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Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

Folks, welcome to the program. We've got a lot of interesting guests today. But right now,

we're talking to a journalist from Rebel News to talk about what's been going on with this pastor in Canada,

Pastor Tim Stevens. Adam Seuss, am I pronouncing that right?

That's right, that works. Adam, what part of Canada are you in? And how do you know?

Have you been covering this situation with these Canadian pastors being oppressed, suppressed, persecuted by the Canadian government?

Yeah, so I'm in Western Canada, not quite on the coast though Alberta, so we're kind of the Texas of Canada.

And I'm in Calgary, so it's kind of the oil country of Canada. So very, very generally conservative kind of territory.

So I've been covering the story pretty closely. My colleague, Sheila Gunn, read dealt with James Cotes up at Grace Life Church.

That's the church as you likely saw, which was fully fenced off and completely shut down in the pastor spent 35 days in jail.

Since that time, I've spent quite a bit of time with Pastor Arthur Povlowski. Of course, you've likely seen the viral video of him shouting, get out, get out.

And the authorities fleeing rapidly, so I was intimately connected with that story. And now most recently, I've been on the story of Pastor Tim Stevens.

So in our province alone, we have had three pastors arrested simply for gathering for worship.

Well, we've had this kind of thing going on in the United States, but we haven't had arrests. We've had persecution, fines, a lot of trouble.

The idea of arresting a pastor is seems to be to us in the United States to be extraordinary, bad optics.

Why is the Canadian government, do you think, taking these kinds of horrific actions?

Well, one of the great ironies is that our premier, who's effectively like the governor of a state, the premier of our province, used to work in federal politics.

And he was one of the great international sort of advocates for religious freedom. Now no one will remember that. Everyone will only remember him as the premier who locked up pastors.

What is his name?

Jason Kenny.

Okay.

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