healthy." |

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Significant Segments & Timestamps

• Farm tour, security barriers, overview: [00:00]–[03:32]
• Protocol criticisms, handling of eggs: [02:33]–[04:50]
• Discussion of fines, forbidden testing: [06:35]–[07:10]
• Parallel to trucker convoy and protest camp: [09:04]–[12:59]
• RCMP interview (Chris Clark)—mandate, numbers, NOTAM, morale: [16:28]–[29:47]
• Therapeutic ostrich research & international attention: [36:31]–[37:53]
• Political response—cross-party voices: [41:54]–[44:30]
• Emotional appeal as ostrich dies alone: [59:16]–[62:29]
• Closing remarks and meta-commentary: [53:53]–[64:03]

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Tone & Style

The podcast maintains a tone of righteous indignation, empathy for the farmers and animals, and skepticism toward official government actions. The mood is part investigative, part grassroots rally, and often rawly emotional—particularly during discussions of animal suffering and testimonies from those directly affected.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Ezra Levant Show paints a vivid picture of a rural community in resistance, set against the backdrop of government overreach and obfuscation. The show blends reporting, advocacy, and activism, aiming to uncover and challenge what it sees as bureaucratic cruelty thinly veiled behind public health justifications. Through first-hand accounts, in-depth interviews, and appeals to broad solidarity, it calls for transparency, common sense, and compassion—while inviting listeners to actively participate, support the coverage, and, above all, to "not put their heads in the sand."

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For more on this unfolding story, visit savetheostriches.com and browse Rebel News' ongoing coverage.

Transcript

[Ezra Levant]

Tonight, feathers up, everybody. I'm out here at the Edgewood ostrich farm. It's October 6th and this is the Ezra Lebant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. Hi, everybody. I've climbed up a hill that's about a mile away from where the ostriches are. And if you see, when I turn slowly, you can see some people along the road looking sort of like I am trying to get a better vantage. And over there you can see this sort of like a prison, really. Different rings of security. The ostriches have no idea what they're in for. They just think they're out there having a lark. But you can see the tents set up by the CFIA and the whole point of the high hay bales. There's no scientific reason for it, there's no health reason for it. It's precisely so. You have to go to great lengths to see the massacre that's about to happen. That's why the police put in a no fly zone overhead, banning any drones. I don't know why the police would do political errands like that. I understand police wanting to keep the piece, but in this case, you have the RCMP providing a protective ring around the cfia. And they're not building a protective ring, they're building an optical ring so you can't see through it. As soon as the courts approve, there will be hundreds of birds killed very quickly. And the CFIA wants that to be done in secret. That's why they illegally blurred and cut the surveillance cameras. That's why they brought in those massive bales of hay. And that's why they're building an optical solution, not a medical solution, a political solution. I'm going to head on back down. Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. I'm standing above the ostrich farm on a bit of a hill, zooming in on my camera, and you might be saying, what are all those things? It looks like sort of a castle made of bales of hay. And then there's a black fence. And you can see those little dots are the ostriches. You can see some police vehicles. Those tents are from the Canada Food Inspection Agency. And what we're looking at here, and you can see some people are stopped on the road.

[Brenda Belanger]

Okay, so this is the back section of the farm here that we where we have the ostriches. So basically, from this pole right here where the tent is going this way, we have access that we can see the birds that are in here. Once you go past that white tent, you can't see anything at all. The other concern that we had, like on the other side of there is the camp that we're set up at. One of the concerns we had is one of the ostriches turned around and laid an egg three days ago.

[Ezra Levant]

Oh, yeah.

[Brenda Belanger]

And they haven't even so much as went and picked it up. They're saying that this is a biohazard, but yet at the same time, they're doing nothing to. To actually keep the biohazard under control. Like, why would you leave an egg, you know, out in the open? That much of a concern. There is a freezer in the barn. From what I've understood, that they are supposed to collect the eggs and put them into. So again, they're not following protocol or safety standards on that standpoint as well.

[Ezra Levant]

And hang on, you can get a ticket for that. Just to let you know.

[Katie]

Okay, 368 bucks.

[Ezra Levant]

All right, Come and get it.

[Brenda Belanger]

That has been working with the farm. So because of everything that happened with Katie and Karen and them being arrested, the way that it works now is Jeff or Dave has to bring the. The electrolytes down, handed off to the liaison rcmp. The RCMP then turn around and take it down to the cf, administer the liquids, and then they turn around and bring the bag up and then it gets passed off to Jeff again. And then Jeff has to bring it up to the house so that it's cleaned and started all over. So this is part of the farm here. Where you can see this is some of the RCMP set up out in the field over here. So they turn around and go in this way they can. There's a little entrance up at the top where they can make their way in through the back. So there's a field entrance here. So they can go straight up the prop the tree line here and go through the back of the ostrich farm is the way that it works. And then we were over on the other side. So it goes right over to the other road where we did the U turn at, which is quite a ways over. So there's a lot of room here, like I said, for the birds.

[Ezra Levant]

Right.

[Brenda Belanger]

And again, you know, if. If it was all about safety and protocol, they could turn around and say, okay, this is what you have to do to keep your birds. Like I said, they could turn around and put. Go up like 15 foot. We do this for elk anyway, where we have 18 foot fences and stuff. So we could turn around and put an 18 foot fence up and then put net over top or Whatever needs to be done so that we don't have wild birds coming in and, and that would turn around and alleviate them saying well you know, it's passed through birds, wild birds and such. So this is the liaison. If you focus over here, they are actually mating. You can see Karen and Katie talking to them at this point. So let's move up a little bit further.

[Ezra Levant]

Well, I am here with Brenda Belanger who has come in from. Well you're originally from Ontario but you're in Alberta now.

[Brenda Belanger]

I'm in Alberta now.

[Ezra Levant]

You know, a lot of people have come in from across the country. I want to ask you, what does ostrich sheriffs mean? What's an ostrich sheriff?

[Brenda Belanger]

The ostrich sheriffs means that we are out here doing filming and sending information directly to the family as well as we have our eyes open for any type of infiltration that's coming through. You know, again we're standing in unity and we are being proactive. So we do have people that's coming through. And in order to get, there's also an auction going on for stockings as well. And you get one of these stickers. But in order to get the stickers and the actual pins, you actually have to turn around and get a hug. You have to turn around and get hugs.

[Ezra Levant]

So I've been hugging quite a lot. And it's not just cuz I'm sort of squishy. I. There's been a lot of hugs going around today. We're joking around and. And you just sort of. I think that's sort of way of saying you're, you're sort of a deputy volunteer. Is that right?

[Brenda Belanger]

Sure, yeah, yeah.

[Ezra Levant]

But let me show you there's some real law and order. I, I already showed folks some of the police, but apparently there's a $200,000 fine and six months in jail if they draw blood. Isn't that crazy?

[Brenda Belanger]

If they test their own birds.

[Ezra Levant]

And here's another sign. Zero of 399 ostriches have been tested in eight months. And that's the crazy thing is that these bureaucrats have come in from Ottawa. They want to kill all the birds because they say they're a menace. The farm says test them. The government says no testing allowed or you'll get a fine.

[Brenda Belanger]

The ironic part is I'm a farmer as well. And what I'm seeing from a farm scale standpoint is the fact that they're cherry picking. They are honestly cherry picking. We have animals like sheep and goats and horses that actually have disease that is transmittable to humans. But we don't mass call, okay?

[Ezra Levant]

You just take out the animals that are infected.

[Brenda Belanger]

Well, what we have to do is we quarantine the whole farm. Okay? I'll use the horses as an example. With strangles we turn around and we have to basically disinfect our farm daily. Every water bucket, every feed bucket until it's, until it's cured. So it's not killed, but they're not killed. And then we have to turn around after we've had all the animals healthy or what seems healthy, they have to pin for three months and test these animals to make sure that there is no other cases before the animals can even leave our farm.

[Ezra Levant]

Well, would you look at that, a couple of frisky ostriches. Isn't that fun? But what's all this? What's all that? Well, that's police line do not cross. Because if we turn around a little bit, there's 1, 2, 3, 4 police cars, a whole bunch of cops not letting us get any closer to the ostrich. And those ostriches have no idea what's coming for them. If the court system does what I fear it might do, every single bird in this farm is going to be killed. The RCMP won't do the bird killing. They're here to stop the hundreds of citizens that have come out in support of the birds from interfering with the cull, which is being done at the hands of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, an Ottawa run bureaucracy. The cops are here basically to stop the people from tearing the Ottawa bureaucrats to shreds. Bizarrely though, the cops seem to abide lawbreaking from the Food Inspection agency themselves, including disabling the surveillance cameras that the farmers put up. And astonishingly, the food inspectors have set up huge barricades so that when they do the killing of these hundreds of birds, it will evade the cameras of these citizen journalists. It's a bad faith exercise all around, but for at least now, those birds are frolicking. Hi everybody. Ezra Levant here at the ostrich farm in central B.C. that is under siege by I would estimate 50 RCMP officers and a smaller contingent of agricultural bureaucrats who are the actual kill force that have come to, well, massacre if you want a hostile word. Hundreds of birds, because almost a year ago a couple of them had the sniffles. They got better though. And all the birds have what's called herd immunity. Literally. But still the government seeks to kill every one of them, even though the farm says they're all Healthy. We're happy to test them. That's part of the madness here. But I want to show you the popular response because it really does remind me of the trucker convoy. The. I don't know if you can see. I'll hold the camera up there. And this isn't even a full turnout. This is who we have right now. But the number waxes and wanes every day. Lots of homemade signs and T shirts and stickers. Discovery over destruction. Ostriches or hostages of the CFIA herd. Immunity ignored. There's lots of artwork as well. That's actually quite well done. There's funny T shirts too. Messages of all sorts. I'm gonna. I mean, this is truly a grassroots reaction. Love wins. Beyond the divide. Unity. Ostrich lives matter. You will regret what you're doing. Freedom. Save ostriches. Save ourselves. Only evil comes after the innocent. Please come join us. Save the ostrich. Science the cure. Feathers need freedom. If your child got sick in your family, would you kill the whole family? That's pretty brutal. But that's what we're talking about here. No farmers, no food. CFIA prepares for cull. Protect our farmers. The whole world is watching. That, I can tell you, is true. Facts, not fear. We are healthy. We are strong. We are beautiful. We demand testing. We demand the truth. And that's the thing the farmers have said, look, these birds are fine. Here's a few of them going for a bit of a run. Look at that. They have no idea what's coming for them. I hate to say it. Anyhow, people here have been camping out. Our friend Tamara Leach was here the other day with a concert. It really has a peaceful, earthy vibe. Here some more. Every child matters. And these are the names of different ostriches. I'm told that the ostriches have names. Why not? Your pets have names. Farmers sometimes give their cows names. Save the ostriches. These are different names of hostages. You can see of ostriches. Excuse me. Look at them. Here's one going back and forth. They're funny critters. And because they're so big, they've got a personality. And you can see why people have grown attached to them. Now, one of the reasons for these tall structures, if you can see this scaffolding here, and then there's a scissor lift, I think that's what they call that orange device there is because like I mentioned earlier, the government has set up these very tall line of sight. Barricades have nothing to do with health, nothing to do with Science or safety have everything to do with stopping people from filming the massacre of the birds. They've even put in place a no fly zone to stop people from sending drones or helicopters. That's got nothing to do with health and safety. It's got everything to do with. This is a political exercise and everybody knows it here.

[Drea Humphrey]

The only difference between this is your enemies across coming the line.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

You have to.

[Drea Humphrey]

They actually look at you in the eye. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will not come to the fence. Will not look at us in the eye. And that is cowardice. Look at us in the eye. You tell us that that animal's doing well, you look at us in the eye.

[Ezra Levant]

I got one more question, if you don't mind me asking. What is. What is this device here? I think I know. I think I know, but help me out, Alberta.

[Brenda Belanger]

Okay, so they cut our surveillance out here at the farm. As you probably aware. They went in, they used tree trimmers, those big, long tree trimmers they used. So the company out of Alberta called Alberta Portable Surveillance Solutions has provided us surveillance as well as the Internet. They blocked us. So this is all run off of Sterling. And this is just one of the companies that has supported the farm. We also have the porta potties that are absolutely everywhere. They're. They've been donated to us. They're coming in and cleaning my forest.

[Drea Humphrey]

For free as well.

[Ezra Levant]

Well, that's good.

[Brenda Belanger]

It is absolutely amazing considering there's probably a good 12 to 15 of them here on the farm. Okay, you don't want those three. No. And they're coming in for free and they dumping them for us because they're supporting. They are local farmers supporting farmers. Sun Belt was another one that was absolutely amazing. They turned around and they had a contract. They decided that they did not want any part of the contract. They were looking at the future and the fact that this is their community.

[Ezra Levant]

Wow. All right, Alberta.

[Brenda Belanger]

Portable surveillance.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah, for sure.

[Brenda Belanger]

This has been amazing. We have two of them. We have this one here. We have another one down at the end.

[Ezra Levant]

Wow. I do.

[Drea Humphrey]

Can you see the egg in there?

[Brenda Belanger]

They're not an egg yet.

[Drea Humphrey]

No.

[Ezra Levant]

Behind the light, sir.

[Drea Humphrey]

They're making a.

[Ezra Levant]

It.

[Brenda Belanger]

Kitchen set up, as you can see, completely clean, sanitized. Take you up for review in our kitchen. These are our wonderful ladies that do the cooking for us. This is Ezra Levant.

[Ezra Levant]

Hi, how are you? What you cooking?

[Katie]

I don't know, buddy.

[Brenda Belanger]

I don't know, buddy.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

But we'll get you.

[Ezra Levant]

Ezra Levant here at the ostrich farm. I'm with Staff Sergeant Chris Clark of the rcmp, who I really appreciate you've come down to give me some information. I know you've spoken to my colleague, Dre Humphrey. I appreciate that Rebel News Armada was telling the other side of the story, and we're sympathetic to the ostrich farm and even the ostriches, but it behooves us to get your side of the story if the police indeed have a scene side. Maybe you could start by telling us who's here on behalf of the RCMP and what your mandate is.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Yes, well. So any situation where there's protest, we are an impartial party. So in this particular case, we're on site at the request of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. And our role here specifically is public safety. It's keep the peace and to enforce the law if necessary.

[Ezra Levant]

Now, I spoke to some of the other officers. They're coming in from pretty far afield. I mean, it looks like a pretty big operation. Are you at liberty to disclose how many RCMP are involved?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

We don't speak to numbers specifically for operational security reasons. What I can tell you is there are a number of different support units under the Critical Response Unit here. So overall operation is conducted by Critical Response Unit, which responds to such things as wildfires, floods, things of that nature, as well as protests. Those support services that you may have seen over the last couple weeks, we have remote pilot aircraft system. Obviously, we've got some medics here, among others. So to ensure that we don't compromise public safety in any one community, we bring. Bring in officers from across the province.

[Ezra Levant]

Looks like a pretty big operation. One officer said more than 30, and you just described other. You know, the ambulance, which I think I saw drive by. How long you guys been out here? A couple weeks now.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So we arrived early morning on September 22nd.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

And we will remain on site until CFIA concludes their business.

[Ezra Levant]

Can I ask, maybe you don't know the answer. Who's paying for that? Because, you guys, you know, I'm guessing there's some overtime. I'm guessing there's some hotels and restaurants. And even if it is just 30, and I suspect it's probably more, that's a pretty big operation.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

I don't have that specific.

[Ezra Levant]

The cfia, Would they have contacted you or. Or would like, who said, hey, bring all the RCMP down? Does the CFI have the power to do that, or was that a decision by the Solicitor General? Maybe.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So to be clear, this is a CFIA operation.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

And so it's a Search warrant that they've executed, and we're here at their request.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay. Now, this police line that says do not cross the yellow tape there. Can I ask why that tape is there and by what authority?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Okay, so the property north of Lazio Road here, here is subject. Subject to a search warrant under the Health of Animals Act.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay, but surely you've searched it in the last two weeks now.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Okay. With any search warrant, we secure the property. Search or sorry, quote, unquote search. That search could take days, weeks, months. It depends on what the needs. Needs to take place. So with a. Let's compare it. I mean, usually do a. Conduct a search warrant on, say, a residence for, you know, a drug investigation or a homicide, we will secure that property and only release it once we're completed what we need to do inside.

[Ezra Levant]

But are you gathering evidence? Like, I mean, really, it's just whether or not these four several hundred birds will be cuddled. There's no. It's not like you're protecting evidence in it, but crime scene is it. I mean, I. I just feel like it's a. It's a turf grab that. I mean, I understand the power of the search warrant. It just seems odd that it's being used to keep people out from a vast area when there's no. There's no sort of searching going on.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So again, to be clear, this is a CFIA search warrant that they've executed.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

And we've sec. We're here to secure the property until the conclusion of CFI here business.

[Ezra Levant]

All right, I have to study that a little bit more. It sounds like you're pretty dissolved on the matter. Now. There's an enormous number of people here, and I understand it grows and waxes and wanes. Obviously, you guys want to make sure there is zero injuries, zero con, conflict and confrontation. I'm guessing maintain peace and order is your top goal. Do you feel like that you're going to be able to accomplish that? Because there's some people who hear very passionate about the animals and might try some civil disobedience. I don't have any information. I just. Some of these people here are very emotionally moved by these birds and they feel there's a grave injustice. What. What is your strategy for assisting the CFIA in a manner that does not cause human casualties?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So, as I mentioned earlier, our rule here is public safety, keep the peace and enforce the law if necessary. So you mentioned this is a large operation. We have a number of resources here. It's a large property, so we're Here to secure that property from intrusion or what have you. Certainly, our goal is to have no conflict, no confrontation, no violence with respect to the protesters here, here. That would be the ideal situation. I can't say if there will be, you know, based on what people are saying, we're prepared to make arrests if necessary, to enforce a law if necessary. However, ultimately, we would rather make no arrests.

[Ezra Levant]

A week or two ago, a farmer nearby. Let's two rebel news reporters get in a helicopter and take some images from above which showed, I think, some interesting developments on the police side. I understand that there's now a ban on drones and airplanes. Is that accurate?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So there was actually a. What's called a notam, or a notice to Airmen at the time that the helicopter was up last week. However, it wasn't very big.

[Ezra Levant]

So what was it?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

The notam. So it only goes to a certain elevation and its radius is only so big. So we were aware of the helicopter. It did not.

[Ezra Levant]

Okay, so for clarity, then it. A helicopter could still observe if it was of a sufficient height, yes.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Currently, the current. The current notam is unchanged to my.

[Ezra Levant]

Is would that allow certain drones to be used as well? Do you know how high it goes? Maybe it's not your department.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

It's not a question for me. I'm not an expert on. On drones.

[Ezra Levant]

The reason I'm asking is because it doesn't seem like a safety issue. It seems like a, you know, to be pejorative, a sneakiness issue. I saw some of the CFIA cops in full hazmat suits blocking the farm surveillance cameras, and I thought, what's that got to do with the health and safety of the birds? And if they're bringing in these NOTAM rules against drones, I'm thinking maybe a drone buzzing near a bird would upset it. But it seems to me like the Food Inspection Agency are trying to do something in the dark and stop people from seeing. That's how it looks to me. Am I wrong on that?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So we'll go to the notam, and a notam is put in place for police operation like this because we need to be allowed to have unfettered airspace. So we will put drones in the air, we will have potentially helicopters in the air, and we need. Need to be able to operate safely. So that's. That's strictly why the notam is put in place. I can't speak to the questions about cfa, so whatever business they're doing, that's questions for them.

[Ezra Levant]

Is there a spokesman for the CFIA here?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So they have their own comms team. I'm not sure. I don't believe they're here, but they're. They're answering questions through their board.

[Ezra Levant]

In a way, you're sort of in a pickle because you're not the guys doing the dirty deed, but you're the buffer and you're the ones most visible. I haven't, I've only been here briefly, but I haven't seen any cfia. Do they interact with the people here at all?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Well, they're operating within the yellow search zone, so that's. That's mostly where they're. They're focused. And you are correct. We're the. We're the ones that are visible here. So it's important to understand that this is a CFIA operation. We're here simply to keep the peace, public safety, and if. If, if necessary, enforce the law.

[Ezra Levant]

If the owners of the farm tried to restart the surveillance cameras, would that be something that you would impede? And I, again, I. I haven't spoken them about this. I'm just thinking for protecting people from intruding in the zone. I understand the search warrant, it would be like a house that was a crime scene. There's yellow tape, do not enter. But when you, when you deliberately take down security cameras, it's got nothing to do with a search warrant. That's got to do with being sneaky. Would you, as a police officer, stop the landowner from fixing those security cameras? What do you mean?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

To enter onto the property to. So this is all under this. The property is secured now it's under a search warrant.

[Ezra Levant]

So.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So they could go on without CFI approval. So, for example, the one of the owners was allowed on the other day to visit one of the ostriches. That's injured. Right, but that would be with CFIA approval. So not. Not something for us to really speak to.

[Ezra Levant]

Do you. Do you follow what the CFIA is doing to see if there's anything that might be, on its own, illegal or you just sort of, like, you say, it's a CFIA operation, you don't really get involved, like, because I. That. That seems to me that that is mischief that is beyond the scope of a search warrant. That's political, that's sneaky. And I don't know if the RCMP would abide that. Are you making sure that they don't take liberties or is that just not part of your mandate here?

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Well, I think you need to look at the contents of the search warrant, because that may very well be part of it. So that's something to look into. You know, as indicated, we're here to enforce the law. So certainly if we were to witness an offense and then we would need to take action.

[Ezra Levant]

Last question for you. How's the morale of the rcm? Because this, like you say, this is not, this is not your fight. This is a CFIA fight. This is Ottawa versus the locals. Like, it's a very strange battle. And in a way, I mean, look at you. You're very much identified. You have your hat, your says police. You're, you're the one butting up against these upset locals while the CFIA goes in incognito, hazmats covering license plate etc. That, that can't be fun.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Well, this is, this is our job. This is our duty.

[Ezra Levant]

We SW whether it's fun or not. Maybe it's not, it's not the crappiest job you've had, but it's not the best.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

So over the past couple weeks, as you mentioned, the crowd is ebbed and flow. There's been increases and decreases. There's been, you know, overall mostly peaceful crowd.

[Ezra Levant]

Has there been moments when it wasn't peaceful? You said mostly peaceful.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

And I wouldn't say that it's not peaceful, just more, more words have been exchanged.

[Ezra Levant]

Right.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

So.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

But we've built relationships over those two weeks. I think PLT was the police liaison team was down here earlier, has been engaging with the protesters for months. So from what I've seen, overall the.

[Ezra Levant]

Morale is quite good.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Certainly there's a lot of emotions here, as you said. And because I mean, animals are involved. So anytime animals are involved, there's always going to be.

[Ezra Levant]

It feels a little bit to me like the trucker convoy. I was in Ottawa briefly and there was a festival feeling. There was a grassroots feeling, a dissident feeling. And I remember there was a calm before the storm. The police were there and it was pretty chummy until things changed and then it got sort of brutal. I sure hope that doesn't happen here. I hope it's a happy ending.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Well, again, I, I can't really speak to what may or may not happen.

[Ezra Levant]

Right.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

We're here to ensure the. The public is safe, to keep the peace and enforce the law if necessary. So CFI can continue to conduct our business. Once that's concluded, we will no longer be required. We're here to do that job.

[Ezra Levant]

Until. Until then. All right, well, that's your motto. Maintain the law, maintain the rights. Staff Sergeant Clark, thanks for taking some time with me today. No problem. Nice to meet you.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Take care.

[Ezra Levant]

It.

[Brenda Belanger]

You'Ve arrived at your destination.

[Ezra Levant]

It well, we're going up on the scissor lift, which is like a movable elevator, and it's to get a better view of the ostriches. Scissor lift.

[Katie]

What did you call it?

[Ezra Levant]

I called it a mobile elevator. I knew what you called a scissors left. I. You know, I may not be a country boy anymore, but I know a.

[Brenda Belanger]

Scissor lift, by the way.

[Drea Humphrey]

So when I used to come here, Ezra, you could see tons of ostriches that would come here. They would visit with the people, they'd play, they'd mate. And now it's just so scarce. So they're not even with each other. They're not with their farmers anymore. They're separated from each other. This is supposed to be a humane operation, and it just doesn't look like that at all.

[Ezra Levant]

And the thing is, we don't even know what's going on because the CFIA's main exercise has been deception to to hide their activities, either by cutting off surveillance cameras or by building giant barriers out of straw and hay. That's what makes this so weird. And I tell you, there's different theories about what's going on. Some of them, I think, might even be called conspiracy theories. And it doesn't help when the government refuses to be transparent and does super weird things like cutting off surveillance cameras. You know what looks like bad faith? When they came in with their hazmat suits from top to bottom, when nothing's sick and it was just for theater. That's you. You can't treat people like they're dumb. We've already lived through co. We've lived through the BS and the deception. It's like this government has learned nothing from the last five years.

[Drea Humphrey]

Well, not only that, when they actually first came on day one, they weren't even wearing the hazmat suits. And people saw that. People went online. Wait, I thought they were sick. And then they're all head from toe. But you're right. What is the average Canadian thinking when, number one, everybody knows if an animal had a flu 10 months ago, they're not sick with that flu anymore. But number two, like you mentioned, the state is blocking the FARMS cameras so that they can't see that doesn't sit right with anyone.

[Ezra Levant]

I asked the RCMP about that. I said that surely wasn't in the court order. That sounds like mischief. And they say, well, it's not our mission. Like, I, I, I think the police are in a pickle because the police are here to protect the bureaucrats and I can't imagine the police are happy about that. Well, Andrea, you've been covering this story really for months and it's growing. So I was in the States last week, people were saying what's up with those ostriches? It's not as big as the trucker story was in 2022, but it feels like it's getting out there. It's so unusual. Why do you think this story has the legs that it does?

[Drea Humphrey]

You're right. It's reached apparently Holland, China and of course the US has been big speakers to this issue. You know, they've been speaking out before many of the politicians who are in recent weeks. And I think what really at the core is everybody loves animals like most people actually just genuinely like animals. And you can't vilify these animals. You can't say they're far right, extreme right like they did with the trucker convoy or they're anti mass or whatever sort of rhetoric you want to use against them. And I think everybody has respect for farmers too, for the money.

[Ezra Levant]

Right.

[Drea Humphrey]

So you have that combination and then it's just fascinating what's been entangled in this story. And it keeps increasingly so. So you have the grassroots, a lot of them, the freedom sort of member, but then you have just regular people because of that issue. And then you have the trade issue coming in and the science.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah, it's all, there's so many things. And also where is this going? I never thought of it. If the they can kill a farmer's ostrich for no good reason, can they kill your pet? And there's all sorts of your pet is not good for climate change. Like there's all sorts of anti pet stuff out there and I just don't understand what's, what is it that's so burning in the heart of these bureaucrats if they won't retest these animals like it, why. And that's why what I think baffles a lot of people. Hey, tell me about Robert F. Kennedy Jr's role because I think that that surprised a lot of people what's going on there.

[Drea Humphrey]

Right. The Health Secretary of the United States, RFK Jr. As well as head of Medicare and the NIH, they've all come out and said that these birds are worth more alive than dead. Of course they're seeing the opportunity in the science. So after 2020 farm switched from selling them for food. And by the way, it's the Canadian Food Inspection Agency coming to kill them sort of Weird.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah. Cuz these aren't food animals.

[Drea Humphrey]

Exactly. And their eggs were being used for antibody viral therapeutic research. Which even before it was on RFK junior's radar, he had already said, we want to move away from the leaky vaccines was the wording he used for MRNA technology. Which is what? Moderna.

[Ezra Levant]

Right. So this is the. So these birds, they're not for leather, they're not for meat, they're not for eggs. They are for testing an alternative to.

[Drea Humphrey]

The MRNA vaccine therapeutics, which is exactly what RFK Jr said they want to shift into for looking at things for the avian flu.

[Ezra Levant]

It would not surprise me if that was the motivation here.

[Drea Humphrey]

Right, so that was the US's motivation for getting involved. And then, well, what is Canada's motivation for not saving this research? And that's why the overlap with the trucker coin boy is there too, because it's about this big pharma loyalty, it seems.

[Ezra Levant]

Now you've been here and I feel like walking around, you're. You're like the mayor of this place. I mean, everyone respects your journalism. You've spoken to almost everybody here. I think you've really helped me spread the word internationally. How many stories have you done? Probably 20.

[Drea Humphrey]

Oh my gosh. See?

[Ezra Levant]

Or maybe more.

[Drea Humphrey]

60 stories for nine months.

[Ezra Levant]

Whoa, six. Well, you know what? Just like Rebel News was the champion of the truckers and we helped tell the world the story. 60 stories. I'm sorry I undercounted so much.

[Drea Humphrey]

It was funny because at one point Ezra put this, the story in Slack and he was like, Dr. Andrea, have you seen this?

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah, I've been covering it for months. You know what? I try. And we've got so much journalism going on, but you were having such an impact and having some fun, I thought I gotta come and check it out with my own eyes. And Rebel News is beloved here because they're not getting a fair shake from the cdc, they're not getting a fair shake from a lot of institutions. And so it is Rebel News that is getting their side of the story. That's our motto. Telling the other side of the story.

[Drea Humphrey]

The other side of the story. And what I love is that there's so many just everyday people, which I feel like that's who I am. I feel like Rebel just gave me a mic and I'm seeing other people here too. And everybody's got their cameras out and, and what's happening with this almost non partisan issue we're seeing here is people are finding everybody, they're finding Rebel News. For the first time because they want to know the other side of the story to these ostriches. And I think it was CTE made the fatal error of saying that Katie was live streaming. They said, oh, and she keeps live streaming.

[Katie]

And then sure enough, her live stream went way up the next day.

[Drea Humphrey]

So I think that these birds have the power to break through the echo chambers, which is something we've been, you know, that has been the key to get other people to go, hey, you know, rebels. Rebels talking about things that make mainstream media is it. And mainstream media. Let me think. They found a sick bird here the.

[Brenda Belanger]

Other day, which is what was out.

[Ezra Levant]

Well, you know, because a bird was injured because the RCMP flew a drone, spooked the bird, it got in trouble. And the way I saw that headline, it was phrased as if the bird was sick. Yeah. Instead of injured by the cops, the.

[Drea Humphrey]

Cfia and intentionally, it seems, would just say it's injured. And the mainstream, mainstream media, which should know the background, should know that the farmers already said there was an injured bird. So, you know, the value of people finding everyday people talking about this, showing what's really happening. And rebel news, I think we don't even know how measurable that is.

[Ezra Levant]

I'm so glad you're here. Part of me wants to hope that it will have a happy ending, but I've lived through Covid 2019, and I know that some. So many attempts at compromise or reason have failed, so many lawsuits were thrown.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Out by the courts.

[Ezra Levant]

And I don't want to be pessimistic because where there's life, there's hope, but. And it's a miracle that these birds have survived so long because. And the cops have been here for weeks already. I mean, just millions of dollars. I don't know, are you optimistic? I mean, I just don't know why a judge doesn't say, just test them. Just test them and good, because they're all healthy. And if they're not, okay, now we have a new fact. But we believe, we understand all these birds are healthy. Have been for almost 10 months.

[Drea Humphrey]

These birds are over 260 days, healthy and asymptomatic. And you're right, it is a miracle. So the journalist in me is, yeah, it's pretty grim.

[Katie]

But I keep coming here, and every.

[Drea Humphrey]

Time I come here, it's because you think they're birds are going to die and they're alive. So I'm rooting for the miracle. But you're right. I think the biggest red flag is the fact that The CFIA hasn't came in yet. The fact that they've had, you know, even David Evie at one point saying something we had the Green Party saying, you know, why aren't you testing. The fact that they know everybody is looking at this agency and say, why won't you test them? And they still have. It is very concerning.

[Ezra Levant]

You're right. You got Pier Poy from the Conservative. They did Elizabeth May for the Greens. They've all. Here's a quick clip of those different commentators from across the political spectrum. That's from the hard left to the center right. They're all on the same page. Take a look at this. What is your official stance on the.

[Drea Humphrey]

Ostriches in British Columbia and the culling.

[Katie]

Order that they are facing?

[Conservative Politician]

Really incredible that the Liberals have caused so much because of Liberal incompetence. We're in this mess. And when you have an incompetent government, you have messes like the inflation crisis, like the crime crisis, like the border crisis, like the investment crisis, like the fastest shrinking economy in the entire G7. When you have an incompetent government, you get lots of these messes.

[Katie]

Wait on the ostriches. Sir.

[Drea Humphrey]

Sir, you didn't say what your stance.

[Katie]

Is on the ostriches.

[Drea Humphrey]

Why won't you answer your stance on the ostriches?

[Conservative Politician]

I just did. I said the Liberals are incompetent.

[Drea Humphrey]

That's my stance as an ecmp. I'm just curious what your take is.

[Katie]

On the ostrich situation at universal ostrich farms.

[Drea Humphrey]

What's your.

[Katie]

What's your party's position on that?

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

Well, I wrote the Minister of Health in the. Well so long ago, now a very different Minister of health. It was January 2025 that I wrote to say, look, can't we get the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to redo the tests? That will remove a lot of the. The either anxiety divisions. One wants to know why not redo the tests? It's not that difficult to redo the tests, but CFIA is refusing. So I think CFIA could help themselves potentially by doing independent testing. Do these birds have traces of avian flu? And it's become such a divisive issue. I must say most of my constituents who write me want that ostrich cull not to happen. And they want to. And I want to know. I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't happen. But why not get the evidence? Why not? And this is our position as a party, why not redo the testing and verify the health of that flock of ostriches before engaging in what many see as an animal cruelty. And I can't imagine. This is absolutely astonishing to me that an animal welfare issue in Canada has garnered the attention of MAGA type billionaires in the United States, which makes me sympathize with the ostriches less. But that doesn't matter. What matters is we get our facts first and we don't have all the facts because CFIA has refused to do the testing.

[Ezra Levant]

Isn't that interesting? I, that's why I think there's some shenanigans afoot. And I'm not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but the, the explanations we have just do not add up. You know, I, I'm just here to visit. I actually have to go back to Toronto very shortly, but I wanted to see with my own eyes what's going on. I'm so glad I'm here now. You have spent a lot of time here and through the grace of our viewers we have been able to crowdfund a little camp server and a Starlink Internet connection. How long are you like you've got obligations back at home, but you've, you've been here cumulatively for quite a long time.

[Drea Humphrey]

Yes, a long time. Sometimes a week at a time. The bottom line is we're invested in this story. We see the threat to Canadians. When you have, I said, like I said, the state covering up Canadians, cameras arresting farmers for wanting to feed their animals and just not bending to the public to international trade offers to anything. Rebel has to be here and we have to tell the story right. So yes, it's been a sacrifice on my part and I'm happy that you know, now I'm going to have help from my colleagues. It's been a massive operation, just like the massive operation with the police, the CFI and who else knows? Except it's not on the tax dollars. Instead it's from people like you, great people like who are here like this, who want us to be able to broadcast what's really going on. And so people have been helping and there are more there, a lot more costs as my colleagues come. So if you want to be a part of helping us do those stories, please go to save the ostriches.com that's where you can chip in and that's where you can find the 60 reports. And I should point out, of course we always threw to the GoFundMe they have for their legal fees, which are a lot. It wasn't until I physically started traveling here that we did ask for help. With our journalism because this is the only way we survived.

[Ezra Levant]

We needed. Now we've been facing the birds while we're talking, but the camera's been facing away. I'm just going to rotate here just so people can see the incredible view that we've had. We probably, I should have probably done the interview like this. So you can see we're up high, high in the scissor lift and looking down at the birds. They have obscured. They have built 10 foot high haystacks to block the view. Drea, thank you for coming here. Thank you for. I mean it's a bit of a stress on anyone's family to be away from home and I know that too because I travel a fair bit. So thank you. And I see how beloved you are here and it really is fun to be a, a rebel. Wear this rebel shirt here because everyone loves rebel news because of your 60 outstanding journalistic exposes. And I mentioned I was in Texas and people were asking me about it. You've done more journalism on this than anyone else and it's that repetition and following the ins and outs of the story that has made this bloom. And so if there is a public pushback that saves the ostriches in the end, I think the. Some of the credit goes to you. Now obviously the farm itself, very courageous. I really enjoyed meeting some of the folks here.

[Drea Humphrey]

There's a certain charisma, whistleblowers that have been helping me inform the farmers and the public of what's going on. I mean that's how a lot of people got here this time around is because I was able to say this is when it's going down. And this is not a drill, this is the real thing.

[Ezra Levant]

Right. Well, let me just turn the camera one more time to look at the parking lot. It really is like a festival. And you know what was so interesting? I was, I was shown what's a gift. The porta potties are a gift. The cleaning of the porta potties is a gift. Those solar powered or diesel powered surveillance towers to counteract the fact that the CFIA tried to destroy the surveillance. It really is a fascinating cultural moment, political moment. I use the word festival feeling because it really is like the Woodstock for freedom I, I mentioned. It feels a little bit like the trucker convoy and that's true. Anyways, I'm up here on the scissor lift and I think I should probably go back down.

[Katie]

We look like we're holding it.

[Ezra Levant]

That's right. No, but thank you very much for operating the scissor lift for us. And we probably should have been wearing the harness, but we were just having fun. Yeah, we're rebels. We weren't working too hard. So let's, let's bring her on down to sea level. And thank you, boss, for helping us. Here we go. Down. Yeah, there it is. We're going down slowly but surely. I'm getting. It's a little bit jiggly. Here we go. Thank you very much. Well, there you have it, folks. And if you want to support Dre's journalism and the fact that she's out here in an RV with a Starlink, so because there's no hotels close by, I should tell you that there's one.

[Drea Humphrey]

It gets booked pretty fast when you have the support that they're getting. And I have to be here.

[Ezra Levant]

Right.

[Drea Humphrey]

See from our coverage, and it can.

[Ezra Levant]

Happen at night, including at 4:30 in the morning.

[Brenda Belanger]

Yes.

[Ezra Levant]

There you have it, folks. A good catch up with our friend Dre Humphrey, who has carried this story for the whole world. All right, we're back down. Check us out at save the ostriches.com Ezra Levant, here for Rebel News. I'm in Edgewood, BC, at an ostrich farm, the one that's been in the news of late. You can see all the police vehicles here, and I don't know if you can quite catch a glimpse of ostriches in the far background. Of course, between me and the ostriches is this yellow police tape is not a crime scene. It is not a health zone. The birds are healthy. Almost a year ago, about 10 months ago, several birds got the flu, the sniffles, as I call it. But they got better, and the entire herd got herd immunity. There's nothing wrong with the birds. And yet the government, in the form of the cfia, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, has ordered that every single one of the hundreds of birds here be killed. Now, the farm has said no, wait a minute. These birds are fine. We'll even pay for the testing to show you that the government has said no. In fact, bizarrely, the farm is not allowed to test their birds. To do so could yield a jail sentence, if you can believe it, and certainly a fine. There's been a standoff here because those Ottawa bureaucrats aren't to able know why the Food Inspection Agency is involved. These ostriches are not being raised for meat or for leather or for some of the uses of ostrich. They're actually used to test therapies. Not MRNA vaccines, but alternatives to that. These birds may contain a therapy for different diseases. And so some people think, well, maybe that's the reason that the government wants to wipe them out. And maybe that's the, the reason why RFK junior the cabinet minister in Trump's administration responsible for health, has actually said he is uncomfortable with the proposed mass killing of the birds. Anyways, that's my attempt at summarizing what's going on here. Our reporter Drea Humphrey has been out here. She's actually done 60 news stories about this. And I believe that she is one of the reasons why this story has such international prominence. Now, I've been standing with my back towards various police cars. One officer told me that there's at least 30 cops on site. I think it's much more than that. There's a staging area where other more heavily armed police are based. I, I talked to one cop for about a 10 minute conversation today. And the thing is, the RCMP themselves are not the ones going in for the kill. They're the ones being brought in to cause all these people who have camped out here at the farm to keep them away from the health bureaucrats, the food bureaucrats. In other words, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is here to do the dirty work and the cops are here to protect them. Here's my conversation with a spokesman for the rcmp. Well, I don't know if those answers were sufficient. What's so crazy is the optics of all this. Like I say, you can't really see the ostriches from here. They have been moved and the CFIA has created artificial barriers. Just move out of the way so I don't get driven over. There's a lot going on on the ostrich farm here, let me tell you that much. The CFIA has created barriers with giant haystacks and they built four fences with black plastic barriers. Not for any health reasons. There's no health reason to build a 10 foot hay bale fence. It's for one reason only. So the people who are here, and other journalists, and they're mainly citizen journalists here, cannot observe the massacre when it comes. Now, I was invited to go up a hill overlooking and we tried to use a technical telescope, but I couldn't get my cell phone to work with the telescope. Here's some footage of what we could see from across the road on higher ground. You can sort of see what they're building. It's not for health, it's not for medical, it's not for a public policy reason. It is to hide what they're doing. Take a look. That's not it. There's so much theater involved with the cfia. They're wearing head to toe hazmat suit while everyone else here, including the rcmp, are dressed normally. No one believes that these birds are ill. I think the hazmat suit was for shock and awe, so that the regime media could say, oh my God, the birds are sick. But it's also to hide the identity of these disgraced bureaucrats who have come in from Ottawa to do something deeply unpopular. I mean, imagine that it's so unpopular that the RCMP have had to bring in 50 cops. That's my estimate. From very far away. There's not 50 cops in this part of British Columbia. And what's so crazy is, as you know, Canada is in the middle of a crime wave right now. And imagine taking 50 RCMP officers off more important work to come and be the personal escort for the cfia. That's super gross. Yeah. So if it's, if they're not building hay bale barricades, if they're not doing hazmat suit public health theater, they're actually disabling the surveillance that the farm had up. There's, there's nothing in the, in the, in the law that gives them that power. It's got nothing to do with public health. They did that because they don't want their dirty deeds to be observed. They've also brought in a flight ban so no drones can come in overhead. And there were images of sensors and anti drone technology. I have no idea where they're even getting these. I mean, does the CFIA have tens of thousands of dollars worth of anti drone guns just laying around? Or is this borrowed from the Canadian military? What the heck is going on that there's this massive paramilitary operation. Oh, you can see some of the birds behind me now involved in, in the main to cover up journalism. Like everything I've just described to you is about optics and pr. Nothing to do with public health. It's very weird. Very weird. I wanted to come here because my friend Dre Humphrey has been covering it and I wanted to show her support and see with my own eyes what I see. And it was really fun. She really is a little bit like the mayor of this place here. Here's my conversation with Drea.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

We.

[Ezra Levant]

We actually got up on this scissor lift, which is like a mobile elevator. Here's my conversation with Drea. I tell you, she's doing a great job. And she's.

[Conservative Politician]

We.

[Ezra Levant]

We actually got a camper for her to stay in, like An RV and a Starlink. Now you see these, There's a lot of signs around and I took a little stroll down the alley because there's some wonderful signs. They're all homemade. This really is a grassroots moment, I have to say. It reminds me a little bit of the truckers in 2022. Here's my little walk down the alley of signs earlier today. Very, very interesting. I had a lot of chats with a lot of great people and they love rebellion news and they love Drea simply because we're telling the other side of the story and that is our motto. And the CBC is outrageous in their propaganda. They're liars and it's interesting to hear the Farm say so. Here's my conversation with the boss of the Farm earlier today. By the way, that's a reference to a conversation I had with her. I think Drea has the footage for that. I sure hope so. Well, that's my report from the ground here in Edgewood, British Columbia. I really enjoyed the trip. I flew from Toronto to Kelowna, rented a car, drove. And I have to do the whole thing in reverse because I've got to get back to our world headquarters. But our friend Drea will continue and in the days ahead, Sidney Fizard will be joining from Calgary and then Sheila Gun Reed will be coming down early next week. So we intend to follow this story to, to its conclusion. We have a few tricks up our sleeve too, that I'm not going to divulge now. But you'll see them, I hope, journalistically, in the days and weeks ahead. There's something very wrong in Canada when you have 30, 40, 50 police taken off of fighting crime and put onto fighting ostriches who are completely healthy. There's something super wrong when the government says you may not even test in your own birds with your own money. There's something super wrong about that. There's something super weird about this whole thing and people here know it and it makes them uncomfortable. What is this a test run for? I've seen different theories and that's the thing. Speculation abounds because the government is so non transparent, they're so opaque. Translation, they're lying to you. We're going to keep on the story. My friend Dre Humphrey will lead our coverage. Others in the rebel team will circulate through. If you want to help cover Drea's camper van, he's got an RV with a starlink and other expenses of just being here. Food, water, whatever, go to savetheostriches. Dot Com. All right, I'm gonna go back to Toronto now, but I will not put my head in the sand. Goodbye, everybody.

[Katie]

Hi.

[Ezra Levant]

Hey, Katie.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

What's up?

[Katie]

So, you know we put the signs up today to show us a picture of our hen.

[Drea Humphrey]

Yeah, right.

[Katie]

They're not too bigger. She's just doing the kick of death. They're not too big there. They have it. Taken care of her if.

[Unnamed Supporter/Activist]

I know.

[Katie]

Just let me speak.

[Ezra Levant]

Let's go.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

Get plt down for you.

[Ezra Levant]

That's fine.

[Katie]

If we. If we would have just been allowed to care for her, she'd be okay. She's dying alone. She's dying alone.

[Ezra Levant]

Right there.

[Katie]

We have the footage. She's dying alone. We would have never done that. Our birds don't die alone. They're loved by us. They're Karen. She's alone, laying there, dying right there. We can't touch her. We can't be with her. They're not with her. They know she's dying because. Because we did those finish. She's dying alone. This is the most painful thing. They're right there. They're right there. We're not aggressive. We're not hurting anybody. We just want to give her love. They've been love for 35 years. We would have never let them die alone. She's dying by herself because we are being punished by line by this tape. We're being punished. We just. It's not fair. She's dying for being healthy. She's dying because we spoke up. She's dying because of trade politics. She's dying alone. Than we would have ever known if we didn't just get a visual. Because they're lying and they're hiding. They're hiding behind this. They're hiding behind this. Force them to be honest and that's not right. This organization's hiding behind. Behind your power. This organization is hiding behind your power. You got to stop it. This is cruelty. This is animal cruelty. Please. Please stop them. Please stop them.

[Ezra Levant]

Hold the bend for you.

[Katie]

Please stop them. Please. Let us just be with her. Let us just feel.

[Ezra Levant]

I think it's beyond treatment now.

[Katie]

These are our family.

[Ezra Levant]

Yesterday she was moving around and she was backing and getting up and like.

[Katie]

Family doesn't just look.

[Ezra Levant]

And it took us going public and saying that, calling them out today for.

[Katie]

These are everything we've ever loved. She's dying alone, kicking her head back. She's. God, please take her. Please, God, please take her in peace. This is so unfair. This is animal cruelty. They're hiding. Canadian food inspection agencies hide behind your yellow tape. They're hiding behind really important power. They're hiding. They're cowards.

[Ezra Levant]

The bird.

[Katie]

They're cowards in suits that don't even follow their own policies. You know exactly what's going on behind us. They're lying. They're lying to you.

[Ezra Levant]

They're lying to me.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

I will get the message all I can.

[Ezra Levant]

Do you know that.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

I'll get the message.

[Ezra Levant]

Organization is lying to you guys.

[Staff Sergeant Chris Clark]

To this country.

[Katie]

Please just tell them. Please just tell them. We just want to be with her, Dave. Does someone to go be with her at the last moments if she's not gone already. Just to put her to rest so we can.

[Ezra Levant]

Why should she lie there like. That's not how we treat animals when they're done. Guys, we're on it. They know it.

[Katie]

They know it, but they're hiding. They're hiding behind us.

[Ezra Levant]

No, they're. They're not hiding.

[Katie]

Food inspection. Hiding behind these two. I.

[Ezra Levant]

And it would.

[Drea Humphrey]

Wouldn't hurt her to be there.

[Ezra Levant]

Anyway, thanks for your help. Do what we can do.

[Brenda Belanger]

Please help. Please help.

[Ezra Levant]

Are you live streaming officer? Are you live streaming or you just filming our faces? Yeah. What. What are you filming for? Why are you hiding your own face?

[Drea Humphrey]

Let's leave this, okay?

[Ezra Levant]

Katie doesn't want that, all right? Katie does not want that. Yeah, but not right.

[Brenda Belanger]

He can't even answer us. No, it doesn't matter. You should ask her. No, it doesn't matter. I'm not taking pictures of them. I'm not talking.

[Ezra Levant]

He has. No.

[Brenda Belanger]

Katie doesn't want this.

[Ezra Levant]

Think about what she wants.

[Brenda Belanger]

This isn't going to help the farm. It's not your fault.

[Katie]

Hold on.

[Brenda Belanger]

Don't blame them.

[Ezra Levant]

These guys made up sa.