OTTAWA SENATOR SPEAKS OUT 📢
What Senator Michael L MacDonald REALLY THOUGHT about the Freedom Convoy Protest in Ottawa - 7 Minute Conversation Recorded LIVE February 16th, 2022
Recently, I’ve been reminded of an encounter I had during the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa last winter. It was the night of February 16th, 2022 at the corner of Wellington and Elgin, just in front of the East Block - Canada's Parliamentary Precinct.
I crossed paths with a very interesting man. He was walking past me in a hurry. Something made him look towards me. When we made eye contact, he began a conversation.
This memory was almost lost to me. I had been staying up, late into the night and sleeping in my truck in negative degree temperatures. Admittedly, I am a bit ignorant to Parliamentary hierarchy and the who’s who in government.
I knew I was speaking to somebody important, but I never knew how important.
The man I crossed paths with was Michael L. MacDonald, a sitting Senator with the Federal Government. He released a statement days afterwards, apologizing for his remarks. He said he had too much to drink at dinner that night. You know how the old adage goes,
“a drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts”.
This admission by Senator MacDonald should be submitted into evidence in the Public Order Emergency Commission.
Here is the transcript of the conversation between us:
“How ya doin’?”
Good, Yourself?
“Not bad.”
Right on.
“Where you in from?”
Pardon?
“Where are you in from?”
Toronto.
“Are you?”
Yeah.
“Good man yourself.”
Right on. Where are you from? Local?
“Nova Scotia.”
Nova Scotia?
“Yeah.”
Right on.
“Yeah.”
Thanks for coming down brother, right on.
“I’m not coming here, I work here.”
Oh, you work here?
“I do.”
Oh, right on.
“I do. I’m a… don’t turn me... don’t put that on. I don’t want to be recorded, alright?”
Okay.
“I just want to talk to you as a friend.”
Sure, talk to me brother.
“Alright, okay then. This is so important, for the country. This is so important.”
Oh yeah, 100%.
“Now, if people would realize - fuckin’ that you need freedom in this country anymore? Are we a country anymore? Or are we gonna sit around like a bunch of fuckin’ androids being told what to do?”
I agree. I agree brother.
“No, no, It’s fuckin’ not like this. Right? How old are you?”
37
“I’m 67. Right?”
67? Yeah..
“I’m just a… I’m so... happy with the people in the city don’t break the law or nothing.”
Beautiful.
“Right? They have courage and integrity and determination… to come out and hold the fort, hold their ground. And uh… This country is full of people with no courage. And it’s full of Karens and silly people and people with manginas…. and… We’ve criticized them and often people do, but… People with better judgment have to prevail here.”
Yeah, absolutely.
‘People with better judgement have to step forward and say, “Enough!” Right?’
Mmhmm, mmhmm. 100%
“Right? What do you do?”
Uh, I’m a streamer. Well, my day-to-day is uh, I’m a plumber.
“Are you?”
Yes sir. There we go guys.
“The world needs plumbers brother.”
Yes sir, yeah.
“There’s too many people going to university and taking useless degrees.”
Mmmhmm.
‘And I always say, “We should be… instead of subsidizing people’s university degrees… let’s produce more pipefitters and plumbers and electricians and and journeymen and, and carpenters and stationary engineers. And people that could do things that are useful.”’
Yeah… yeah, 100%
‘“Instead of virtue signaling and…” and uh. You won’t know who I am. You’d never guess who I am.’
I, I do not know.
“I’m a senator. I’m a senator in parliament…”
Oh yeah? Okay.
“I’m a conservative, so I’m the only conservative senator running from Nova Scotia. I’m a baby of Canada. My father went to Seaway, he was 12 to raise his family. He worked hard his whole life for everything.”
“The shit I see in this place…”
MmmHmm.
‘People with six figure salaries telling the news to people. Talking to worthless business people about the course of this country. Trying to do the job. Saying, “We’re your, we’re your, we’re your friends.”’
“Out here, they’re fuckin’ enemies. They’re a bunch of sell outs…”
“The people here who… I made a lot of different political persuasion with them. But we have the right to be free in our own country.”
Yeah, I hope so, yeah.
“And… When I see the government put a fuckin’ fence around the war memorial, as if to, as if to imply that it’s in danger. I’ve been here for three weeks. I walk from my office in the East Block to my hotel room in the Westin. I never felt so safe than I have for the past few weeks.”
Yeah…
“I don’t feel, I don’t feel battled or threatened. I feel safe.”
100%
“Threatened by people who are my friends??”
Yeah…
“And aren’t bullying me.”
The only thing you got to be worried about here is getting a, a hug from a stranger.
“That’s right! That’s right! That’s right…”
It’s just… it’s… it’s beautiful.
‘Right? But I’m just... I just can’t get over how, ah, the way people here are being lied about and misrepresented. I’m sittin’ home. I said, “Look, I’m, I’m there!” I’m like… I bring all newspapers home that came from Nova Scotia, all these local journalists, same old “blah blah blah blah”. Regurgitating what they’re told out of CTV or CBC or Global.’
Yeah…
‘I said, “Well… I’m there everyday! I’ve been here every day for the last three weeks. Walking through everybody…”’
Nothing but peace.
“Don’t go tellin’ me there’s a problem…”
Yeah, yeah.
“I know the difference. I know it cause I’m living it.”
Yeah…
‘And you’re representing these people this way?! If you think this is only truckers… This is a hell of a lot more than truckers. There’s a cross section of Canadians that said, “We have had enough of the bullshit and duplicity and the lies and the, and the social management and the bullying and the control freaks and everything else…” alright?’
*Inaudible*
‘The country’s full of Karens. My wife’s a Karen. Scared to death. “Oh, I just wish they’d leave.”’
‘I said, “I don’t want them to leave.” I said, “I don’t care if they leave Windsor or in the other places, where they’re shutting down transportation. But in Ottawa… I don’t want them to leave.”’
Yeah, well everybody’s watching, this is worldwide. Everybody’s watching here.
‘And people, and people say, “Oh, uh” I hear this all the time, “They’re in OUR city!”’
“It’s everybody’s fuckin’ city! This is the capital of the country! It’s not your God damned city!”
Yeah…
“Just because you have a six figure salary and you work 20 hours a week… we haven’t worked a full week in two years!”
Yeah, yeah.
“Now that’s sickening!”
Yeah.
“It’s sickening!!”
I hear you brother.
“Alright? It’s sickening!!”
Thanks my man, I really appreciate talking to ya.
“Look, look, look. Look - I grew up with nothing. I’m not a better person than anybody else. I’m not a special person. I grew up. I’m a baby of Canada. You know how I paid my way through university? I peeled pulp. And I went to the Grand Banks. Cause my parents had no money. You know what? You know what I’m owed? Nothing. I’m owed nothing. This country gave me more than my father had and my grandfathers, right?”
“And I’m so sick of the entitlement in this country and this fuckin’ city. Everybody around this city with their 6 figure salaries and their 20 hour weeks. And their bullshit nonsense, calling people bigots and racists and everything else. This is so unfair to the country and so unfair to people. And I know it’s unfair cause I’m here.”
Yeah.
“I know it’s not true. Right?”
Absolutely.
“Thanks for having the courage and the decency to come here.”
Thanks brother.
“Alright? You are not alone.”
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
“Alright. God bless you.”
God bless you too man.
And I mean that, Mike. God bless you for speaking from the heart in that moment in time. This conversation should be heard in it’s entirely by more than just the two of us and a handful of viewers watching live, unable to hear well over the wind noise. God knows you meant every word you said to me that night, even though not so eloquently delivered at times. The sentiments you expressed that night reflect the opinions of millions of Canadians across the country.
So Mike, my friend; I am sorry. I know the vultures may continue to drag you for some of the comments you made. However, a lot can be extrapolated from this video regarding the safety of the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa and regarding the other opinions shared, which normally go unspoken. I extend my hand to you brother, if you ever wish to speak to me, officially on the record this time.
Let it be known that a Convoy streamer DID gain audience with a sitting senator in Ottawa that night on February 16th, 2022.
It is my hope that this submission be entered into evidence in the Public Order Emergency Commission.
I ask those reading this; please consider sending an email to the Public Order Emergency Commission below.
https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/share-your-views/
Feel free to download the original livestream here.
Canadians deserve to see and hear what this senator REALLY thought about the Freedom Convoy and the current state of our country.
Sincerely,
Eric
VIDSTORM
November 16th, 2022
