Juno News - Canada needs to do THIS to avoid Trump’s tariffs

00:00:00.000 Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico,

00:00:06.900 unless these countries get their borders and their drugs under control.

00:00:11.940 Now, some say that Donald Trump is breaking the terms of his trade agreement with Canada

00:00:16.820 and that his promise will put the Canadian economy on its knees.

00:00:21.780 While others say that Donald Trump might finally be the man

00:00:25.000 to get Justin Trudeau to take immigration seriously.

00:00:28.220 Joining me to discuss is Toronto Sun colonist Brian Lilly.

00:00:33.460 And later, we'll have a story on why the Canadian Navy is doing away with its 265-year-old marching song.

00:00:41.140 I'm Rachel Parker, and you're watching The Rachel Parker Show.

00:00:58.220 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to The Rachel Parker Show.

00:01:03.800 We have so much to cover today.

00:01:05.900 Big news dropping yesterday with Donald Trump announcing that he would be imposing this 25% tariff

00:01:11.640 unless Canada and Mexico is able to stop the flow of people and of drugs over the border into the U.S.

00:01:18.080 Joining me today to discuss is Brian Lilly from the Toronto Sun.

00:01:21.880 Brian, I want to start by asking you right off the hop, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev spoke a few minutes ago.

00:01:27.260 He said this was unjustified, but he also said that this would cripple the Canadian economy.

00:01:31.900 What would the actual impact of this tariff be if it went through on the Canadian economy?

00:01:36.400 Recession. Deep recession. Depression-like recession. It would be—so when Trump was talking during the campaign

00:01:46.500 about a 10% tariff across the board, there was an analysis done by TD Economics, one of Canada's biggest banks.

00:01:54.600 They know the economy pretty well. Don't always get it right, but they're pretty good.

00:01:58.220 And they said, oh, 10% tariff, that would take about 2.4 points off of our GDP, which would put us into a recession, just that.

00:02:07.920 This is a 25% tariff. This is two and a half times that. So it would be crippling.

00:02:13.700 I'll give you one quick example that relates to where you're sitting in Alberta, where the oil industry is massive

00:02:20.580 and not hated like it is in Montreal and downtown Toronto.

00:02:23.980 About 18.4 million barrels a day of oil are exported from Canada to the United States.

00:02:33.000 Works out to just over a billion dollars a year. A 25% tariff would add 26—or sorry, not a billion dollars a year,

00:02:40.840 a billion dollars a day of oil. 25% tariff would add more than $26 million to those daily shipments.

00:02:50.940 Now, Western Canadian Select, which is the main source of oil that heads south, that trades at a discount

00:02:59.960 to West Texas Intermediary, which is the American benchmark. And that normally works in Canada's

00:03:06.980 favor to a degree. We get less money, but it makes the oil more attractive. It's an 18% discount right

00:03:12.260 now, based on the spot price. A 25% tariff would make it more expensive than West Texas Intermediate.

00:03:19.780 That's devastating for the Canadian economy. The oil would still flow. The Americans need it. Maybe

00:03:26.580 less of it would flow, but it would also be, you know, because they'd have a reason to look somewhere

00:03:32.500 else and say, okay, well, Canadian oil just got really expensive. Do we turn to Saudi Arabian? Do we

00:03:37.280 turn to Venezuelan? What do we turn to? Uh, so that's just on the oil side here in Ontario. Major

00:03:43.040 industry is the automotive sector. Uh, parts can cross the border eight times before a finished car

00:03:49.200 is made. You know, all of a sudden, every time it crosses, that makes it more expensive. That would

00:03:56.240 be a big sucking sound of jobs south of the border. But, you know, Poliev is right. These are unjustified,

00:04:05.520 but the Americans have legitimate concerns. I agree with, uh, premier Daniel Smith.

00:04:09.280 There are legitimate concerns. Can we address them? Absolutely. And I've written a column at

00:04:13.920 torontosun.com. You can find it on my socials. If we handle this right, we can avoid the tariffs.

00:04:20.800 We do not have to have the tariffs on us. The Americans have some very legitimate, but easily 0.99

00:04:26.560 solvable problems with our border. And I can explain all the numbers to, if you want. And if we act

00:04:32.720 properly, then we can fix them. But if we just say, oh, the border's not a problem. Um, Mexico's the

00:04:38.720 real problem. Then we're going to get hit. Sure. And I did want to ask you about that. As I said, 0.99

00:04:44.000 Pierre Poliev said this was unjustified. A lot of people are saying this doesn't really seem fair

00:04:48.080 when we talk about the flow of migrants or illegals from Canada into the U S because the number of

00:04:53.920 illegals crossing at our border versus at the Mexico border is just a tiny, tiny fraction.

00:04:59.360 So why don't you break down those numbers for us?

00:05:01.040 Yeah. Uh, we've had an 82% increase over the last two years. This is why the Americans are upset. Uh,

00:05:10.000 we've gone from just over a hundred thousand to 198,000 in the most recent fiscal year in the section

00:05:17.280 that runs from about the area of Kingston, Ontario and heads east through the, uh, across the Ontario,

00:05:24.320 New York border takes in the thousand islands area, um, goes across the Quebec, New York border,

00:05:29.360 the Quebec, Vermont border. It's called the Swanton sector. They captured 20, uh, just shy of 20,000 people.

00:05:36.720 These are folks often walking through the woods from Quebec or island hopping at the thousand

00:05:42.880 islands to get into the United States. That's more than they had in the previous 17 years.

00:05:49.120 That's, that's a major issue. And that's being noticed. The new borders are for the Americans 0.59

00:05:54.800 that Trump announced this, this guy's named Tom Holman comes from a little town in western New York,

00:06:00.160 just south of Kingston, Ontario called West Carthage. Guess what? He knows all about the border.

00:06:05.680 And he knows the stats. So you're not going to pull a fast one on them and say, oh, we're not the

00:06:10.080 problem. Tom Holman will sit there and tell you these stats. He'll also tell you that more than

00:06:15.600 double the number of people on terror watch lists are caught trying to enter the United States from

00:06:21.600 Canada as compared to Mexico. So we are a problem. Are we as big as Mexico? No. I mentioned that just over

00:06:29.360 198,000 people in the last fiscal year, Mexico was 2.1 million. We're about 9% of the problem,

00:06:38.720 but if you're 9% of a big problem, you're still a problem. On the drug side, Trump specifically

00:06:45.920 mentioned fentanyl. The fentanyl is almost entirely coming into the United States from Mexico or directly

00:06:53.520 from China. We exported a little bit of it, but there are other drugs. You can point to large

00:06:59.840 shipments of marijuana, large shipments of cocaine. We're the biggest supplier of this drug called cat.

00:07:06.240 Now this is considered a schedule one narcotic in the United States, and we don't even treat it as a

00:07:11.360 drug in Canada. We let people go who are smuggling it into the country. If this is an irritant to the

00:07:19.360 Americans, then I'd suggest that we look at that and say, okay, can we fix it? Um, on the drug issue,

00:07:26.560 you know, there was a story that broke a little while ago. Fentanyl super lab in British Columbia

00:07:32.800 was busted. That was a beginning of November. Absolutely. The Trump team saw that, and that is

00:07:40.160 going to be part of their concerns. What we need to do on the drug side is show them, look, we mostly

00:07:47.440 work together and check out this bust from mid October when you may remember the story. It made

00:07:54.720 news because it was a former Canadian Olympian, a snowboarder from about 20 odd years ago, who was

00:08:00.960 central to this drug bust. And it was a transnational bust that went from Mexico through into California,

00:08:08.080 into the American Midwest, into Alberta and into Ontario. So if, if you're going to be able to

00:08:13.840 convince them, like, look on drugs, we're still working together. Is there more you want us to do?

00:08:18.400 Then we can avoid the tariffs on the drug side. On the immigration side, we've got to fix our own

00:08:24.560 immigration system. Of those 198,000, 46,000 last year were Indian nationals, 36,000 of which were single

00:08:34.480 unattached adults, mostly young men. So you're allowing people to come into Canada on visitors visas or

00:08:40.480 more, more likely temporary foreign workers visas and international student visas. And then they get

00:08:47.200 here and they go to the United States and they declare asylum. Well, Tom Holman has said this is a

00:08:53.840 people using Canada as a backdoor entry into the United States and he won't let it happen. So we can't bury

00:09:00.160 our heads in the sand here. We need to do it right. Can the Trudeau government do that? I'm not too sure.

00:09:05.920 If the Trudeau government did decide to do it, if they found that political will to finally take

00:09:12.480 immigration and the border seriously, what would that look like? Because they only have until January

00:09:17.520 20th to convince Donald Trump and his administration that they are going to be addressing these problems

00:09:22.480 before those tariffs would come into effect. Well, they'd have to basically stop the major inflow.

00:09:30.080 And I know that there are colleges, primarily colleges, some universities that have abused the

00:09:35.680 international student program. That's a small part of it, but address it. Address the diploma mill 1.00

00:09:44.320 colleges. There's one college here in Ontario. It's over 70% international students. So that's not

00:09:50.720 most of the colleges, be it in Alberta or Ontario or Saskatchewan. You know, everyone's got a little bit of

00:09:57.040 international students. And part of the reason that schools do this is they pay higher tuition. So they

00:10:01.920 make more money off them, but get that back under control. You know, we were printing out, somebody

00:10:08.640 ran the numbers and it was like 77 permits an hour last year to allow people into the country. But the

00:10:18.400 big issue is the temporary foreign workers issue. We botched it completely. And so whether you're in Red

00:10:26.320 Deer or Moose Jaw or Timmons, there's a flood of international temporary foreign workers all over 1.00

00:10:33.760 the place, some of whom then turn around, they're only supposed to be here for a year or two. And

00:10:38.160 then they turn it around, they declare asylum here, or they go to the States and they declare asylum

00:10:42.560 there. Buns up both of our refugee systems. It causes problems. It's costing billions of dollars a year. 1.00

00:10:49.280 We need to get a hold of that. We need to get a hold of our refugee system as well and actually bring

00:10:57.120 back order. You know, we, we had high on immigration under the Harper conservatives, and there was still

00:11:03.520 a consensus that, okay, numbers are high, but it's working out. Even Justin Trudeau has said, we're bringing

00:11:09.680 in people faster than we can absorb them. He said that last April, the government knew six months prior to

00:11:15.200 that, that immigration was an issue and didn't do anything about it. They've got two months to show

00:11:20.000 that they're getting things under control, or I believe that Trump will follow through on this

00:11:25.040 threat and that will be devastating for the Canadian economy. Expect the Canadian dollar to drop, expect

00:11:31.120 interest rates to go back up. All of us will have lower purchasing power. We will have fewer jobs. It will be

00:11:38.080 devastating. You've talked about Canada needing to get a hold on the flow of people coming into the

00:11:44.960 country, but what about actually looking at the border? Is there a need to hire more border agents? Is there

00:11:50.960 a need to put more cameras out there, more technology to actually track the flow of people crossing the

00:11:55.600 border? Is that something that the government should be looking at doing? Absolutely. We need more CBSA

00:12:01.120 officers. And I was saying that before I realized how big the numbers were. Until recently, I was still of the

00:12:07.360 mindset that there were more people coming north than going south because of Roxham Road, which,

00:12:12.160 by the way, tapped out at about 39,000 people a year, and we're sending them 198,000. Big problem.

00:12:19.200 So you need more CBSA officers, both for border patrol. And so if the Americans say, you know what,

00:12:26.560 we need people patrolling along the St. Lawrence River by the Thousand Islands, well, then we better match

00:12:33.520 them. If they say that we need more cameras, more technology at remote parts, we better match them.

00:12:40.400 But we also, you know, we've long needed more border officers to stop the flow of illegal guns coming

00:12:45.440 into Canada from the United States. And the Trudeau government hasn't been willing to do that. They've

00:12:50.720 wanted to put money into so-called gun buyback programs, and they've wanted to ban sports target

00:12:57.760 rifles and hunting shotguns and rifles, not the guns that are actually the problem on the street. So

00:13:05.520 CBSA has long called for more officers. Premier Doug Ford, I was at his news conference earlier today,

00:13:12.160 he said, we need more CBSA officers. And by the way, Ford has organized for a meeting,

00:13:19.120 the first minister's meeting. He's counsel to the Federation right now. And he got all the premiers on

00:13:25.280 the phone yesterday, they called for a meeting with the prime minister, and that's going to happen

00:13:28.880 Wednesday at 5pm.

00:13:32.080 Yesterday on CBC News, Perrin Beattie, the former Canadian Chamber of Converse CEO said,

00:13:37.920 basically, the worst thing that can happen now is for Canadian politicians like Justin Trudeau,

00:13:42.800 like Pierre Polyev to essentially thump their tress and use this to try to gain an advantage in the

00:13:48.960 upcoming Canadian federal election. He said, that's the absolute worst thing that can happen,

00:13:53.040 and the Americans will notice. What are the chances that our politicians can resist that temptation?

00:14:00.240 Well, I think they're going to be asked about the chest thumping thing constantly, because most of

00:14:07.840 my colleagues in the media don't have a clue what's going on. They, you know, both at Polyev's news

00:14:13.680 conference, at Doug Ford's news conference, it's just questions about will you bring in retaliatory

00:14:19.760 tariffs? Do you support striking back? Well, the goal is not to strike back. The goal should be to avoid

00:14:27.200 the tariffs. And listening to Trudeau do a scrum before going into his cabinet meeting this morning,

00:14:33.680 he kept talking about, well, we've got to lay out the facts. We've got to lay out the facts,

00:14:38.000 talking about trade. Well, the Americans aren't upset about trade with us. They're upset about the border.

00:14:45.440 So we need to deal with the border. We need to listen to our partner. It's like a marriage,

00:14:52.960 right? And if your wife is angry at you for leaving socks on the couch all the time, you don't answer 0.64

00:14:59.520 by saying, but honey, the garage is so clean. You deal with the socks. Otherwise, the fight's just

00:15:05.360 going to keep continuing. And right now, it looks like Justin Trudeau is being told, pick up your socks.

00:15:12.560 And he's saying, but the garage is clean. Well, that's irrelevant to what Trump wants. You can go

00:15:17.680 down and explain all the important trading relationships we have. And that work should be

00:15:24.560 done, okay? I'm not saying we don't do that. But if you just do that and don't deal with the

00:15:30.880 underlying issue, the fight will go on. And he sounds like that's where he wants to go.

00:15:36.000 Pierre Polyev came out and said, let's do a Team Canada approach, but here's what you need to do.

00:15:40.720 Axe the carbon tax, deal with the border, pick up defense spending, give the Americans what they 0.72

00:15:46.400 want because it's what Canada needs as well. Is Trudeau willing to go there? I really have my doubts.

00:15:54.080 Just my last question for you here. When you talk about that Team Canada approach,

00:15:58.080 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has been asked about this before, specifically when the tariffs,

00:16:01.840 we were still looking at that 10% number. And she was asked, you know, are you going to use your

00:16:06.560 Alberta oil to try to get a agreement with the United States that Canada would be exempt from

00:16:13.040 the tariffs because the United States needs your Alberta oil and because Donald Trump has signaled

00:16:17.680 that energy security is very important to him. Daniel Smith basically said, you know,

00:16:22.160 a Team Canada approach isn't really possible because we're so at odds with this Liberal government

00:16:26.880 and with their anti-oil agenda. Now I'm wondering, you know, you talk about the impact that these tariffs

00:16:32.400 would have on Alberta's energy industry. Do you think it's possible that even if Trump goes ahead

00:16:36.640 with it, that we would see an exemption for Alberta energy? Well, if he exempts Alberta energy, he needs

00:16:42.640 to exempt hydroelectric shipments from Quebec and British Columbia because those shipments keep the

00:16:49.280 lights on in places like Seattle, in San Francisco, in New York City, in Boston. Canadian energy,

00:16:57.600 writ large, is hugely important to the United States. But he's saying an across-the-board tariff.

00:17:07.120 If he means it and he does it, it is just devastating. Will we be able to get carved outs? I don't know.

00:17:14.480 I still think the best thing to do is avoid the tariffs. As I said, on the drug part, we have very

00:17:21.200 little that we would need to do to convince them that we are not the problem. Mexico is, and we're 0.91

00:17:26.080 already working with you and we'll do more. On the immigration side, that's going to require some

00:17:31.760 work and it'd be better if the Trudeau government did that than spend time trying to negotiate set

00:17:38.560 asides or cut carve outs for certain products. Just avoid the tariffs. Admit the border's a problem,

00:17:46.400 put in the resources, and let's get to work.

00:17:49.600 Brian, thank you so much.

00:17:53.120 Thank you.

00:17:54.320 That was Brian Lilly, a Toronto Sun columnist. You can go over to their website or his X account

00:18:00.880 to see his work where he talks about what Canada needs to do in order to avoid these 25% tariffs

00:18:07.360 that Donald Trump is currently threatening. Next, we are going to be speaking with formal

00:18:11.760 neighbour officer Andrew McGavelry to talk about concerns about the Royal Canadian Navy who are

00:18:19.040 planning to do away with its official marching song over concerns of its lyrics, which refer to

00:18:25.200 colonialism and lack examples of diversity. We've heard it all before. Now, this song, the British 0.68

00:18:31.360 song Heart of Oak dates back to 1759, more than a century before Canada's Confederation. But of course,

00:18:38.560 in our efforts to erase Canadian history, they will be doing away with it. Andrew,

00:18:43.200 thank you so much for being here today. I just want to start off the hop by asking you now this

00:18:48.480 marching song, how often was this something that you actually used, performed, sang, listened to

00:18:55.040 while you were in the Royal Canadian Navy?

00:18:58.320 So I served for 12 years out of sea at Esquimalt on the west coast. It's not something that I remember

00:19:05.040 being used too often. That's usually during parades and that sort of thing. But it's a huge deal

00:19:14.720 within the Royal Canadian Navy. You know, we focus on other things of being at sea, but it is used

00:19:20.560 and it's something, it's part of the tradition of the RCN that goes back, you know, over 100 years.

00:19:25.520 Is it a song that when you heard during these parades that you mentioned, is it something that

00:19:30.720 would sort of strike feelings of patriotism within you, feelings of pride, or would you say that you

00:19:36.960 were just kind of indifferent about it? So I was personally indifferent. There are people

00:19:41.440 out there and sailors that, you know, where it would have struck pride and that sort of thing. But I

00:19:47.600 think it just, it contributes to the larger picture of the complete erasure of the tradition within the

00:19:55.920 Navy, going back our ties to the Brits and what our, you know, small country has accomplished over

00:20:04.240 the past, you know, 100 years with the RCN. And it's just continued to erase that history. So there will

00:20:11.120 be people who don't care. There will be people that are upset about the removal of the song.

00:20:16.000 So the Royal Canadian Navy says that they are going to look at replacing the song because

00:20:23.120 it includes references to colonialism and slavery and slavery rather, and language that is not

00:20:29.200 representative of all those who serve in today's Navy. What's your response to this?

00:20:35.440 So they, they've been going through this, you know, modernization of, of the Navy from the changing

00:20:40.800 of the, uh, the ranks and the, you know, all the, the verbiage, the PER system, which is the,

00:20:49.040 the personnel evaluation report and, you know, just, just land acknowledgements. Right. So when I was

00:20:54.320 doing the ceremonies with, uh, uh, you know, the enrollment ceremonies, cause I was in recruiting my

00:21:00.400 past couple of years, you had to do these, uh, land acknowledgements and you couldn't use, you know,

00:21:05.920 gendered language and there was a lot of restrictions. So, uh, that that's like demoralizing,

00:21:11.360 you know, where they're focusing their efforts on just a bunch of nonsense when there's so many more

00:21:16.080 problems, uh, out there within the RCN that they could be focusing on. So it's, you know, like me,

00:21:22.320 like I said, me, me personally, it's not, you know, too big of a deal, but they have been attacking

00:21:27.040 tradition of the RCN as well as the Canadian forces as a whole. And that's, what's leading to,

00:21:32.160 uh, the, the crisis in recruiting and retention. And I believe it's a factor in, you know, why we're

00:21:38.720 over 20,000 regular force troops short of our full fighting strength.

00:21:43.840 So when you talk about, it just speaks to the fact that they have been attacking our history

00:21:47.920 and our tradition and, you know, the lack of recruits that's producing. Um, what are some other

00:21:52.640 examples? You seem to think that this has been a recurring issue within the Royal Canadian Navy.

00:21:57.600 What are some other ways that you feel that the Navy and the Canadian military has been

00:22:02.000 attacked? Um, and that's lead that's led to this struggle to find recruitment.

00:22:07.760 So there's a couple of things. The, the first thing is the introduction of a DEI. So diversity,

00:22:13.520 equity, and inclusion, and the adoption of using critical theory and critical race theory

00:22:20.240 to form a military doctrine and policy. They've come out and admitted that they've done that. You

00:22:26.000 know, so when I was in, you know, they brought in a, you know, they had to do this, you know,

00:22:32.080 DEI training session. They brought in a lady from D and D. She basically called, she attacked Christians. 1.00

00:22:38.720 She attacked, uh, men and she attacked white people. And, and basically, uh, you know, they called us all, 0.66

00:22:45.760 uh, colonizers. Um, and it was just, uh, it was just demoralizing. And so, you know,

00:22:52.400 that the first article I did about this with the Epoch Times back in, uh, March of 2022, this is what

00:22:59.440 I called, you know, the managed decline. They're doing this on purpose. They're purging, uh, patriotic

00:23:05.200 men and women, uh, from the Canadian armed forces and they're burning it down. Uh, so it's something

00:23:10.480 called entryism. So they're purging everyone. They've then changed the, uh, promotion system and

00:23:18.080 your annual reporting system from the PER system to the PAR system. And this PAR system, one of the

00:23:23.840 promotional criteria is, you know, how inclusive we are. So if you drink the liberal party Kool-Aid,

00:23:29.360 you know, we're going to promote you. And if you don't, uh, you won't get in and, uh, get a promotion.

00:23:34.640 So this is all being done on purpose. They want to build down or burn down the Canadian armed forces

00:23:39.360 and then build it back as this inclusive, uh, woke, completely ineffective fighting force.

00:23:45.280 Um, but that's not what the priority is. It's not defending the country. It's building

00:23:50.480 this into a complete, you know, woke, uh, laughing stock of the country.

00:23:55.360 You know, it's interesting. You say they are tearing down people who are Christians,

00:23:59.840 people who are white individuals who are men. I would assume that those categories make up most

00:24:06.160 of the Canadian Navy and the Canadian army. I know it's been a number of years since you were in it,

00:24:11.120 but you obviously still have close relationships with those involved. What's the morale like?

00:24:15.280 Right now. So morale has never been lower. Uh, and there's a reason, you know, there's, uh,

00:24:22.000 with my organization, we get sent a ton of tips, you know, pictures, documents, uh, that we sort of

00:24:28.000 share to sort of expose what's, uh, happening. Uh, the reason there's a reason that attrition doesn't

00:24:33.520 is that 9.2%. That's the last number we had from a couple months ago. And, you know,

00:24:38.640 they're trying to blame everything else except their DEI and woke policies. So it's bad right now

00:24:45.360 with 9.2%. However, you know, the, the G water global war on terror, uh, terror veterans,

00:24:52.160 they're going to be approaching their 25 year, uh, pensions within the next couple of years.

00:24:57.440 I know guys who are senior, who are discounting on the days, uh, for them to, to pop smoke and,

00:25:04.160 and retire. So it's going to get even worse over the next three to five years, unless there's drastic

00:25:10.240 changes that are made and, uh, you know, boost morale and get them new equipment, get them the proper,

00:25:16.160 uh, training and build that esprit de corps and that cohesion, uh, within their, your fighting units.

00:25:22.880 That is what you have to do. Wow. You know, I suspect that with the liberal government's efforts

00:25:28.240 to so strongly attack what they believe is called toxic masculinity, just strong men, it's impacting

00:25:34.720 the Canadian Navy, the military, but I also suspect that it's impacting, uh, Canadian border service

00:25:40.320 agents. And we know that there is a need for more hiring there. We were just talking about this on the

00:25:44.880 show today, given Trump's 25% tariffs that he's going to be imposing. One of the things the liberal

00:25:50.240 government could do is they could strengthen our border, our shared border with the United

00:25:55.440 States of America, put more border agents there, but I can't help, but wonder if they're attacking

00:26:00.880 the strong men that we need to fill these roles. Are they even going to be able to fill those drops?

00:26:05.920 Should they, you know, decide to spend more and, and to actually seek to recruit individuals?

00:26:11.200 Yeah. So it's the, in terms of recruiting, uh, your highest per capita, uh, for Canadian

00:26:20.560 Armed Forces recruiting is from rural areas. Okay. The reason being is one, uh, you can, uh, kids, uh,

00:26:28.960 young men and women with grade 10 education can join and become infanteers and cooks. Uh, two, uh, you can,

00:26:35.280 and, uh, there's good, like less job opportunity in these rural areas. Okay. And three, um, there's

00:26:42.720 jobs within the Canadian Armed Forces that, uh, you know, attract people who live in rural areas,

00:26:49.040 such as shooting guns, you know, driving AV ATVs, uh, being out of the bush or being out in the bush.

00:26:55.200 So what they've done is what this sort of woke DEI stuff, they've killed completely alienated

00:27:01.200 their natural base of recruiting, right? Because young men and women from rural areas,

00:27:06.080 generally conservative, uh, do not want to join with, uh, with sort of woke nonsense. And so

00:27:13.360 the highest per, so it's not the most, but when I was in recruiting the highest per capita,

00:27:17.760 so the best bang for the buck that the Canadian Armed Forces got was from a rural areas, which are

00:27:23.760 generally conservative. So they completely, uh, alienated them. Now in, there's a great podcaster

00:27:29.840 out there called Andy Stumpf, the ex Navy SEAL. And he was asked, uh, he was at a leadership

00:27:34.640 conference and he was asked about diversity in the SEALs and if there was impacting operations.

00:27:38.960 And his quote, which I remember verbatim is the best I've ever heard. He said, well,

00:27:44.560 are we aiming for diversity or are we aiming to achieve, to achieve a standard that is dictated 0.94

00:27:51.440 by what we encounter on the battlefield and the battlefield doesn't give a crap about diversity. 0.54

00:27:56.560 And that's exactly what it is. And unfortunately, you know, the senior officers like from like

00:28:02.080 general Rick Hillier of, uh, you know, was back of the chief of defense staff back in the nineties.

00:28:07.920 Uh, he made a great comment. He said, you know, we're not just some, uh, other, you know,

00:28:11.840 some public service department, we are the Canadian Armed Forces and we are in the business of killing 0.66

00:28:15.920 people. And they've got so far away from that. They've put in a very woke, uh, Jenny Kerrigan,

00:28:23.280 Kerrigan who drinks the liberal party Kool-Aid. And so there has to be wholesale changes to the

00:28:29.520 culture of the Canadian Armed Forces, and they have to bring back some toxic masculinity because

00:28:35.440 the primary role of the infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy.

00:28:39.440 Bring back toxic masculinity. Maybe that can be your next t-shirt. I just thought that this would be a

00:28:44.800 fun little anecdote for the audience, but before we got started, we were chatting and it turns out

00:28:49.040 that those maple mega hats that you guys have been seeing everywhere. I've been seeing everywhere.

00:28:54.320 Andrew is actually the person who's been supplying them online. He says that his products have never

00:28:59.440 been in higher demand. What other types of products do you sell online and where can my audience find

00:29:04.720 your merch? Uh, so you can check it out at, uh, maple mega dot shop. So dot S H O P. And we're putting up

00:29:13.200 new lines, uh, uh, every week and we got all sorts of, uh, funny hats and things that are out there that

00:29:19.360 are mocking, uh, the, uh, the liberals. Now just, just to caveat that I'm just, uh, sort of helping out.

00:29:25.200 I'm not necessarily only there's a young man named, uh, AJ who's, who's running it. And, uh, I'm just, uh,

00:29:31.600 purchased some of the merch and shared it around and it's, uh, it's pretty funny and it's really taking off.

00:29:36.880 That's great. Well, I spend way too much of my hard earned, valueless Canadian dollar on political merch.

00:29:44.080 So I will definitely be checking out your store. Andrew, thanks so much for joining us today.

00:29:48.160 We look forward to following your work and some of the more stories that you have on the corruption

00:29:53.200 going on within the woke Canadian military and Navy. Thank you for having me.

00:29:59.440 All right, everyone. And finally moving into our weekly comment roundup. I started this as you guys likely

00:30:06.240 remember when I did the Albert, Alberta roundup all those months ago, and I've continued to read

00:30:11.840 through your comments. So taking a look at the first one here, this is from Trevor. He said,

00:30:16.320 Diagonon equals three to four guys getting drunk in a basement, making fun of the liberal government.

00:30:22.080 Okay. So that's exactly my assessment of the group, but they're really just a bunch of guys who are

00:30:26.880 joking around that somehow have been taken like way too seriously accused of essentially being terrorists.

00:30:32.880 Um, that just shows the state of the day. And then angry Albertan said, these men speaking about the

00:30:40.000 coots for our white native born Canadian patriots who love their country. And that's why they're

00:30:47.360 condemned as terrorists. No, I'm inclined to agree. And also if you guys haven't already heard,

00:30:51.840 you should go back and listen to Tucker Carlson's speech from January, almost a year ago now,

00:30:58.080 but it was still January, 20, 23, when he was in Alberta, he did those two stops in Calgary and

00:31:03.040 in Edmonton. And we spoke a lot about how our elites are trying to essentially destroy Canada by,

00:31:10.000 you know, having this bail, not jail policies by having things like medical assistance and dying

00:31:16.480 by their fentanyl policies, which are killing Canadians. Um, and I think that this comment sort of speaks to

00:31:21.520 that as to people who have been born here, who have lived their all their lives, um,

00:31:26.320 who have paid taxes into the system. So, so much of their lives are suddenly so discounted and treated

00:31:31.600 as so less than compared to newcomers who are coming here. All right, everyone, that's all we have time 1.00

00:31:36.960 for today. Let me know what you thought of today's interviews. I look forward to reading your comments.

00:31:41.360 I hope that you guys have a great rest of your week. God bless.

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