Danny Bulford Ex-RCMP joins the Resistance against Canada's corrupt Establishment | Controlled Op 19
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Danny Bulford, former member of the elite Tactical Response Unit (TRU) and member of Justin Trudeau's security detail, joins me tonight to share his journey on leaving the establishment and deciding to do the right thing.
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As Canadians reflect on everything that's happened over the past three years and we add up the lies,
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the incompetence, the corruption, we come to the conclusion that some of the behavior from our
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government and the government officials could be considered criminal. Obviously this is wrong,
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this is immoral, but are there any conservative politicians of the Conservative Party of Canada
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saying anything about this? No. So it's up to the regular Canadian men and women who are brave enough
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to stand up and say something and to call out what is clearly wrong. Tonight, Danny Bulford,
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former RCMP officer and security detail for Justin Trudeau, joins me tonight to share his journey on
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leaving the establishment and deciding to do the right thing. The conversation starts now.
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I promise you, I will not let you down. The trucks parked outside illegally should move.
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Canada's Conservatives will meet our Paris climate commitment. Enough with the woke s**t.
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So I'm Mr. Speaker, I take that back. To champion our Conservative principles. We are the party
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of law and order. To call in the auditors. We haven't yet decided whether we're going to call
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for the government to impose a mandatory test or vaccination. And we will win the next election.
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Canada must not ignore the reality of climate change.
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Why weren't Canadians vaccinated in January and February like everyone else?
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Welcome everybody to Controlled Opposition episode 19. Tonight, I'm with a very, very special guest,
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RCMP for 15 years, part of the emergency response team, which is the RCMP tactical unit and was even
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the sniper security detail sometimes for the one and only Justin Trudeau. And he was also helped with
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volunteering for safety and security down at the trucker convoy. He was arrested at the trucker
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convoy, but not charged. You may have seen him before. Danny Bulford. How are you doing today, sir?
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I'm good. Thanks, Greg. I love the name of your show, by the way. That's brilliant.
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Well, thank you. It's an honor and a privilege to have you on. Your story is a very, very important
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one as you have been part of the, one of the most major institutions in this country, the RCMP,
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our federal police force. And you have taken this journey to say, stand up and stand up for what is
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right. And I'm sure it hasn't been an easy journey. But we're going to talk about more about that this
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evening, where you, what you've been doing since the convoy. And of course, the common thread of
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where has the opposition been this, this, this whole time. And I think we'll start with that
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before the COVID era, you know, you're, you're working for the RCMP. Maybe you're following
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politics in Canada. When is the first time that you started to question the conservative party,
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or maybe just start to question, you know, the political establishment as a whole? Were you always
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cynical about Canadian politics? No, not always. And even, you know, prior to COVID, I definitely
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leaned more conservative, for sure. I, you know, I thought, at the time, I thought Stephen Harper was,
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you know, some people didn't like him, but he seemed like a very competent, intelligent man who
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was an extremely hard worker. Sure. And, but, you know, when I was early on in my career, and I was
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working and living up in UConn, I tried to keep an open mind when I really started to be like, okay,
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like, I need to take voting, at least pretty seriously, I should at least know what the
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different parties are trying to sell, and see who I align with the most. And really, the only time I
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ever considered anyone other than Harper for PM was when Jack Layton was in charge of the NDP, or was
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running, was leader of NDP. I took an honest look at their platform, but I just, at the end of the day,
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I just couldn't vote for the local candidate. That was a factor in my decision making.
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But then, forgive me, a lot of people have jokingly criticized me for this before. But at one point
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in time in the federal election, when I was still living in the UConn, I even voted for green. And
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not that I was like, on board with the climate change agenda whatsoever. But when I was looking at
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the local candidates for UConn, the conservative guy was basically just running on what he had ran
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on the previous election. And that he kind of hung his hat on on the gun registry. And that was it,
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like the abolishing, abolishing of the gun registry. The liberal I couldn't vote for the NDP candidate I
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couldn't vote for. And the only guy that was like, well spoken, qualified and articulate was the Green
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Party who was like, he was like a local UConn biologist. And I was like, well, I want Stephen
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Harper to be the Prime Minister out of all of the leaders that are available. But the only guy locally
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that I feel good about voting for would be John Stryker, who was the part that their federal
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candidate at the time. But I don't think there's any shame in that. I certainly think it does make
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you a minority in this country because I because unfortunately, Canadians don't really follow
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that closely what happens in Canadian politics. And I wish all of them would actually learn their
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local candidates in a federal election. But I really think that happens. That is the minority
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scenario. Most of the time people are just saying, who's the leader of the federal party? I'm going to
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vote. I'm going to vote for them. But but good for you for for doing your due diligence as a citizen,
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right, to actually learn about about your local options. Imagine that.
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Well, then. But then when I when I transferred to Ottawa, and like you said, I was regularly involved
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in beefing up or supporting the protection of the Prime Minister's detail. I got to see firsthand like
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how Stephen Harper operated. And he he has a reputation for being a workaholic. And it's true.
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Like he all that guy did was work. And it his version of working was not just flitzing all over
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the world for photo ops. And, you know, we're living the rock star lifestyle that our current
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Prime Minister does. He wasn't he wasn't singing covers of Queen at the at the piano or anything
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like that. No. And even one time I was I was doing like a nighttime patrol like foot patrol out in
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around his cottage property. And I was kind of just doing something to occupy myself that night.
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And I was testing out night vision that we had been recently issued. And so I was doing like a
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little foot patrol around the property and night vision. And it was about three or four o'clock in
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the morning. And Prime Minister Harper was on his laptop working like everybody else was asleep. And he
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was I I saw the little glow from the back screen of his laptop shining on his face in the window of his
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cottage. And I was like, he never stopped. All he did was work all the time. So I long story short,
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to answer your question. Most of the time of my life, I've leaned conservative. And I think that's
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because of like people like him and the competence that he displayed. But I have never been like a diehard
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one party or the other kind of person. I try to vote for the specific leader or the specific candidate.
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Most of them skepticism around the conservatives. Like that's what you asked about, right? I think
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probably mostly began when they were silent with during all of the COVID restrictions and mandates,
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because it was well, it was politically risky to challenge the narrative, even though that's the
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opposition's job to do that. Right. And I was really disappointed in Aaron O'Toole as the as the leader
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during the election campaign, because I thought, this guy has it in the bag, people are done with
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Trudeau. They're done with all of this COVID nonsense. All he has to do is just basically say,
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hey, I support freedom of choice, because that's part of our charter protected rights in Canada.
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And he I think he would have had the victory, but he didn't he waffled and gave the typical political
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non answer. And it backfired on him. Yeah. And we were seeing clips of we're all in this together
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during the debates on TV during that election. Mandates were not even a debate talking point.
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You know, the the fact that we were just going to force mandates on everybody was sort of just
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this unanimous yes, with the conservative party, you know, liberal party, green, orange, everybody.
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Well, and what shocked me the most about the conservatives in that regard is
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there was plenty of evidence already available at that time, plenty of experts, plenty of evidence
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available to to crush the government's horrendous response to COVID-19. And they could like they
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could have totally taken the government to task if they had just chosen to have a little bit of
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courage as opposed to willful blindness. And they would they would they could have been the heroes of
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the day. But instead, they chose to say, you know, I call it silently safe, in their mind. And that was
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when I, I lot of I lost a lot of faith in them at that time. There has been the odd individual, like
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certain individuals that I will openly support, like Roman Baber. He was, he sacrificed his job and his
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seat in his career as well to speak out against what he thought was wrong and an injustice. So,
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you know, I acknowledge him, to a degree, Leslie Lewis, as well, she's been vocally, you know,
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vocally opposing the globalist agenda and mandates. So I will, I will support individuals who oppose it.
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But as a whole, I think the opposition failed to do their job in that last election campaign, and even
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and throughout the declared pandemic. And in regards to those specific issues, they are still failing to
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really to really oppose it in a in a rigorous manner, right? Like, I think it was it's opportunistic to gain
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popularity when something like the convoy is happening. And then to like, be completely silent
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on it after the fact, when, I mean, the evidence just keeps pouring out more and more and more that
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this was an absolute disastrous response that destroyed our economy, destroyed relationships,
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destroyed careers. And if they wanted to strike while the iron was hot, like, what are you waiting
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for? Like, this could, if you if you had the gall to talk about these issues and present real evidence,
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and, and experts who are willing to speak to it to the corporate media, they would as the official
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opposition, the corporate media pretty much has no choice, but to at least report on what you're saying,
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right? Like, so it makes the censorship much more difficult if it's coming from the official
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opposition. That's right. That's right. And the because a lot of the mainstream media is at least
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partially subsidized now by the federal government. Sure, they might report on you telling the facts as
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the opposition party, they might make you look bad, they might try to skew it and spin it. But in my
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personal opinion, you know, the media needs to be challenged in this country. Because, because there's
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that unity right now between the liberal party and the media, they're just they're just like this,
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they're, you know, totally on on board on the same page, the exact same rhetoric, the exact same sort
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of values, even in morals. And it's not being challenged right now by the opposition party. And in
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fact, the opposition party is playing ball with them to a large degree, except for a few kind of comments
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made here and there to for for Pierre Paul, you have to pump up his chest. But yeah, they have no they
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seem to have no problem challenging the media on the issues that they appear to feel are politically
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safe. Right, right. But for whatever reason, no one wants to talk about the harms of the COVID response.
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You know, like a failure of lockdowns, the failure of masks, the failure of the injections, you know,
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the suppression of treatment protocols that could actually save people and keep people at a hospital,
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all of it like that. I mean, you pull one thread in the ball, the it just unravels even more. But
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I, you know, considering how much damage was inflicted by the response.
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I just can't fathom why you wouldn't take the opportunity to show how it was complete,
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utter incompetence and failure, and maybe even, well, not maybe, likely even decept, deliberate
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deception. Yeah, on behalf of the current government, right. But they stick to their safe topics that,
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you know, they don't want to be labeled anti-vaxxers or anything like that, even though
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it's such a ridiculous term. But it's, it's again, it's that playing safe politically,
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when I think what we need is like, some real courageous people who are willing to
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speak the truth. No, even if even if it means you become unpopular as a politician.
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I think you're, you're absolutely right. I think you nailed it with that. And I'm just going to bring
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this up on screen. There's other examples of bit of this. But this is, we have, you know,
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Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, Pierre Polyev, and they're all I believe that's the Green Party
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candidate or Green Party leader as well. But they're all marching for I believe is the New Year in Chinese
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New Year in Vancouver. And I bring this up in relation to that, you know, Chinese interference
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that's been happening. And they want to do an inquiry into the Chinese interference. And of
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course, there is the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act, there's all these inquiries going
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on. And I mean, well, first of all, Pierre Polyev did not even he basically rubber stamped the Rouleau
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Commission. After the use of the Emergencies Act, he did not challenge this conclusion, which essentially
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said, Yeah, you can use the the Emergencies Act on a peaceful protest. You were part of that. Did you,
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you gave testimony there, right? Yeah, I did. Yeah. And what, what was your feeling after?
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There's a specific press conference that Pierre Polyev gave. And he, he spoke, he was kind of,
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Hey, what did you think of the conclusion? And he tried to spin it in this way of like, Hey,
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CBC, you're asking me a tough question, or like, you're being biased, but he didn't really say that
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he stands with a treat, like he was asked, Do you regret standing with a truck or convoy? He did not
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answer that question, which I feel is a very simple answer. And he essentially sort of tried
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to be critical of the conclusion of the Rouleau Commission, but like he kind of just dropped it
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after that. What was your, what was your, your perspective on that when that happened? Because
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this is a pretty big deal. This is a pretty big deal. You know, there it's setting a legal precedent
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in a way that you can now, you know, call the emergency on a pre-small protest. If you feel
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like it, if there's honking going on, um, and absolutely like no violence or even vandalism
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really that of any evidence at all, um, except against the convoy. That's right. That's right.
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Mult. Yeah. There's a whole list when it comes to that. Yeah. A lot of video evidence, by the way,
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evidence, keyword video evidence. Um, yeah, by, um, so my perspective about, uh, Pierre's
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responses, you know, he is clearly an articulate speaker. He's always well prepared when he wants
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to go after the government for something. Yep. And yet here is another example of him shying
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away from a clear opportunity to speak truth to power and to speak truth to the media and with all
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kinds of evidence to back it up. You know, even just from the commission itself, it was clear no
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matter how much they tried to twist words from CSIS or the police agencies, not one of the major police
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agencies involved. Ottawa police, OPP, RCMP testified that they believed the criteria for the emergencies
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act had been met, nor did CSIS. And then they brought in their own, the prime minister's own
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national security advisor to try and basically what her testimony summarized in my mind was I didn't like
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what the dedicated intelligence agencies were giving me for intelligence. So I created my own open source
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intelligence team to feed the narrative that these people were dangerous and therefore we needed the
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emergencies act. And yet, you know, so the evidence was clear. They didn't meet the criteria. And even,
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even Rouleau's conclusion was, was not super clear cut, right? Like it was like, well, you know,
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and, and I kind of saw this coming. I anticipated that they were going to put a lot of the blame on the
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police for inability to work effectively together. Because they, the police are typically the punching
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bag after anything like this happens. But then there's also, I, you know, section two of the
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CSIS Act was the criteria that they had to meet in order to be justified in invoking the, the
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emergencies act. And it was testified to buy all of the national security agencies that were tested
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involved there. The experts, the experts, if you will, the experts that were supposed to rely on
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that it did not meet section two of the, of the CSIS Act. And then of course, what I anticipated coming,
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which certainly did in the conclusion, or in the report was a recommendation that while perhaps we have
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to expand the scope of the criteria beyond just such the narrow scope of section two of the CSIS Act in
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order to invoke the emergent, to declare a national emergency and invoke the emergencies act. And
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sorry, that's a, that's a long winded answer also, but again, clear cut evidence. They acted
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inappropriately. They overstepped. You have an opportunity to take them to task with a lot of
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evidence to support your argument. And you don't, because it's not politically popular anymore
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to be, you know, in support of the trucker convoy. Yeah, no. And that I appreciate, you know,
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it's not a long winded answer. It's a detailed answer. And these details are really, really important.
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And, and it's, I feel it's silly or, you know, we should, we should wear a clown. We should put clown
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makeup on Danny. If we're actually going to talk about this and say, Oh, there was, there's nothing
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political about this decision. You know, like it's obviously this decision feels very political in
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nature, especially when you compare it to the recent PSAC strike for the, you know, the public
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service workers who were shutting things down, shutting some of the same infrastructure down
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during their protest. And they were getting support from the media. They were getting all,
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it was this kind of this great righteous protest for, for the public service workers who are asking
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for more money, asking for more taxpayer money. And if you compare that to the way in which,
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you know, the truckers were treated, well, here you have this, this new kind of strange legal precedent
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where, you know, someone hired by Trudeau can now supersede the opinion of a CSIS member. And I think
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you said the CSIS act, right? It's insane. And of course, who is talking about it? Who is challenging
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this? Like, cause these are important details. These are the sort of the principles and the rules
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that make up our rule of law. And also, you know, gives us a guide map or a guideline when these tricky
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situations come up. And of course it's kind of come to the pattern of, Oh, well, if you're protesting
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against us, against the government in a sort of meaningful way, well, we're going to kind of do
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what we want and change the rules. However we like, at least that's the kind of message that I'm
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receiving, uh, during all this. And I can't even imagine what it's like for you, who is actually
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part of the RCMP at one point. Yeah. Well, I mean, one of the things I spoke to recently,
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um, when I testified for the NCI was my loss of trust in institutions, including the RCMP and the
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court system and everyone who's supposed to actually protect our rights and freedoms, you know,
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especially, especially agencies like the RCMP and the courts and CSIS who are, you know, it you're
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supposed to be intelligence and evidence led yet. You're just going along with a narrative that has
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yet to really provide any solid, meaningful evidence to support what they're doing or even what they're
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saying. But I'm not just talking about COVID mandates. I'm even talking about the way that
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the reporting and the narrative surrounding the convoy itself, you know, you had, you know,
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thankfully we had a few, uh, officers from the OPP who actually called that out a little bit,
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right? Like, uh, the superintendent in charge of intelligence for all of Ontario
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openly said that the, what he was seeing in the media did not match what was truly happening on the
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ground. Anyway, um, going back though, like I was testifying to my loss of trust in these institutions
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that are supposed to be intelligence led evidence led. And it seems like my, my, the message I'm
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receiving is does evidence even matter anymore? Or is it all based on public opinion, manipulated
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public opinion, corporate media, manipulated public opinion? And, you know, does the law even matter
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anymore? Like the way that the law was written, you didn't meet the threshold. Oh, well, too bad. We'll
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just change the law to suit our purposes. Like, like the charter itself, it's the, it's part of the
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constitution, which is supposed to be the supreme law of Canada. And they, well, no, your, your rights and
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freedoms aren't really rights and freedoms. It's more privileges is that that's, that's the impression
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that I have come away with after the last three years.
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Mm-hmm. Wow. Um, and yeah, maybe while we're on this topic of just like, you know, the failures,
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uh, the epic failures of these institutions, uh, you know, part, part of the reason I started this
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show controlled opposition is I feel like we saw the true character of this, um, you know,
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Canadian regime, I call it sometimes now, uh, after the trucker convoy, because, you know, we had a
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peaceful protest. We had this large demonstration in a democratic nation and there, there was no
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negotiations. There was no sort of time of day for these people at all. Um, and of course it was met
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with police violence. And I would love to hear your perspective on this because you are, you're a former
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RCMP and you had the RCMP, uh, you know, on horses, literally crushing people, um, who opposed the
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state. And, you know, after, after the dust was settled, it's like, we're just kind of moving on.
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We're not going to talk about that happening, or we're going to justify everything that, that,
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that, uh, was done. Um, you know, how, how is that? Because, you know, obviously you've, you've been
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a RCMP member, you, you believed, you believe in this country, you believe in these institutions.
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What was that like that, that horrible moment when you were getting thrown in a police car
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at the convoy? Um, well, take me to that moment of just like, you know, how feeling, how far your
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country had fallen in that moment? My, my personal arrest story was pretty low key. I, it actually,
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I kind of had accepted the fact that as soon as they started arresting people like Chris and Tamara,
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that I would be on that list. Um, it was much more bothersome to see the use of force that was used
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against other protesters, like Chris Deering, the veteran who got kicked in need when he was down
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on the ground, the horse trampling incident. And I actually not to defend the RCMP, but just for
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accuracy sake, that was actually Toronto police mounted unit. Okay. But I know everyone thinks
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it's the Mounties because they're on horseback and because it was the Mountie chat group that got
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leaked afterwards. Right. Sorry, not the, a Mountie chat group from the musical ride, I believe
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that we're tweeting all the horrible things about Jack boots on the ground, et cetera,
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after the fact. Yeah. Hey, we should learn that. We should do that exercise or whatever it was.
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Like very professional, very professional, you know, for something professionalism is supposed to
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be one of our core values. And it's like, where's the professionalism in that? Right. Um, and I mean,
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and it's, it's just like pure stupidity because I mean, one thing we all know that even if that
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wasn't leaked, all of those communications are subject to an ATIP request, like just pure stupidity
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to put something like that in a written form. But, um, well, it's almost like maybe they feel
00:27:06.460
they're above the law, right? They're, you know, they're, they're on the right side. They're on the
00:27:10.420
right team. They're going to get away with making comments like that. You clearly think that you're
00:27:14.680
in the right or that you're justified, right? Like if, if you felt gross about what was happening,
00:27:20.020
then you probably wouldn't be engaging in that type of conversation, right? You'd be trying to
00:27:25.900
avoid it at all costs. You'd be trying to find a way out of that situation. But, um, sorry, what was
00:27:33.580
your original question again? Like just how that, how that was for me as a former RCMP to see that
00:27:38.280
happen? Yeah, that was rough. That was a really hard pill to swallow. Um, you know, because Greg,
00:27:45.200
I I've, I've been to other major events and lots of other protests and I've seen the lack of police
00:27:53.700
response when protesters have been aggressive, both towards other people and like the opposing group
00:28:01.460
or towards the police. And, and then sort of see what I saw with the response against the trucker
00:28:11.000
convoy. I mean, I'll try and, when I saw them mass mobilizing that morning on the 18th,
00:28:20.320
I knew that, okay, this is it there. They've had enough. They're going to push through and they're
00:28:29.300
going to take trucks away. And I kind of, that to me would have personally would have probably been
00:28:35.260
a reasonable response. Like, okay, you're going to push and you're going to take ground and then
00:28:39.620
you're going to remove the trucks because you're trying to clear the protest. But all of the other
00:28:44.580
things that we saw, like the horse issue, the, you know, the, the physical violence and the, you know,
00:28:51.800
the strikes, the, the pepper spray, all that stuff, the butt end of the rifle. Yeah. Right. All of that
00:28:58.540
against people who were offering virtually no resistance other than just standing there and
00:29:04.020
letting themselves be pushed back. That was, that was, that was very upsetting to me. And that was hard
00:29:11.280
for me to watch. And that, that was one of those moments where I was like, how much worse can this
00:29:17.140
get? Like, where do we go from here? If this, if that, like, we had already seen other kind of, like,
00:29:24.820
like, nonsensical responses from police, you know, removing a mother from a hockey rink for refusing to
00:29:32.020
what, you know, refusing to show a vax pass because she was, wanted to watch her kid play hockey.
00:29:37.760
You know, we're watching that young Calgary kid get tackled or taken down to the ground because he
00:29:45.120
was, how dare he be outside skating on an outdoor rink playing pond hockey with his friends.
00:29:50.880
You know, like when, that's not criminal, but they made the, but they, they, they bought into the
00:29:56.480
propaganda that everyone was a, was a walking hazard, even though there was no evidence to support
00:30:03.180
that whatsoever. And, and what just bothers me to my core is like, almost every police officer that I
00:30:13.520
know, that I've been friends with or colleagues with in the past, we all know that government is
00:30:19.580
full of shit, pardon my language, and the media lies about everything. They twist everything to their
00:30:26.960
narrative. And so why, why the intense buy-in on this particular case? Like, why would people be
00:30:35.260
so willing to just hand over their, their rights and freedoms? I don't know that that's, that's been
00:30:45.960
a struggle for me. That's been the hardest part for me to reconcile, uh, from the last couple of years
00:30:51.200
just like, how could former colleagues be on board with this? Mm-hmm. Yes. So you're saying there's
00:30:57.960
kind of, there's always been this sentiment, um, even in the police force and the RCMP, that's like,
00:31:03.340
ah, you know, these politicians are maybe kind of, you know, obviously not a publicly held opinion,
00:31:07.820
but like people are like, yeah, you know, the, the politicians are kind of full of it and the media
00:31:12.060
kind of spins stuff. Uh, and I guess police officers kind of know this because they go on calls and then
00:31:18.380
they see how the calls are reported in the news and they're like, that's not what happened.
00:31:21.780
Yeah. Um, yeah, absolutely. So I guess that is, so I guess that's widespread. Everybody knows that
00:31:27.800
everybody knows that the government does what's best for the government and the media twists
00:31:31.960
everything to fit their narrative that they're trying to sell. Mm-hmm. They sell outrage and fear.
00:31:38.020
Yeah. And that is a great question. Why is this different? Why has this COVID thing been so
00:31:42.800
different? Why has there been such a, what I would call, I guess, a moral failing of so many people,
00:31:47.540
um, within these major institutions. Uh, and I, I want to bring up, I was watching another podcast
00:31:53.920
you were doing with Alex Kamana on Patriot propaganda, shout outs to Patriot propaganda.
00:31:59.480
And you brought up the fact that you were listening to, uh, an audio book for the book, uh, ordinary men,
00:32:05.280
uh, leading up to, uh, leading up to COVID. I think it was before COVID, but for those who don't know,
00:32:11.600
it's a disturbing tale of how a group of men went from ordinary to brutal hardened killers,
00:32:16.760
executing the Nazi mission during the Holocaust and examines in detail, the evolution of these
00:32:21.860
men's attitudes from the beginning, when most experienced discussed at the gruesome tasks,
00:32:26.720
they were asked to carry out through, through to the end when almost all had become accustomed
00:32:31.280
to the cruelty. And some even came to delight in it above all, it's a warning and a reminder of what
00:32:36.820
humanity is capable of in its darkest moments. Um, and I think in the podcast, you were saying how
00:32:44.580
you were listening to this book and thinking, I never want to be, uh, that guy. Like, I hope it
00:32:50.280
never comes to that, which is crazy that, that you listened to this right before COVID happened.
00:32:56.980
That's a, so I was listening to that audio book while I was doing like a personal construction
00:33:02.000
project back in 2020 when I was in my, on my days off. Okay. And then, um, and even prior to that,
00:33:09.420
actually, when I was in, uh, Papua New Guinea as part of the PM's protection detail,
00:33:15.160
I was actually reading the book 1984. So, I mean, I, a lot of things were aligning to kind of
00:33:22.440
create the mindset that I needed, I guess, to say like, what is happening in Canada? Why,
00:33:27.880
why is it, why is no one actually looking at evidence and willing to say anything truthful?
00:33:34.080
But, um, yeah, so ordinary men, I think the reason why that resonated with me so much is like,
00:33:40.580
cause that wasn't just like Hitler youth people who grew up like being indoctrinated with the,
00:33:47.940
the Nazi propaganda and the Nazi ideology. Sure. They were, they were just regular citizens,
00:33:53.720
mostly from Hamburg, Germany, if I remember correctly. And they got sucked in to a reserve
00:34:00.260
police battalion as part of the, as part of the German war effort. And they kind of were tasked
00:34:06.640
with cleaning out the ghettos in Poland after the war machine had moved through. And yeah, I remember
00:34:13.060
I listened to that book. It was a recommended reading from Jordan Peterson. And so I listened
00:34:19.440
to it and it was horrifying. It was grotesque. What these men let themselves become because they
00:34:25.320
were unwilling to say no, when they saw things that were horribly vile and wrong. And I remember
00:34:32.840
thinking to myself, my exact thoughts were, I hope I would at least be strong enough to resist and say
00:34:40.980
no, but more likely someone of my background and training, like, no, I would be part of the resistance.
00:34:48.900
Like I would be, you know, trying to get people out of there. I'd be trying to extract people out of
00:34:53.880
those situations, or I'd be like, ambushing Nazis in the bush, like, you know, the movie Defiance,
00:35:01.100
Mm-hmm. Yeah. And when it comes to the, you know, the moral failings or the kind of
00:35:08.680
the conflicts that these men have in this book, what do you think the comparisons are to, you know,
00:35:17.020
what's happening within, you know, many institutions in Canada, but maybe let's just use the police force
00:35:22.480
as an example, because during the convoy, we had this one young woman who was a police officer who
00:35:28.440
made a video saying, Hey, I support the truckers. And maybe there's like a few other police officers
00:35:33.780
that you could count on one hand that stood up to say something. And I'm pretty sure they, I don't
00:35:37.980
know, maybe you can fill in the details. I don't know how much, how many consequences they faced
00:35:41.500
for daring to stand up to this. But why don't you think there were more police officers or RCMP
00:35:49.220
officers like yourself who kind of said, I'm out, like, this is not right. This is not what I signed
00:35:54.960
up for. This is not me helping my country. Well, I think there was, I do think there was a lot more
00:36:01.420
that left than are publicly known, right? Yeah, like, you're correct in saying, like, just a small
00:36:07.640
handful spoke out publicly. But I know, the there was a, there's been an exodus from the police
00:36:17.780
community in Canada over what happened with COVID mandates and the trucker convoy. I think we actually
00:36:25.540
have a much larger support base than is publicly known. But again, it's kind of that, like, silent
00:36:34.760
supporters, you know, which, as much as it is appreciated, it's also like, well, what are
00:36:40.840
you doing? Like, are you at least, like, trying to fight back against this on the inside, like
00:36:46.120
internally? And that's what I try and encourage them to do. Because, you know, to go against the
00:36:52.320
grain publicly, you're pretty much guaranteeing that that's the end of your career. But, you
00:36:58.040
know, internally is a different story. And so I just, I guess my message to them would be
00:37:05.140
like, you have so much more power and authority than you think you do. Like, you think you're
00:37:11.320
beholden to these, these, you know, senior managers, but they cannot exist, the police force
00:37:18.320
cannot function without the people on the ground, right? It's much like Canadian citizens
00:37:22.620
as a whole. Like, the government has authority over you because of your compliance with their
00:37:28.000
demands. Whereas, you know, they don't have the ability to enforce their, they don't have
00:37:36.980
the ability to enforce their will on everyone. If enough people were just like, nope, not doing
00:37:43.720
it. That's crossed the line. I guess, probably, but sorry, to answer your question, I think
00:37:54.260
the reason why we didn't see more people speaking out against it publicly was, you know, pay and
00:37:59.920
pension is part of it, for sure. Like job security, which I can sympathize with, because the last
00:38:06.700
two years has been a real slog. And it's, there's been many moments where I've questioned what
00:38:13.160
I did, if it was the right thing to do, you know, I think it was morally, it was the right
00:38:18.260
thing to do. But it's had a really, it's had a serious impact on my family, for sure. But
00:38:25.920
um, and I think even, maybe even more so than the, the pay, like loss of income, loss of career,
00:38:35.600
is that social alienation. Because anyone who, anyone who questioned the narrative, even if they
00:38:43.540
were very reasonable and trying to always present evidence to support their argument against their
00:38:49.460
government's policies, was smeared as like, you know, right wing extremist, ideological, motivated,
00:38:59.780
violent extremist, you know, conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, you know, all kinds of
00:39:05.780
pejorative names. And that, that makes people, very few people are comfortable with being attacked like
00:39:16.340
that publicly. And just carrying on like that, that I think that those intimidation tactics work
00:39:22.900
pretty well on most people. Yeah. And, and speaking of that, you know, speaking, getting called all of
00:39:30.020
these names, um, a recent tweet from CSIS says, I M V E, which stands for ideologically motivated
00:39:38.420
violent extremism is fueled by extreme views around race, gender and authority. And, um, I mean, how does it
00:39:46.180
feel to be a former RCMP? Someone who stood up for the peoples against mandates, you know, stood up for
00:39:53.940
bodily autonomy. And then in a way, you know, it's, it's not too far away from being accused yourself
00:40:01.060
being accused as being part of an I M V E. Like, like you immediately you stand up for your country.
00:40:06.500
And in a way you're being vilified by almost like your, your former colleagues, uh, over there at CSIS.
00:40:13.860
Um, well, well, I, I, part of me knows that I've never done anything to fit the true criteria of what
00:40:26.740
an I M V E would be. And I've never promoted violence. I've never promoted hatred of any kind.
00:40:32.100
I, but I have no doubt that I was investigated as such. And so again, it's just, where's your evidence?
00:40:40.660
What, what evidence are guiding your actions? Like you need to really think about that. Like evidence
00:40:47.620
is supposed to matter. And it did in, in my perspective previously, it did matter, but
00:40:54.660
we're, you know, when people talk about like Orwellian future, like it definitely seems like
00:41:04.740
we're kind of on a trajectory of, you know, new, like, I'll give you an example, like new,
00:41:11.620
new speak. Remember that? Have you ever read that book? 1984? I have. Yeah. Speak. New speak. Yeah.
00:41:16.820
Like, uh, I, you're constantly hearing like misinformation, disinformation and I like that.
00:41:22.100
Those are relatively new terms that just came about within the last few years. And it's like,
00:41:26.180
really, what does it mean? Like information is information. Neither it's accurate or it's not.
00:41:31.940
So why are you, but, but it's just, it's just another tactic to try and like divide and smear
00:41:37.460
people. That's all it is. And so I feel like I don't, I know, honestly, this might sound jaded,
00:41:49.700
but I just don't have a whole lot of faith in the RCMP and the CSIS and CSIS or the DND even for that
00:41:57.060
matter. Like, I know that there's lots of people that probably work for those organizations that are
00:42:02.500
good, hardworking people to join for the right reasons. Like, I know that's true. I've worked
00:42:07.140
with them, but the leadership or the people in charge of those institutions are just buying right
00:42:15.140
in to the, to this woke Marxist type mindset. You know, we're gonna, we have to, it's more and more
00:42:26.660
centralized control. Right. And it's, you forget about reality, forget about what real evidence
00:42:33.460
says. We're just, you tell us what policy you want us to implement government and we'll go along with it.
00:42:41.940
I totally agree with you. And, and it's, this is this, you know, to use the term woke to make it
00:42:51.220
simple. It's like this sort of mentality, this Marxist mentality, this, this corrupted
00:42:56.660
sort of a value system that's in a way antithetical to nationalism and actually being truly Canadian.
00:43:05.140
Uh, it is infecting all these major institutions, but you know, Pierre Polyev, the leader of the
00:43:10.820
conservative party, the opposition is saying, you know, we're against the woke, you know,
00:43:14.180
we're going to stop the woke. We're against the woke. And it's like, well, Pierre Polyev,
00:43:18.100
CSIS is starting to say stuff that is woke. You know, the military is starting to say, say stuff and
00:43:23.780
have these values that are woke. Um, obviously you're not going to talk about that because, uh,
00:43:29.060
I don't know, I guess it's not good political strategy, but, um, you know, this is why I really
00:43:34.340
believe that it's much bigger than the next election. If we really want to turn this country
00:43:38.100
around, it's much bigger than the next election because, you know, the opposition is not going
00:43:45.060
to be able to change the face and the value system of CSIS and RCMP, uh, once they get elected,
00:43:51.380
at least if they were planning on doing that, why wouldn't they be talking about that now?
00:44:01.380
I think that those organizations are very prone to trying to appease the government of the day.
00:44:08.500
So I think if there was some concrete government policy that might have an impact
00:44:14.100
on those institutions, but I think it's like you said, the election is just one piece, right? Like
00:44:22.180
the current government of the day is just one part of the solution. I think as a whole, our society has
00:44:29.700
citizens have abdicated their responsibility to stand up for themselves and say that something is
00:44:38.740
not true when they believe it's not true, you know, and to, and to be actively interested and involved
00:44:45.460
in what, you know, what is happening at the local provincial and federal levels of government and
00:44:52.100
public policy, because it does, you know, it does, it has an impact on your life. I know people are very
00:44:57.620
busy and you don't, well, not many people are interested in politics. And truthfully, I'm, I was one of those
00:45:04.660
people for a lot of my life. But at the end of the day, their policies do impact your life. Now,
00:45:17.380
I'm trying to adopt the mindset that I'm not going to count on any politician to come save the day on
00:45:25.300
my behalf. And it's on me. It's all on me and my family to make sure that we are independent and
00:45:32.420
resilient, and that we focus on our time and attention on building the life we want, as opposed
00:45:40.820
to constantly worrying about what some talking head in Ottawa, or in the provincial legislator,
00:45:47.700
legislature is saying. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. As Jeremy McKenzie says, expect to self rescue,
00:45:56.740
or maybe that's a reference to a military term. But I think that's certainly a great mentality.
00:46:05.940
I don't think you should put too much faith in any politician, especially if they're part of the
00:46:10.500
establishment. And especially if they've proven that they, that they're playing all these weird
00:46:15.780
games of not being straight up honest, and not really proving themselves to have moral character.
00:46:21.460
And, you know, this conservative party, man, where is their moral character? You know,
00:46:28.180
of course, they're concerned about the price of milk, they're concerned about finances. But with
00:46:34.100
everything that's happened over the past three years, they don't seem to be able to take any sort
00:46:38.580
of moral stance on anything. I mean, especially when it comes to the COVID stuff, they're acting like
00:46:46.260
the establishment, like it never even happened. Like the National Citizens Inquiry, for example.
00:46:51.140
You know, this is an organization, a great organization you testified at, that's kind of
00:46:56.020
collecting all the receipts, collecting all the evidence of the wrongdoing, of the incompetence,
00:47:01.300
of the potential corruption, of the potential criminality of what's happened over the past three
00:47:06.500
years of this government responding to COVID. And the conservative party is not going to touch it.
00:47:12.340
They're not going to touch it. You know, they, they like to talk about the inquiry into the use
00:47:16.820
of the Emergencies Act. They like to talk about the the inquiry into the election interference,
00:47:22.100
but they're not going to talk about the, the inquiry, the National Citizens Inquiry,
00:47:26.980
that's actually going to try and hold this government accountable with all of these very
00:47:32.180
questionable decisions they've made over the past, over the past three years, right?
00:47:36.180
Well, I think, I'm sure they probably have a team of strategists that are advising what to speak,
00:47:46.580
what, what is safe to speak about and what's not when you're, I guess, the end goal is trying to
00:47:51.940
appeal to the widest voter base as possible. And so that's why some topics are taboo and some aren't,
00:48:00.580
even if it's, you know, I think it, securing the number of votes is more important than saying
00:48:09.700
it's true. Or, yeah, no, I'll leave it at that, than saying what's true. It's more important to
00:48:16.820
get the right amount of votes to secure the election victory than it is to speak the truth.
00:48:22.180
Right. And, and I, I agree, like that's what their strategy is. But I guess my problem with that
00:48:29.940
is it's about the party winning power. And this party hasn't really proven to me that they are
00:48:37.220
going to help the people, you know, that they weren't there to fight the mandates when it was
00:48:41.060
important. They haven't even really stood up to political prisoners after the convoy, even though they
00:48:48.180
use the convoy or at least Pierre Polyev used the convoy to gain popularity, to win his leadership
00:48:54.020
race for the conservative party. So, um, I don't know more and more. And I say this on the show a
00:48:59.300
lot. I really feel, you know, as much as I detest, uh, and vilify Justin Trudeau, um, there is this sort
00:49:06.820
of gross dishonesty that's coming from Pierre Polyev because he is kind of telling an even worse lie.
00:49:11.700
You know, he's saying that he's going to fight the woke. He's staying,
00:49:14.100
he's going to like save us from Trudeau. But on some of the worst issues, he is the same, uh,
00:49:20.580
as Trudeau. But, um, we, uh, we, we are going to wrap it up here shortly. I did want to kind of give
00:49:27.860
you, um, just one, probably one of the worst examples of something that, um, Pierre Polyev will
00:49:33.940
not talk about liberals burn Bible during a fire ban in Calgary and get caught. So we have people
00:49:49.700
burning Bibles over in, um, uh, at a demonstration with Josh Alexander. And, uh, you know, the,
00:49:57.300
the very next day there was a tweet from Pierre Polyev who was condemning something that was like
00:50:02.340
Islamophobic happening. And you know, that's fine. If he wants to tweet about that, but like,
00:50:07.220
we have a viral video here of Bibles being burned. And for some reason, Pierre Polyev is not standing
00:50:14.820
up for this young Catholic kid, Josh Alexander. What, what, what do you think is, uh, is going on here?
00:50:22.180
Why is this something that, uh, Pierre Polyev seems to refuse to talk about?
00:50:26.580
Well, I mean, I suspect that it's because Josh took his, Josh Alexander's initial stand was in
00:50:36.420
opposition to gender ideology in school, right? Like, I think his, his origin story of when he
00:50:43.380
kind of became public was he was, he got suspended, I think, for saying in class that he believed that
00:50:49.460
there was only two genders. And I think he was opposed to, um, like transgender boys using the
00:50:57.460
female washroom at the school. I think that's kind of how his story started. Correct. And so again,
00:51:03.380
that's another one of those political hot potatoes that a lot of politicians are probably hoping that
00:51:08.820
you're not going to ask them questions about because it's a, it's a sensitive topic which they
00:51:13.540
will be attacked for in the media. If they answer, you know, if they give the incorrect answer,
00:51:20.740
as opposed to just, I don't know, I, maybe I'm too simplistic in my thinking, but
00:51:28.260
if I had any desire to be a politician, I would try and take the approach, like, hey, you ask me a
00:51:33.940
question, I'll answer. If you like it, great, vote for me. If you don't, then don't vote for me,
00:51:37.940
vote for someone else. I'm not going to change who I am to appease the mob.
00:51:45.380
Yeah, that's right. And, um, it's, it's, it's funny that, oh, I guess he doesn't want to talk
00:51:51.140
about that topic. It's a hot potato. And it's like, but Pierre, you're supposed to be fighting
00:51:55.060
the woke man. You're not gonna, you're not gonna stand up for this, uh, for this Catholic who's
00:52:00.740
basically doing exactly that. Right, man. Um, well, I guess it's, you know, that in the,
00:52:09.540
in the woke circles, people are more equal than others. And maybe in other circles,
00:52:15.700
some people are more woke than others or some issues are more woke than others.
00:52:19.060
Yeah. Yeah. There's, there's a whole hierarchy of woke. Right. Um, but, uh, we will wrap it up here
00:52:26.900
shortly, but I, I did kind of want to go in on, on a deep topic with yourself because, you know,
00:52:31.220
as someone who has been a member of the RCMP and really, really put your, your, your heart,
00:52:38.420
sweat and tears and blood into, into this nation as an RCMP officer and kind of sought, um, you know,
00:52:45.540
saw these institutions fail in an epic way. I just, uh, I want to take us back to, to the convoy for a
00:52:52.100
minute and how there was this amazing grassroots movement, groundswell of support. A lot of veterans,
00:53:00.260
uh, came out as well. And there was, they kind of communed around the, uh, the war memorial,
00:53:06.020
taking care of it, making sure it was nice and clean the whole time. And of course,
00:53:09.860
at one point, the powers that be said, we're going to put fences around this, uh,
00:53:14.180
memorial because it's, you know, it's being, they made up some nonsense. Um, but of course the,
00:53:20.980
the veterans showed up, teamed up and, and very, uh, courteously and very, uh, orderly. They, uh,
00:53:27.300
you know, took the fence down and I thought that was a very kind of symbolic thing that happened
00:53:31.380
there. But, um, what these, uh, veterans, what these Canadian veterans were, were exercising,
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I think is, is the honor that they have for the sacrifices made from, you know, previous generations
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of Canadians and Canadian veterans who, who made these sorts of sacrifices. And that word honor
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really, uh, really sticks with me. Cause when I think about the, the police officers or the,
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you know, the, the members of these institutions that are doing it for the paycheck, they're doing
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it for their pension, you know, it's like, well, well, what about the honor that you have for
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the country that you live in and for this, you know, what it's supposed to mean to be Canadian,
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what it's supposed to mean to be part of this Canadian institution. And this is kind of a big
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quest, big, deep kind of question, but I guess, do you have any sort of, uh, you know, theories or,
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or kind of, uh, comments to share on what has happened to Canadians? Like, do they not honor
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their nation anymore? Um, what do you, what do you think is kind of like the, the, the spiritual
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problem that we're experiencing here? Or do you think it's a spiritual one? Um,
00:54:41.540
yeah. What, what are your, what are your thoughts on that? What do you think is kind of part of the
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issue here? Well, I'll just speak to my experience and perspective from the policing world. I think the
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vast majority of people who join a police service do so with that honor in mind. Now, what happens to
00:55:08.100
you over the course of years of a career is you get beat down over and over again, nonstop by, you know,
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some members of the public, a lot of the media, some of the government, like people who will capitalize
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on an, on a situation for political gain. And you eventually, my personal experience is that over
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time you get jaded and you start to question like, what am I even doing this for? And then, but you've
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made a life for yourself, a career for yourself. You're comfortable, you know, you have, you have
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job security, you have a decent paycheck and you, even if you're not, you know, some people are,
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maintain a passion for police work throughout their career. And there was, there was things I was
00:55:58.660
definitely really enjoyed about my job. And there was other things that were less exciting. But
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I've seen a lot of police officers get hammered by their own police force for doing exactly what they
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were trained to do, because there was a political gain to be made from it either by a politician or a
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senior officer who was looking to, you know, earn brownie points with the politicians or special
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interest groups. So, and I think that that might be somewhat true of some veterans too, if they become
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disillusioned with why they went and fought wars. But I, I, my personal experience from policing,
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and from what I saw other police officers endure was they join because they want to be a good cop.
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And even when they get beat down, they can still maintain a degree of that, but it does jade you
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over time. You start to wonder, like, I know I thought that many times, like, what am I even doing
00:57:05.620
this for? Like, am I even making a difference? Like, I'm just, I just feel like I'm running around,
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putting out, like, you know, figuratively putting out fires or putting a band-aid solution on things.
00:57:18.420
And like, the courts don't seem to care. A good percentage of the time, the victims don't seem to
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care. And everyone says, I'm the bad guy. Like, what, what am I doing in this profession?
00:57:31.220
Hmm. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. So to wrap it up, let's talk about some solutions. I
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think you really nailed it earlier when you said, you know, I'm going to work to become self-reliant
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for myself and my family, because I don't think any politician is really, I don't think it's their top
00:57:52.900
priority to really take care of me or take care of us. Outside of that, outside of your own kind of
00:57:57.700
personal efforts to be self-sufficient, are there any solutions that you see that are viable? Any
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organizations that you think are kind of forming that show some promise to kind of help get this
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country back on track? I know you mentioned the National Citizens Inquiry, but aside from that,
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what are you seeing for the future of Canada that is promising and inspiring?
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Well, I think there's a far greater percentage of the population that is engaged in what's happening
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on a political level and a societal level because of what we've seen these last few years,
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the infringements on rights and freedoms these last few years. Definitely. And I think the resurgence,
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or maybe not resurgence, but the surge in new independent media voices because everyone is so
00:58:54.180
tired of the propaganda machines of the corporate media, that's encouraging because it's just more and
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more avenues for less biased information, you know, unbiased information or more truthful information to
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get out to the public. Yeah. I think, you know, the NCI, I think people have been critical of it, asking,
00:59:16.900
like, you know, what power do they actually have? And, you know, we don't know what impact
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it will ultimately have. But at the very least, it's a, as it was explained to me by one of my favorite
00:59:32.020
witnesses on there so far, Rodney Palmer, like it is a, probably the single greatest catalog of evidence
00:59:39.700
of the harm that was done by this response, and the impact that it's had on Canadians. And so I'm
00:59:46.740
hopeful that maybe some, some politicians might actually take it seriously. But at the very least,
00:59:55.700
there is a whole catalog of testimony there that could potentially be used in legal proceedings,
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whether that's lawsuits, or maybe even potentially criminal charges in the future.
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I think we got the receipts, we got a stack of receipts that we're going to be cashing in,
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hopefully in the future, when the push comes to shove. It seems that things operate on a bit of
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a pendulum. And I think we've gone so far, we're, we're, we're at the breaking point of where people
01:00:26.100
have had enough. And there has to be a correction. Right? I think, you know, and what was a conspiracy
01:00:33.620
theory two years ago was openly being reported on even in mainstream media now, you know, the Great
01:00:38.340
Reset being the most recent example that I can think of. And it's like, more people are waking up,
01:00:45.940
more people are paying attention. It's just it's a gradual process. But I think one, I guess, kind of
01:00:54.820
solution that I'm trying to preach to people beyond like, first of all, take care of your own health,
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like physical, mental, spiritual, emotional health, because I know that has been a major challenge for
01:01:07.220
me. Like I let a lot of my healthy habits fall away over the last two years. And now I'm trying to
01:01:11.860
slowly kind of make myself healthy again. And the personal responsibility and independence, like I'm
01:01:21.860
trying my best to make myself as independent as possible from government and from banking,
01:01:26.740
and from the banking system. Because the government, you know, I've made that mistake by putting all my
01:01:33.780
eggs in a government job government career basket. And then I also have seen what it how easily the banks
01:01:40.980
will freeze your bank account at the request of the government even without any due process or
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criminal charges. And then a third, it's all about communication. You know, we all have to deal with
01:01:56.740
we're all trying to navigate like a sensor heavy environment. And so I encourage people to like,
01:02:03.140
as much as you can free speech platforms, right? I know that might be difficult for some with like,
01:02:08.340
you know, if their business is geared around YouTube or Instagram, but for me, it's like,
01:02:13.460
I'm trying my best to only support freedom oriented businesses. And that includes how I communicate
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with people. And then on a more micro level, mass communication for me, I don't think it's really
01:02:27.940
changed a whole lot from two years ago. You know, I think a lot of the people who follow me now were the
01:02:32.420
same people who followed me back then. Sorry, it's going to rain really heavy here and be loud.
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But I'm trying to focus more on the individual connections and conversations with people that
01:02:44.740
can't be censored by big tech and by government. So that involves being willing to push outside your
01:02:53.060
comfort zone and have a difficult conversation with people who, you know, maybe you had a relationship
01:03:00.100
with in the past, and you would like to repair it or retain it. You know, there's a lot of,
01:03:07.700
there's a lot of pretty well summarized information out there now that you could
01:03:13.380
bring to their attention and say, Hey, look, you know, who I am, you knew who I was before all this,
01:03:19.220
I didn't change. Well, I mean, I didn't, I didn't fall off the deep end here. Here's something I can
01:03:28.180
show you that is a good summary of why I did what I did. So I guess just focusing more at a local level.
01:03:37.460
Yeah, yeah. And try to rebuild that, that sense of belonging, that sense of community
01:03:43.300
that I feel was really under attack during, during lockdowns and everything. Yep. But Daniel,
01:03:50.340
thanks so much for being on the show. You can follow Daniel at Bulford Daniel on Twitter. Here's
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the Twitter here. Is there anything else that you wanted to plug or wanted to say before we get going?
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No, not really. That's, I'm pretty much an independent now. And that's pretty much the only
01:04:09.380
platform I really use that would be like a, a more mainstream platform. I've dabbled with
01:04:14.980
telegram and some others, but, uh, I'm trying to minimize my time on social media these days because
01:04:21.460
it's a time suck and it just takes up all of your time and energy and makes you angry about the world.
01:04:27.060
So I'm trying to find a better balance with that. That's, that's really good advice. And I, and I,
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I'm with you there. I'm with you there. I'm definitely focusing on the exercise and putting the phone
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down every now and then to, you know, to enjoy, uh, you know, not the chaos, I guess. But, um,
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thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for your service, of course. And, uh, most of all,
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thank you for setting, uh, setting in a positive example, um, you know, of a Canadian man who is
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doing the right thing, even if it's not comfortable, but, uh, thanks for being on the show.
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And for everyone watching, it is okay to demand higher standards. Thanks for watching guys.