After 59 days in a Saskatchewan jail, Nova Scotia resident Jeremy MacKenzie is back home.
The Canadian Armed Forces veteran and a father of three with no criminal record, was arrested at his home on the east coast on September 28, 2022.
Four days later, shackled by his wrists and ankles and surrounded by RCMP armed guards, he was flown on a private federal plane to Saskatchewan where he was remanded without bail.
He stayed in one of Christine Tell’s jails for two months - longer than he would have served had he gone to trial and been found guilty.
Doesn’t matter, cause neither a trial nor a conviction in Saskatchewan for Jeremy MacKenzie is ever going to happen. Not a chance.
The Saskatchewan RCMP’s work on MacKenzie was so brutal that they contacted him, literally within 24 hours of being freed, to update him on what they’re doing internally to look into it. Lol.
I mean, nothing says ethical and trustworthy like the RCMP investigating itself, but whatever. They’ll be held accountable.
If you’re following MacKenzie’s story, you’re going to want to refresh yourself on the legal term “stayed” (or Stay of Proceedings). It’s a term used to refer to the direction of a judge or Crown prosecutor to terminate a criminal prosecution.
It doesn’t mean the charges have been dropped, it means the prosecutor takes another look, realizes hang on, this is nonsense and we will never get a conviction, halts prosecution and gives the case back to law enforcement to either go back to investigating or shelve.
For example:
Premier Scott Moe’s second DUI charge was stayed.
Had that charge not been stayed and Shellbrook RCMP had actually investigated the crash Moe caused a short time later, he’d have been facing the possibility of life in prison.
Instead he got a stay and then a traffic ticket for killing a young mother and shattering the life of her son, who was in the passenger seat and watched her die as Scott Moe jumped out of his truck and into someone else’s, fleeing the scene without checking on either of his victims.
You didn’t think the Saskatchewan RCMP got corrupt out of the blue for Jeremy, did you? Cause they’ve been at this for a while.
Proceedings can be stayed for a variety of reasons, but I’m told typically it boils down to acknowledgement by the prosecution that there is no reasonable likelihood of conviction. What I’m told by defence lawyers is that on a practical level, they welcome a stay of proceedings basically as much as a not guilty verdict.
Technically the Crown can renew the charges within one year, but it’s rare.
MacKenzie will never go to trial in this province. There is no case.
It was never supposed to go to trial, because this was always about the political system MacKenzie rails against punishing him for what he’s said, not what he’s done, which is sure as hell nothing criminal. Not in Saskatchewan, anyway.
After being crushed by a monolithic media monster, a vindictive, toxic and dysfunctional RCMP and litigious and frankly horrific federally-funded Canadian speech monitor, Jeremy MacKenzie was supposed to plead guilty, go to jail and reemerge humbled, bowing and scraping to the powers who put him there.
He didn’t and as for the latter LOLOLOLOLOLOL omg have you met this man?
I thought I was stubborn.
I’ve reviewed everything so many times, spoken to law enforcement and Crown sources and received plenty of leaked docs. I stand behind Jeremy on every not guilty plea.
I would never just watch what happened to him happen to anyone. I may not always like or appreciate what he has to say, but I will fight til I’m dead for his right to say it, and I’d do the same for you.
Not because I think I’m a hero (but please send cookies), but because I have to protect myself and my future too.
You don’t think this can’t happen to someone else? To me or you?
It can and it will.
The CBC and people like Liberal MP and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, Rachel Gilmore and stunningly, Erica Ifill, who is currently being sued for defamation for casually and publicly labelling another woman (of colour - what?) a white supremacist, are already attempting to reinforce the false narrative that they have shoved down your throat for the past year.
The EA Hearings made them all look pretty fckin’ stupid if you ask me, so in my opinion this is nothing more than damage control:
You were never in danger from anybody, but especially MacKenzie and the Meatballs, which now that I typed it I realize is what I’m calling them forever.
They have said some seriously stupid shit that I wish they hadn’t, but I say this with kindness: those guys couldn’t terrorize their way out of a wet paper bag.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino can run, hide and keep pulling these stunts, but he will eventually have to answer for what he and his spokespeople said publicly regarding MacKenzie just days after the EA was evoked.
No, that’s not a threat.
That’s a promise.
If the concept of holding people, particularly journalists and politicians, accountable for their words and actions makes you feel personally attacked, I’m going to consider you part of the problem.
As sure as you’re sitting there, Jeremy MacKenzie will never go back to jail. The vast majority of his charges will be stayed or dropped, a process I expect will start before Christmas.
Litigation notices have already gone out. Dozens of them. The next step is claims across the board and I cannot wait, because I will make sure every bloody detail is as public as possible.
The little people - especially the tiny men who took full advantage of MacKenzie’s circumstances to mock, harass and use him to feel like white knights while building their own audiences… should be quivering.
(No need to call CSIS boys, that’s a metaphor. Don’t worry, you’re not going to get your ass physically handed to you, though frankly that’s what most of you petty, insecure weirdos deserve.)
What year is this? James DiFiore is clearly uneducated on that, given he’s stupid enough to continue to parrot this bullshit about my motivations for writing a story about another Canadian. These men are so pathetically insecure they can hardly stand themselves.
“Franklin” is the Saskatchewan RCMP’s Crown and only witness. Remember, the Saskatchewan RCMP refused to even take statements from anyone else that was there that night, including MacKenzie. That witness is an obsessive stalker fan, put mildly, who I’m pretty sure wants to wear Jeremy’s skin. Again, RCMP’s judgment here was off the charts bad.
Franklin is a truly bad person - but that’s who the Saskatchewan RCMP was willing to jump into bed with, just to show Jeremy MacKenzie who’s boss.
That worked out well, dummies.
These are a smattering of the emails I got after I started writing about Jeremy. They are coming from either that RCMP witness or even worse, we have evidence they might be coming from that witness’s handler.
Regardless, there’ll be consequences for these for the right perpetrator.
All of what’s happened to MacKenzie will be documented and discussed publicly, including names, as he rebuilds. He will be able to do that legitimately, without anyone attacking how he said it instead of what he said, because I’m going to help him do it.
The only person I know who’s better than Jeremy MacKenzie at verbal evisceration is… me.
For those of you not new around here, you may have noticed I am right out of f**ks to give about whether people like me. I’m not playing this stupid game anymore with anyone.
Okay now that’s said, I also really appreciate you and your patience with me on this. I know it’s been weird - trust me, it has been for me too.
But I’m still the same person I’ve always been and that’s not changing.
I know MacKenzie’s words have hurt some people and I do not condone that behaviour at all. I hope he’s going to choose them more wisely and at times more kindly, but he will absolutely make mistakes. He will fall down. It happens to all of us, regardless of our weakness.
Like I do with all my friends and clients, I will deal with those scenarios when and if they happen. I’m not worried.
Beyond that, I don’t know what the future holds for him, but I do know he is going to come back with a bigger and stronger presence in Canada than he had before, whether you like it or not.
MacKenzie is a natural performer and broadcaster and people love him… whether you like him or not.
As he was getting set to depart Saskatchewan on Wednesday (blessedly) in the Saskatoon airport he was approached by fans and clearly recognized by others. I’ve worked with and walked alongside all kinds of celebrities and it was the same vibe.
This fiasco is going to result in the opposite of the nefarious impact it was supposed to have on MacKenzie: it’s made him more popular and now it’s even made him sympathetic.
If he plays his cards right, his audience will get bigger.
Good job team! 👏🏻
My plea to MacKenzie’s big, vocal and protective audience is that they allow him to go through this evolutionary process fully-supported. He needs to be able to grow from this as a broadcaster, which may mean some changes, but he’ll still be who he is. He deserves the opportunity to expand his reach to a new audience that hopefully his current audience will welcome to the treefort fan club (AKA Diagolon).
Meanwhile, Saskatchewan needs to be clear that the Sask Party cooperated with a plan to wrongly accuse and imprison a man who arguably has more influence over their voting base than they do.
Geniuses.
That’s not going to end well for them either, I imagine, once MacKenzie describes for himself, over and over again until the next provincial election day, what premier Scott Moe and his Cabinet inflicted on him, nevermind the litigation that’s coming there too.
Jeremy left Saskatchewan yesterday.
Mark my words, he won’t be back on anyone’s terms but his own.
We’ll talk to you tomorrow,
