Greg Wycliffe - March 17, 2023


Election Interference Whistle Blower Op-Ed sounds like Justin Trudeau


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The Globe and Mail published an article allegedly written by a whistleblower who claims to have uncovered evidence of Chinese interference in Canada s election. The piece was published just a few hours after it was leaked to the media by a whistle blower.

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00:00:00.000 What would it be like to be in a country as it transforms from a democratic one with
00:00:05.940 democratic elections into an authoritarian one?
00:00:08.980 Because we have this article that dropped today in the Globe and Mail, an op-ed that
00:00:12.820 was allegedly written by the whistleblower who revealed this Chinese interference into
00:00:18.620 Canada's elections.
00:00:20.200 I say in the title, like, was this written by Justin Trudeau?
00:00:23.360 Because if you read it, we're going to go over it line by line.
00:00:25.960 There's partisan elements that this whistleblower is talking about.
00:00:30.000 This whistleblower sounds like a politician and there's a whole bunch of double speak
00:00:35.400 from this politician and a lot of very political public relations type language that you would
00:00:42.000 expect from somebody in the Ottawa bubble, someone who is, you know, always politicking
00:00:46.580 and yeah, it's just, I'm not saying that this article isn't real and it wasn't written by
00:00:52.660 the whistleblower himself, but I'm just going to go over this because what's important is
00:00:59.600 a lot of people are going to read this op-ed and the message that it sends to canadians
00:01:04.440 is don't worry about it you know it this whistleblower is telling me how to feel
00:01:10.680 about the situation and it amounts to don't blame anybody don't get mad at the liberals don't get
00:01:17.000 mad at the conservatives don't get mad at china don't get mad at any bureaucracy okay hopefully
00:01:21.500 i don't get punished too badly that is essentially the message that this op-ed sends to readers and
00:01:28.560 in many ways, this is standard for what a lot of the Canadian news media does, is a lot of what
00:01:34.540 the Globe and Mail, CTV, Global News, CBC does, which is, oh, is there widespread corruption?
00:01:40.680 Is there another horrible, is there another horrible scandal that happened with our prime
00:01:46.120 minister in the highest levels of our government? Yeah, well, we're looking into it. Don't worry
00:01:50.780 about it. That's what we've been seeing for the past three years. That's what the news media
00:01:54.460 effectively does. Hey guys, we're holding them accountable. We're holding them accountable.
00:01:58.560 Don't worry about it. We got this. And then, and then nothing happens. And even with this
00:02:02.180 election interference, this op-ed effectively works the exact same way, but let's get into it
00:02:08.180 here. Okay. So why I blew the whistle on Chinese interference in Canada's elections. This was 0.91
00:02:13.500 published just two hours ago. We're going to first read this, a note from David Walmsley,
00:02:20.000 editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail. Revelations from the author of this opinion piece formed the
00:02:24.960 backbone of our news stories that there is foreign interference in our political system
00:02:29.360 at all levels of government and across Canada. Wow. The facts in those stories, which are just
00:02:36.300 part of our in-depth and years-long reporting on the issues, on the issue are uncontroverted,
00:02:42.900 which means like, you know, matter of fact, like this is a verified fact. So the Globe and Mail
00:02:47.620 has been reporting this for years long. And essentially, we've really only started to hear
00:02:52.320 about it this past fall if i'm not mistaken i guess there's been other instances of of there
00:02:57.460 being election interference but uh anyway it's kind of interesting that we're only really hearing
00:03:02.700 about this now uh more widespread when they've been doing it for years long there there's
00:03:08.280 interference at all levels of government across canada year-long reports but we're only hearing
00:03:13.740 about it now anyway however the individual faces possible prosecution for revealing classified
00:03:20.080 documents. I mean, it must be scary to be the whistleblower. Don't get me wrong. This is a rare
00:03:24.680 moment in which we have granted confidentiality to an opinion writer. We recognize conferring
00:03:29.520 confidentiality demands a great degree of trust on the part of the reader. We believe that
00:03:34.840 publishing this piece strikes a balance between providing readers with more insight into our work
00:03:40.520 and our responsibility to protect the individual's identity and the tradition of shielding
00:03:44.380 sources when it's in the public interest as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2010
00:03:49.160 ruling of Globe and Mail versus Canada.
00:03:51.240 What I find interesting about how they phrase this
00:03:53.100 is with more insight into our work,
00:03:56.520 I mean, publishing this piece,
00:03:58.340 it's just an op-ed from the whistleblower, right?
00:04:01.060 I mean, all you guys are doing
00:04:02.200 is just being a vehicle
00:04:03.280 for what this man or woman is saying.
00:04:05.400 Am I wrong?
00:04:06.540 So why are you saying it's your work?
00:04:08.380 It's not your work at all.
00:04:09.400 It's the whistleblower's work, is it not?
00:04:12.320 And also in the same breath,
00:04:13.640 they're talking about,
00:04:14.500 yeah, there's no way that we can really verify
00:04:17.120 Can I verify that this is real?
00:04:19.640 It's a great degree of trust on the part of the reader.
00:04:22.220 Yeah, okay.
00:04:23.900 Trust.
00:04:24.620 I trust you, Glove of Mail.
00:04:26.640 The whole country trusts you.
00:04:28.340 Don't worry about it.
00:04:29.920 Anyway, so that's a little disclaimer before the actual op-ed.
00:04:35.600 But so let's begin.
00:04:37.520 This is the whistleblower speaking, okay?
00:04:41.560 And again, like I've read over this already, of course,
00:04:44.420 and I highlighted a few bits.
00:04:45.560 i really have a hard time believing that this wasn't at least edited in some way if it is real
00:04:51.740 if it is from the whistleblower i have a very hard time believing that it wasn't edited in some way
00:04:55.920 in some some fashion um and you know to give you like a spoiler of what the conclusion is going to
00:05:02.620 be either they're both bad conclusions either one this is completely fabricated news propaganda
00:05:09.300 And once again, we already live in an authoritarian country, spoiler alert, or number two, this whistleblower is so severely indoctrinated and drank the Kool-Aid to the point where he is just like, or he or she is this demoralized person who, it's very sad if this is truly how the person feels, if this is how the whistleblower is speaking.
00:05:32.860 I guess the third option is this person is like, you know, they want to speak for themselves, but they can't.
00:05:38.540 And they're kind of just like, you know, it's like they're speaking like they have a gun to their back.
00:05:41.940 Anyway, let's continue.
00:05:44.920 When I first became aware of the significance of the threat posed by outside interference to our democratic institutions,
00:05:51.340 I worked, I worked, as have many unnamed and tireless colleagues, to equip our leaders with the knowledge and the tools needed to take action against it.
00:06:01.060 Great.
00:06:01.360 months passed and then years the threat grew in urgency serious action remained forthcoming
00:06:07.740 i endeavored alone and with others that's an interesting part so it wasn't just this
00:06:14.220 whistleblower apparently there were others who were trying to raise concerns about this threat
00:06:19.400 directly to those in a position to hold our top officials to account so it's not just this
00:06:25.100 whistleblower apparently it's him or him or her and others trying to hold the people in in charge
00:06:31.160 account. Regrettably, those individuals were unable to do so. That presents a whole bunch
00:06:39.400 of questions. But moving on, in the time that passed, another federal election had come and
00:06:46.140 gone. Oh, man. Another election interfered with and your higher ups did nothing about it. Let's
00:06:53.920 keep going. The threat of interference had grown. It had become increasingly clear that no serious
00:06:59.540 action was being considered. Worse still, evidence of senior public officials ignoring interference
00:07:05.580 was beginning to mount. No crap. You have multiple people apparently, you said, alone with others 0.99
00:07:12.840 to try and raise concerns about this. So there's public officials ignoring interference. This is
00:07:18.800 becoming an even bigger problem. Despite these concerns, the decision to discuss this threat
00:07:23.860 with Canadian journalists was not an easy one. In this line of work, the question of whether or not
00:07:28.560 to blow the whistle rarely arrives unaccompanied by other ones. So this does make sense as if this
00:07:36.140 person is, you know, privy to this information, it is very sensitive information. It makes sense
00:07:40.800 why you would not want to leak it. Anyway, they say, I asked myself, can I do this while mitigating
00:07:45.460 the risk to our country's sources and methods? Will this mean to end the end of my career?
00:07:49.940 Who will take care of my family if I go to prison? So this is obviously, well, let's just keep going.
00:07:57.940 Let's just keep going.
00:07:58.820 I do want to emphasize, though, that like, you know, they're emphasizing the risks of
00:08:02.280 the whistleblower.
00:08:03.400 So if somebody is also a bureaucrat who knows a bunch of dirt on the Canadian government
00:08:08.060 and they're reading this, this is just stoking the fear in them like, oh, man, yeah, that
00:08:13.160 is very risky.
00:08:14.160 I don't know if it would be worth it.
00:08:15.420 Is it worth it for this whistleblower?
00:08:16.900 Let's keep reading.
00:08:18.800 For me, the answers to these questions was found in weighing them against the public
00:08:22.840 interest.
00:08:23.400 I hold no personal complaint against our public leaders, against our national security community, or against the Liberal Party.
00:08:32.880 Really? Are you serious, whistleblower?
00:08:36.880 You hold no personal complaint against political leaders, our national security community, or against the Liberal Party.
00:08:46.200 You just finished saying that there's evidence of senior public officials ignoring interference was beginning to mount.
00:08:52.880 you're not gonna that's not something worthy of complaint why did you blow the whistle you blew
00:08:58.380 the whistle because i mean i guess it's not a complaint but you're on you're obviously see a
00:09:04.720 problem this is what i mean about the double speak guys this sounds exactly like a politician
00:09:10.200 or a public relations piece it does not sound like some you know op-ed from a whistleblower in my
00:09:16.200 opinion i hold no personal complaint against our political leaders against our national security
00:09:21.240 community or against the liberal party and read this indeed and this is in red indeed i have voted
00:09:26.620 for the latter in past elections and hope to be able to do so again one day this sounds like a
00:09:33.100 struggle session you guys like if if someone got caught being like a whistleblower for communist
00:09:39.520 china they would make them write a letter pretty well close to this i have even though the the
00:09:46.320 Chinese beat me up and, you know, Xi Jinping took away my family and scalded me and my life is
00:09:53.100 ruined forever. I hold no personal complaint against our political leaders, against our 0.63
00:09:59.120 national security community, or against the liberal party. Say it like you mean it. Indeed,
00:10:05.300 I have voted for the latter in past elections and hope to be able to do so again one day.
00:10:10.140 i love the liberal party so much am i crazy this this this seems so this this whole piece seems so
00:10:18.580 creepy anyway let's continue neither was my decision taken out of any special animus toward
00:10:24.140 the government of the people's republic of china despite its driving involvement in these affairs
00:10:28.920 and of course china number one even though china interfering with our elections even though our
00:10:36.360 higher ups aren't doing anything about this i have nothing against china whatsoever you guys
00:10:40.500 nothing against china at all i love china okay and to be fair maybe this is you know talk to
00:10:47.720 viva fry about this maybe there's like some legal reasonings that he has to disclose this i don't
00:10:52.440 know why bowing to uh the people's republic of china is anything other than like worried you're
00:10:58.700 going to be extradited to china which is like a whole other slew of problems if a security
00:11:03.960 personnel in the Canadian bureaucracy is worried about, you know, China. He's worried about China
00:11:10.680 disciplining him. Is that why he's saying this? So Xi Jinping, the leader of another country,
00:11:16.760 might not discipline him? Like this whole piece gives me the creeps. And that's why I wanted to
00:11:22.780 talk about it today. But let's keep going. Instead, I hoped that providing the public
00:11:27.660 with information, I believe to be in the interest of all Canadians. We as a country would begin
00:11:34.560 a much deeper conversation about what it is that we expect of our government.
00:11:41.080 He's starting to sound exactly like Trudeau. Instead, I hoped that by providing the public
00:11:47.360 with information, I believe to be in the interest of all Canadians. We as a country would begin a
00:11:53.980 much deeper conversation about what it is that we expect of our government. Why is the whistleblower
00:12:02.140 taking on this responsibility of being like a leader like Justin Trudeau? Like this is exactly
00:12:09.680 like a Justin Trudeau soundbite pretty much. And there's a lot more examples of this. Let's keep
00:12:13.880 it rolling. I hope that we could launch a conversation about how to improve transparency,
00:12:19.220 how to enhance our accountability, how to protect all members of our society against external
00:12:25.520 threats, and ultimately about how we continue to pursue a system of governance that best serves
00:12:31.200 all of its citizens. This is political speech. This sounds exactly like a political speech.
00:12:38.560 Why is a whistleblower giving a political speech in an op-ed? Why is a whistleblower talking about
00:12:43.580 unity in an op-ed? I do not understand. While I still believe that conversation to be necessary
00:12:49.100 it has unfortunately become marked by ugliness and division what is he talking about what are
00:12:58.700 you talking about whistleblower what are you talking about well i still believe that conversation
00:13:04.360 to be necessary or ah it has unfortunately become marked by ugliness and division well
00:13:09.680 why wouldn't it like he's talking about his higher-ups not like being regrettably they have
00:13:17.800 done nothing about us ringing the alarm bells about election interference unfortunately it's
00:13:23.020 become marked by ugliness and division why is there all this division why is there all this
00:13:27.460 division seriously because there's election interference like this is exactly once again
00:13:34.240 this i don't have to explain it i'm beating a dead horse at this point this is this is political
00:13:39.260 talk this is political speech why the heck is this whistleblower interested in talking about this
00:13:44.380 This sounds exactly like it's from the, uh, Justin Trudeau communications team.
00:13:50.620 So, and let me be clear, let me be clear as troubling as the revelations have as troubling
00:14:01.560 as the revelations we have seen are, or I do not believe that foreign interference dictated
00:14:07.380 the present composition of our federal government.
00:14:10.300 don't worry guys it didn't affect it didn't it didn't actually affect the elections and this
00:14:15.880 is coming from the whistleblower himself you see how this works how this op-ed this exclusive op-ed
00:14:22.400 from the whistleblower works as pr for this corrupt regime do you see like hypothetically
00:14:28.680 if this was you know completely made up op-ed and they just want to kind of make everything seem
00:14:33.500 okay hey guys no one to blame don't worry it didn't affect the elections even the whistle even
00:14:39.180 even the anonymous whistleblower said that whose confidentiality we're never going to know
00:14:43.840 apparently let's keep going nor do i believe that any of our elected leaders is a traitor to our
00:14:51.440 country great great checking all the boxes so of course of course no one's a traitor to the country
00:14:59.200 right so so so whistleblower no one's a traitor to the country but you know you're very disappointed
00:15:05.180 with your higher ups and the people you working with, you know, not doing anything about election
00:15:10.180 interference. You know, like I said, either this is a like total propaganda fluff piece to try and
00:15:16.340 calm everybody down about election interference or this poor person is like horribly, horribly
00:15:24.020 demoralized and indoctrinated and have drank in this like authoritarian Kool-Aid. Or again,
00:15:29.640 maybe they have like, you know, a gun to their back proverbially to just like you say this,
00:15:33.580 Say that you don't believe anyone is a traitor in your country.
00:15:37.620 Write that down.
00:15:38.280 We got to publish that.
00:15:39.660 Like, again, it's like a struggle session.
00:15:41.020 You have to say, I love Xi Jinping.
00:15:42.780 No one here is a traitor.
00:15:44.420 You're supposed to say Trudeau.
00:15:45.360 I mean, I love Trudeau.
00:15:47.160 Nonetheless, let's keep going.
00:15:49.300 Nonetheless, the growing impact of foreign interference on our ability to enjoy a free and fair political process is undeniable.
00:15:57.920 To enjoy a free and fair political process, it's not something to enjoy.
00:16:02.820 It's something that's fundamental to the whole significance of this democratic country called
00:16:08.560 Canada. I want to enjoy a democracy. No, I want that fundamentally. That's kind of like what
00:16:14.620 comes with Canada in and of itself. Like that's supposed to be fundamental to what it is we're
00:16:21.040 doing here in this country. Will these revelations give some Canadians cause to question the integrity
00:16:28.040 of our democratic institutions and processes?
00:16:31.820 Yes, they, yes, they well might. 0.98
00:16:37.360 No crap, man. 0.99
00:16:39.400 No crap, Mr. or Mrs. Whistleblower. 0.99
00:16:42.200 And like the whole answer to this question is obvious. 0.99
00:16:46.120 Why I blew the whistle on Chinese interference 0.97
00:16:48.120 in Canada's elections?
00:16:49.180 Because it's the right thing to do.
00:16:51.580 You don't even need to write a whole article about this.
00:16:54.060 It's obviously the right thing to do.
00:16:55.860 Why I blew the whistle on Chinese interference 0.97
00:16:57.800 in Canada's elections because you're a secure you're a national security official and that's
00:17:02.900 your job and it's the right thing to do and as you mentioned I swore an oath you swore an oath
00:17:08.640 not to party or to person but to my country to its democratic institutions and to my fellow
00:17:14.080 Canadians right I hold no personal complaint against anyone what about all the people that
00:17:20.980 didn't uphold the oath that you did you're not at all resentful you're not at all worried oh well
00:17:25.920 I will vote for the Liberal Party again.
00:17:28.520 Cool, bro. 1.00
00:17:29.580 So yeah, again, a stupid question. 1.00
00:17:31.640 Will these revelations give some Canadians cause 1.00
00:17:33.860 to question the integrity of our democratic institutions
00:17:36.260 and processes?
00:17:37.760 Yes, obviously.
00:17:39.300 Obviously, that's kind of why you did it, whistleblower.
00:17:42.460 Is that not why you did it?
00:17:44.320 So people can start questioning this?
00:17:46.660 But preserving the alternative
00:17:48.260 that Canadians remain unaware of the...
00:17:50.760 But preserving the alternative
00:17:54.500 that Canadians remain unaware of the risks to those institutions
00:17:58.020 would be to deprive them of the ability to participate
00:18:01.360 in our democratic processes with meaningful agency.
00:18:05.340 Yeah, no crap, because they're completely undermined, 0.75
00:18:08.440 because they're compromised, of course. 0.86
00:18:11.460 Like, why does he even have to explain all of this?
00:18:14.620 He or she have to explain all of this.
00:18:16.480 Maybe it's a they-them. 1.00
00:18:17.720 It kind of sounds like a they-them at this point. 0.98
00:18:20.100 Anyway, moreover, it would be to brush aside
00:18:24.200 the experiences of many Canadian members of diaspora communities who have long been unable
00:18:30.800 to express their political voices freely and unfettered by the threat of foreign intervention
00:18:37.220 or reprisal. It would be to brush aside the experiences of many Canadian members of diaspora
00:18:43.980 communities who have long been unable to express their political voices freely and unfettered by
00:18:48.460 the threat of foreign intervention or reprisal. So I think this is interesting because later he
00:18:53.820 basically says oh yeah nor this is a this is not a china issue this is not a china issue then what
00:18:59.920 the heck are you referring to here what are you referring to here in uh in this quote here you're
00:19:05.940 you're worried about people not being able to express their political voices freely and unfettered
00:19:10.280 by the threat of foreign intervention or reprisal it's not it's not china though no not i'm out of
00:19:15.560 china no no no um again this is filled with double speak i feel really bad for the maybe potentially 0.51
00:19:23.420 millions of Canadians who will just kind of read this uncritically and think, wow, what a brave
00:19:28.600 whistleblower. He sounds exactly like Justin Trudeau and every other left center left pundit
00:19:35.320 that you read on every single publication in this country. Let's keep going. Indeed,
00:19:43.840 I urge you to listen to those courageous Canadians who are willing and able to share
00:19:47.740 their experiences in this regard. With that said, we all must recognize that this is a, this is not
00:19:54.560 a partisan issue. This is not a partisan issue. It's interesting that he said this is not a
00:20:00.120 partisan issue. And he earlier in the article says, um, by the way, I would really like to
00:20:06.560 vote for the liberal party again. I hold no personal complaint against anyone, the liberal
00:20:12.680 party. Indeed, I have voted for the latter in past elections, and I hope to be able to do so
00:20:17.320 again one day. It's not a partisan issue, though, guys. Nor is it a China issue. Your fellow
00:20:26.240 progressive Canadians, your fellow conservative Canadians, and your fellow Chinese Canadians
00:20:32.460 are all just that, Canadians.
00:20:35.360 did Trudeau write this did Trudeau's team write this it sounds exactly the same
00:20:47.560 in having this conversation we must resist the reflex to reduce the challenge that faces us to
00:20:54.000 one of us versus them to one of us versus them this sounds like it was written by a Chinese PR 0.51
00:21:01.880 our agency. This is like, this is written by the same people who say, guys, don't say Chinese,
00:21:08.060 say Beijing. Okay. Don't say, don't say a Chinese virus, say COVID-19 guys. This is not,
00:21:15.500 we must resist the reflex to reduce the challenge that faces us to one of us versus them.
00:21:22.240 Like, like so much of this puff piece, sorry, opinion piece really feels like
00:21:28.600 like propaganda from communist china like quite frankly and let's continue we must recognize 0.52
00:21:37.140 that protecting our civic values should not need not and cannot come at the cost of abandoning our
00:21:43.960 commitment to diversity and multiculturalism again why the hell is this the priority of the
00:21:53.620 whistleblower hey you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna write this inspiring piece for the globe
00:21:58.480 and mail about about unity of the country if you're blowing the whistle you're probably more
00:22:04.040 concerned about the integrity of elections oh man we must come together as a national community and
00:22:13.080 ask ourselves how can we do better how can we do better a national community what about the
00:22:19.860 bureaucrats what about your bosses who do not want to hold themselves accountable or their higher
00:22:26.280 up some cannibal what about the officials that ignored the evidence of election interference
00:22:34.480 yeah we need to come together a community and see how we can do better what the hell is this
00:22:40.480 this is this is exactly what I said hey there's no one hey election interference there's no one
00:22:45.960 to blame here everyone settle down just sit back down okay here's a lollipop this isn't an us
00:22:52.640 versus them thing it's just a foreign country trying to interfere with our elections guys 0.99
00:22:57.100 there's no one to blame here i yeah hey these people ignored my warning signs we're all we're
00:23:02.740 all just carrying on like there's not uh widespread corruption but but but you can do better we we can
00:23:08.400 do better as a community give me a break on the question of what happens next for me i have little
00:23:17.660 to say, but this, if, and when the time comes, I will take my lumps for my part in this. So again,
00:23:25.580 what's the conclusion of this article? I will face consequences. I will face consequences
00:23:31.320 as the whistleblower. I will face consequences, not your higher ups, not the people that have
00:23:37.260 ignored this for years, not the, not, not the corruption, not these different people. No, no,
00:23:42.180 no. I will take my lumps. Again, if you're a potential whistleblower reading this,
00:23:46.560 you're you're feeling guilt you're feeling oh wow he's he's he's the one facing the consequences
00:23:51.980 for being a whistleblower i will do so without resentment or regret knowing that while what i
00:23:57.660 have done may be unlawful i cannot say that it is wrong yeah of course not you you didn't do
00:24:06.800 anything wrong you you are that's why you're a whistleblower you're doing the right thing
00:24:12.100 there is i mean and this is a problem by the way well what i have done may be unlawful i think we
00:24:19.320 got to change that uh i haven't done the research on this but i'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch
00:24:23.560 more um a whole bunch more laws in the states when it comes to this sort of thing when it comes to uh
00:24:30.260 you know compromised elections etc but uh we're almost through here there's one
00:24:36.120 a few more paragraphs i say this because i was raised to believe that integrity is the act of
00:24:42.780 weighing your actions against your principles not against what is convenient or expedient
00:24:48.180 i agree but again all of this shouldn't you be more upset at your higher ups once again if you
00:24:56.380 have all this integrity you know like this person literally casts no shame no judgment no blame
00:25:04.900 no sort of urgency to the people who have ignored this election interference to the people who were
00:25:12.720 alongside him and haven't blown the whistle you know like he says he's kind of this person who
00:25:18.680 hey i'm serving my country i'm serving my country but by the way you know i am the only one to blame
00:25:24.740 here i'm the only one who will face consequences here and it gets worse and here my principles
00:25:30.300 remain firmly tied to those words in my oath i will serve my country i will serve the democratic
00:25:35.080 institutions on which it is founded and i will most certainly serve my fellow canadians what
00:25:39.320 about your bosses what about the other people why not add a part in this op-ed about why aren't these
00:25:45.320 people swear like upholding their oath you're not even going to add one line in this op-ed
00:25:52.040 on your opinion as the whistleblower you're not going to add one line one little line
00:25:57.460 shaming your bosses for not listening to you shaming your higher-ups shaming people for
00:26:03.180 ignoring election interference pretty interesting whistleblower in my opinion i'm not the first in
00:26:10.900 our public service to have grappled with such an inevitable ethical dilemma in recent years
00:26:16.860 not so long ago our former justice minister jody wilson-raybold faced one that was even more acute
00:26:21.720 given what she stood to lose I worry however that we may be running short on individuals
00:26:29.500 yeah this part's weird I worry however that we may be running short on individuals
00:26:34.880 willing and able to risk the consequences of standing by their principles
00:26:39.160 I worry that we may be running short on individuals willing and able to risk the
00:26:46.520 consequences of standing up by their principles. I totally agree with this. And again, if you're
00:26:52.740 a potential whistleblower, this isn't really like a battle cry. This isn't really like an
00:26:57.620 encouraging thing. It's more of like a, I don't think there's many people out there who are going
00:27:02.100 to try to fight this authoritarianism out there. I don't think there's many of us left. You know,
00:27:06.980 I, you know, I might go to jail. I might lose my kids. I don't know what's going on here. You know,
00:27:11.660 like, I'm going to take my lumps. You know, why not a call to action for more whistleblowers?
00:27:18.620 Why not a call to upholding your, upholding your oath to have some more dignity to encourage
00:27:25.420 other bureaucrats or people who might be caught up in other corrupt things going on in our massive
00:27:31.120 government, encouraging them to speak out. No, none of that from this whistleblower. It's just
00:27:35.320 like, I'm worried we're running short on individuals willing and able to risk the
00:27:39.300 consequences of standing by their principles yeah you know who's really happy about that
00:27:43.580 communist china is pumped pumped about this they are pumped that we're running short on individuals 0.61
00:27:49.200 and just by speaking it into existence that's what people will think about when they read it
00:27:52.920 and again this whole ending is like double speak so to my fellow canadians if you can
00:27:58.060 please work together to ensure that we are among the last public servants that will ever feel
00:28:05.340 compelled to take that risk? I had to read this over a few times because it's like, what message
00:28:12.420 is this sending? So to my fellow Canadians, if you can, please work together to ensure that we
00:28:19.100 are among the last public servants that will ever feel compelled to take that risk. Isn't it the
00:28:26.280 opposite? Shouldn't the message be the exact opposite? Hey guys, you should blow the whistle
00:28:31.960 like me. If there's corruption going on, you should blow the whip whistle like me. I, we are
00:28:37.460 among the last, let's hope we're among the last public servants. What do you mean? So when we
00:28:42.260 transition into some Trudeau, uh, you utopia where authoritarianism exists, I will be the last one to
00:28:50.080 speak out before what getting thrown into the gulag and that stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
00:28:54.420 whistleblowers don't happen anymore 1.00
00:28:56.600 that that's the article that's the article personally I it really scares the crap out 0.81
00:29:04.600 of me you know why is a whistleblower telling me how to feel about the information that
00:29:10.620 he that he or she has exposed you know is isn't that up to the public isn't the whole
00:29:15.720 point to to blow the whistle and then the public decides what to do with it why is the
00:29:20.980 whistleblower telling me how to feel like imagine the the twitter files or like the pfizer files or
00:29:27.860 all the things that have come out during covid all this stuff the whistleblowers that have come out
00:29:31.220 imagine if they too were there saying like hey this is how you should feel about this no they
00:29:36.360 just expose the information and then the public the public decides and the public should be
00:29:41.840 outraged but again this this public relations piece works as a hey public this is hey hey this
00:29:49.480 is how you should feel about it guys this is this is this calm down this is this is how you should
00:29:53.980 feel about it everyone just relax okay this whistleblower is saying i deserve punishment
00:30:00.760 yes i'm getting my lumps i was unlawful about this but i will vote for the liberal party again
00:30:06.500 though sir yes xi jinping sir this this whole article is such a mess um you know he's made this
00:30:12.700 election interference he's exposed this election interference he's not blaming the bureaucrats or
00:30:18.480 the higher ups. He's not blaming the liberal party members. He's not blaming the media who's
00:30:22.440 apparently been reporting on this for years. And of course he hasn't talked about the communist
00:30:26.620 Chinese. It's not their problem. This isn't about the election interference undermining the integrity
00:30:30.520 of our democracy. It's about my guilt as the whistleblower. It's about me daring to blow the
00:30:36.640 whistle and the consequences that I will face. He sounds weak. He sounds, he or she sounds weak,
00:30:43.320 unpatriotic yes i stood by my oath but you're not going to call to your co-workers to stand by their
00:30:49.120 oath either you're just going to be sad and face the consequences this article reads like a struggle
00:30:54.460 session maybe i'll jump into chat here and see see what's going on anybody else saying anything
00:30:59.920 interesting we have been screwed for three years time to enjoy living according to our values and
00:31:04.400 just demand accountability of corrupted public servants yes yes maria yes we have been screwed 0.93
00:31:10.160 over for three years. And that's actually a great point. Over the course of COVID, there has been a
00:31:15.420 slow sort of acceptance of corruption, of incompetence, of lies from the most powerful
00:31:24.020 institutions in our country. You know, over the past three years, there's been a slow but sure
00:31:28.960 kind of like decline in expectations, a decline in standards. Okay, yes, our officials who told
00:31:39.620 us to lock ourselves in our homes you know they were wrong okay they told us information that was
00:31:44.700 bad they did all these things that ruined our lives and maybe it wasn't the best thing if you
00:31:49.120 actually look into the details but you know what they were doing their best and they have actually
00:31:54.380 groomed and conditioned canadians into just accepting this incompetence accepting this
00:32:00.060 corruption in some cases i mean trudeau is obviously a great example he he's the scandal
00:32:04.980 king. He's the scandal king, but he's yet somehow seen as this, you know, as this patriarch of the
00:32:12.020 country because of his team, because of the team around him, because of his communications team
00:32:17.080 that writes, that writes PR pieces like this because of his campaign team who makes amazing
00:32:22.220 propaganda and because of his much larger, much more pervasive campaign team, which is the Canadian
00:32:29.340 news media which he bought out in 2018 so that's where we're at in this country uh i like to
00:32:36.020 document when things are like especially slipping like another step lower into authoritarianism or
00:32:42.000 totalitarianism and this piece i believe is one because it's it's it's taking the whistleblower
00:32:47.980 and it's saying hey yeah is our our elections compromised yeah maybe but guess what you
00:32:56.000 shouldn't blame anybody and i'm the one who's going to face the consequences for it we need to 0.94
00:33:01.500 see through this nonsense because the canadian news sucks and i'm so tired i've seen globe and 0.97
00:33:08.060 mail articles op-eds come out like this and everybody is circle jerking on twitter saying 0.98
00:33:13.020 wow wow look at our look at our news journalism institution it's so good it's so good look look
00:33:19.300 at this these exposés and it's all it's all just a dog and pony show it's all just a show it's all
00:33:24.780 just a show. Um, I do want to do another shout outs to veterans for freedom. I got the merch on
00:33:31.080 it's the best. Make sure you check them out. Veterans for freedom. Uh, you can check them
00:33:36.860 out here. Veteransforfreedom.ca. But aside from that guys, that's the stream. I just wanted to
00:33:41.300 come on here quick and explain that article to you. Um, yeah, thank you so much for watching.
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