699 Peter MacIsaac excerpt (0:00 - 0:26) Nova Scotia is the first jurisdiction in North America to institute climate lockdowns. Since early August, the government of Nova Scotia, under Premier Tim Houston, has forbidden people to enter the forests, claiming that the move is to prevent forest fires. You may be familiar with the case of Jeff Evely, who received a $28,000 fine for walking 13 steps into the woods.   (0:26 - 1:00) But as with the COVID lockdowns, the data does not in any way support these restrictions. Peter MacIsaac, the author of The Redneck Conservative and a Nova Scotian himself, has almost 30 years of experience in forest fire management and investigation. In this interview, Peter will reveal the many holes in the provincial government's narrative, as well as show evidence for the Nova Scotia government itself, which gives the lie to what they are telling the public.   (1:01 - 1:30) In addition, Peter and I will draw many parallels to the COVID lockdowns and show how the globalist agenda will attempt to expand climate lockdowns across Canada as yet another tool of totalitarian control. Peter, welcome back to the show. Well, thanks for the invite, Will.   (1:30 - 1:44) There's a lot been happening here on Canada's east coast that affects the rest of Canada. So where do you want to start? Well, you're right there in Nova Scotia, which is ground zero for climate lockdowns, the first ones in the world. Tell us exactly what's going on there.   (1:45 - 1:55) I know people are probably familiar, maybe, with the story of Jeff Evely and how he got that ticket, absurd, for going into the woods. But there's more than that going on. Yeah.   (1:55 - 2:14) So what happened down here, a little background, is I fought forest fires in Nova Scotia professionally at the Department of Natural Resources for 29 years. So I was a combination game warden and professional forest firefighter. So everything that I'm going to tell you tonight in regards to what's happening in this situation in Nova Scotia, I'm going to be speaking from a very professional standpoint.   (2:15 - 2:34) And I've been incident commander on over 100 fires here in Nova Scotia, right? So I've got a lot of experience as to what I'm talking about. So what happened down here, Will, is in direct correlation with what Mark Carney is trying to push all across the country. And that's that we're in the middle of some kind of a climate crisis.   (2:35 - 2:58) And because of that, and the constant fear mongering that goes on down here in Nova Scotia on mainstream media, people are afraid that the province is going to burn. And the premier, Tim Houston, who, by the way, is a progressive conservative in name only, him and Doug Ford are hardcore liberals, the pair of them, basically. That's my interpretation of it.   (2:59 - 3:27) But Tim Houston, I believe, may have cut some kind of a side deal with Mark Carney to help push the initiative. So for the first time in North American history, a premier or a governor, someone here in North actually has instituted a 10-week travel ban province-wide from the southern tip of Nova Scotia to the northern tip of Cape Breton Island. You're not allowed to walk in the woods or you weren't allowed to not walk in the woods under that proclamation, even during the rain.   (3:28 - 3:43) So, for example, Jeff Evely had given me a call. I know Jeff and he stayed at my place in the past, actually. And back in 2023, the premier brought in another travel ban after we had record-breaking forest fires here in the province.   (3:43 - 3:54) One was caused by arson and one was caused by somebody burning when they weren't supposed to be burning. And so the premier said that we can't have a repeat of 2023. And back in 2023, he put in a travel ban.   (3:54 - 4:21) Well, Jeff Evely at the time, he tried to launch a charter challenge against the premier for what he viewed, rightly so, as a Section 1 charter violation. And a Section 1 charter violation allows people in Canada or the government, they can put restraints on you, but they have to be proportional. And back in 2023, when the premier did this for the first time, Will, we got record-breaking rainfall.   (4:22 - 4:41) And in my area of Bedford, Nova Scotia, our main street was under 10 feet of water. It was the largest flood we've had here probably in 150 years. And the premier left the travel ban for forest fire reasons in place for four more days in my area, and then left it on for several more weeks in other areas around the province.   (4:41 - 4:54) And it was completely and totally unjustified. And Jeff Eveley at the time, when it got to court, the judge said, Jeff, you don't have standing because you didn't get a ticket. Well, this time around, he wasn't going to let it happen.   (4:54 - 5:07) He took some of his military background, and he's a pretty tough dude. And he said, enough's enough. You know, he was one of the guys up in Ottawa at the Truckers' Convention guarding some of those military things up there.   (5:08 - 5:24) And he's not afraid to call out a wrong when he sees wrong. And what the premier did in Nova Scotia was 100% wrong. On the second last day, I believe of July, I think it was July 30th, he put in, he started off with a fire ban, Will.   (5:25 - 5:43) And because I've worked on forest fires over my career, most people aren't aware of there's scientific data that has to be consulted on a daily basis as to what you can do in regards to forest fires. It's called the Fire Weather Index. And the Fire Weather Index in Nova Scotia, we take weather readings at 31 stations around the province.   (5:43 - 5:55) And they take it in the morning and then again at noon. And then that data is posted publicly for everyone to see at 2 p.m. in the afternoon. And Nova Scotia has a series of microclimates.   (5:55 - 6:06) It's kind of like in B.C. We've got mountains, the mountainous area in the north and Cape Breton Highlands. And then we've got areas with heavy fog banks. And we've got dozens and dozens of microclimates.   (6:06 - 6:25) So it's impossible to put any kind of an application on the province of Nova Scotia with anything to do with fires. And the premier was worried that the province screwed up so badly in 2023. And we had over $189 million in damage in our biggest forest fire in our history.   (6:25 - 6:35) He didn't want the same thing happening again. So on July 30th, he declared a fire ban. And so immediately, with my background, I just pulled up the data.   (6:35 - 6:47) And the data said 40% of the province was in low to intermediate. And I went, how could you possibly legally do that? And I started doing research. So this is a charter ban.   (6:48 - 7:03) Or this is a charter breach. So when I looked at the data, I said, what would the possible justification be for what just happened here? Because 40% of the province, they should have been able to burn. They should have been able to do anything they wanted to do.   (7:05 - 7:21) And at that point, I said, OK, there has to be more than what we're seeing here. There has to be something taking place at different levels. Why would Tim Houston do that? And what he said was, he said, I'm losing sleep at night.   (7:21 - 7:29) I'm worried 2023 is going to happen again. And he said, I'm just not going to allow it. Well, putting in a fire ban doesn't stop arsonists.   (7:29 - 7:35) Our largest fire was arson, like I said. And the second biggest fire was someone burning when they weren't supposed to burn. Both of them were breaking the law.   (7:36 - 7:50) And so a couple of days later, I had already started doing research for a charter challenge of our own. And then Jeff Evely said, well, I'm going to go get a ticket and do this the proper way so I have standing. And he asked me how to set things up.   (7:50 - 7:56) So I said, go talk to a game warden. I used to be one. Walk into the woods in front of them, force the issue, get a ticket.   (7:56 - 8:14) The ticket was supposed to be $25,000, Will. But when all was said and done, it was $28,872.50 for walking 13 steps into the woods and 13 steps out. And so what it was, was complete disproportionality and massive government overreach.   (8:14 - 8:34) And when the travel ban got put in place a couple of days after the fire ban, it was unprecedented for the premier to say this is going to stay in effect till October the 15th. And so this morning was the opening day of bow season for deer hunting. I was hunting deer earlier this morning.   (8:35 - 8:51) Like I started pretty early around four o'clock. And, you know, up and around and getting ready to go hunting. Now, on August 29th, the premier list lifted seven of the 18 zones in the province and allowed people to go back in the woods and start walking.   (8:52 - 9:13) The pressure cooker was so bad and he was getting so much public pressure to do something about it. He said, well, we'll open some areas, but we're not going to open others. And I sent you some data there earlier that, you know, even today here in Nova Scotia, uh, you're looking at, well, we had decent rain here yesterday and we had the same amount of rain in August in Nova Scotia that we normally have.   (9:14 - 9:44) Normally in Nova Scotia, we get 87 to 93 millimeters rain in a month. And in the month of August in outside of the Halifax area that I'm in, we got over, over 95 mils of rain. So what happens is all across the province, everybody is being penalized by the premier who's decided to completely ignore the scientific data and bring in, like I said, the first time ever in North American history, a climate lockdown of this length of time.   (9:45 - 9:57) Yes. And that's a very important point to dwell on is that what they're doing here is they're setting this up to be much, much bigger. They tried global lockdowns with COVID.   (9:57 - 10:04) It didn't last. They couldn't keep that going. So now they're going to try climate lockdowns and they're starting these fires intentionally.   (10:04 - 10:27) We won't get into that, but either way they win. If they keep people in the woods and the fires stop, then they can say, Oh, well, see it's, you know, people and global warming and fires and all that, or the fires don't stop. And they say, well, the global warming is so bad that we have to extend these lockdowns to other areas like cities.   (10:27 - 10:33) You know, you can't have a backyard fire. You can't drive your car too far because that'll create heat. Right.   (10:33 - 10:49) So either way they win the narrative and they just keep going with it. So here in Nova Scotia, our number one cause of forest fire is arson. As a matter of fact, from 2007 to 2023, we had 1144, I believe, arson fires.   (10:50 - 11:02) Second largest cause of fires is debris fires where people burn stuff in their backyard and it gets away on them. And so what ended up happening here? And, you know, I want people to try to get a handle on what actually happened.