Juno News - August 16, 2024


Disgraceful Neglect： Trudeau government offering MAiD to veterans


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00:00:00.000 Since legalizing euthanasia in 2016, Canada has quickly become the country with one of the highest rates of euthanasia in the world.
00:00:12.480 And if it wasn't for significant pushback and protests, the Canadian government would have already expanded the euthanasia regime
00:00:18.260 to allow people suffering from mental illness and chronic pain to kill themselves at the hands of the state.
00:00:24.400 And in 2022, news broke that Veterans Affairs case officers offered death, offered euthanasia as a treatment option to veterans suffering with PTSD.
00:00:34.980 Frankly, one of the most disgraceful stories I've ever read.
00:00:37.600 Well, our next guest on the Faulkner Show is one of the leading voices in Canada against the expansion of the euthanasia program.
00:00:43.960 And as an Afghan war vet who was discharged by the Canadian Armed Forces after being diagnosed with PTSD,
00:00:49.880 you could say that this subject is very close to her heart.
00:00:53.080 All right, well, joining us now on the Faulkner Show is a Canadian veteran, the CEO of Brass and Unity,
00:01:00.100 and the host of the Kelsey Sharon Perspective podcast.
00:01:03.780 Kelsey Sharon, thank you so much for joining us.
00:01:06.140 Thanks so much for having me, Harrison. I'm happy to be here.
00:01:08.900 Right, so for those who follow your work and who know your podcast,
00:01:12.440 they will know that you spend a lot of time addressing the expansion of euthanasia in this country.
00:01:17.420 It really is one of those subjects that seems to be your main focus.
00:01:21.540 What motivated you to be such an outspoken voice about this issue to try to prevent the spread of euthanasia in Canada?
00:01:29.200 You know, I think you have these moments in your life where you, people will ask you,
00:01:34.420 what did you ever do when the Nazis were around?
00:01:36.960 What did you do? What would you have done?
00:01:38.760 And I see the regime and the dying with dignity cult as really dark energy that is walking around our earth telling us that we should kill ourselves.
00:01:48.460 And I believe that you get these moments in your life where you get to decide how are you going to respond when something serious happens.
00:01:56.780 And so for me, it was really simply because they went after veterans first.
00:02:01.080 And when you start targeting veterans, I am a veteran.
00:02:04.120 And just because I'm not serving anymore does not mean I'm not paying attention to everyone in our community.
00:02:09.620 And they started targeting the vulnerable population very quietly and very sneaky.
00:02:15.020 And that, to me, signaled that they were doing something that they didn't want anyone to see.
00:02:19.320 We've read the reports coming out about the veterans being offered euthanasia.
00:02:26.920 According to news reports, it was about five or six veterans who were offered euthanasia by a Veterans Affairs worker.
00:02:34.180 And according to Veterans Affairs Canada, it was only one worker who was offering that to veterans who were in need of help.
00:02:42.120 Is that accurate or is this practice more widespread in the military?
00:02:45.960 And is it worse than what the media and Veterans Affairs are telling us?
00:02:49.320 I think we should always remember, Harrison, and I think this is why you exist as well.
00:02:53.820 We should always remember that the media lies.
00:02:56.460 We should always be looking at this objectively from a non-emotional standpoint, just questioning the facts.
00:03:01.620 And the facts are it was at least two case managers in multiple different places in the country and different genders.
00:03:08.560 And so it was a male and it was a female.
00:03:10.580 And we do have that on record.
00:03:12.180 And they do say they don't record our phone calls, but they do.
00:03:14.900 And we have proof of that.
00:03:16.120 And we now have veterans who have recorded their own phone calls or their own letters and their own statements that have been made by Veterans Affairs Canada towards veterans who have been on the chopping block for a long time or have become a burden on the system, i.e.
00:03:29.780 they've been in the programs for an extended period of time, just like Christine Gauthier was.
00:03:34.340 And that's why she was being offered euthanasia, because let's just be very clear about this right now.
00:03:40.340 And this is something I'm correcting.
00:03:42.700 Made only happens, meaning assisted suicide only happens to such a small number of people in this country.
00:03:48.360 The majority of people are euthanized by a doctor or a nurse practitioner.
00:03:51.980 So by definition, to keep calling it made is to sugarcoat it and pretend that it isn't what it is.
00:03:59.160 It is killing individuals.
00:04:00.780 It is taking them off the face of the earth.
00:04:02.740 It is ending their life, often prematurely.
00:04:05.680 That's what it is.
00:04:07.920 And the government has been trying to expand this ever since they were able to push this in around 2016.
00:04:15.100 They've now wanted to expand it to include people who have mental illnesses, people who are not terminally ill, but have chronic illnesses.
00:04:23.860 And I'm just wondering why the federal government even cares about this so much.
00:04:28.480 Why are they trying to push this to make it so broad as to basically leave Canada standing alone in the world as one of the most liberal euthanasia regimes in the world?
00:04:39.020 Why is this even a policy that the government wants to pursue?
00:04:41.200 That's what happens when you over-immigrate a bunch of people and have no help, no support, no networks, and no facilities for anyone.
00:04:49.420 You start to chop out the people that are the liability and the burden on the system.
00:04:54.340 And people can say that's dramatic, but that's honest to God what's truly happening.
00:04:58.620 This is what happens when you read the BC StatsCan report currently just from British Columbia alone.
00:05:05.100 They've wanted to expand this for a while, but due to the sunset clause, it couldn't go forward and it got stopped this March.
00:05:10.780 But it will, by the looks of it, expand.
00:05:13.600 And the way that Dying with Dignity and CAM map, who are the individuals who train all of our doctors, they have trained them to find the loopholes.
00:05:20.840 You can look in the BC StatsCan data points.
00:05:24.340 With over 2,700 people being killed last year in Canada alone, there was over 50% of those individuals had a comorbidity or other listed on their death certificate.
00:05:34.200 And when you look under comorbidity or other, they state it could be diabetes, it could be depression, it could be fragility.
00:05:41.620 But they don't give a descriptor of what fragility means to them or what depressive state they're in.
00:05:47.160 Because as it states is that there is the track 1 and the track 2.
00:05:50.920 And you are supposed to have a terminal illness for one of these tracks, one that is a foreseeable death.
00:05:57.900 Part of the way they've been able to scapegoat that or pass that bill, pass these bills and keep pushing this forward,
00:06:05.480 is simply because they now have doctors at CAM map that are teaching people that if you just start to deny food and water,
00:06:13.220 you will become a candidate and you will become so frail that if you didn't qualify before, now you will qualify.
00:06:20.460 They have found the loopholes.
00:06:22.620 And this isn't, you know, Christopher Lyon, who teaches at York University in London,
00:06:27.700 he has come out and spoke about how this is a potential, not calling them,
00:06:33.340 this is a potential medical situation that has the opportunity for serial killers to become into the healthcare system.
00:06:40.480 And they are called healthcare serial killers.
00:06:42.160 This is a pattern of behavior we're seeing.
00:06:44.400 There are several doctors like Stephanie Green.
00:06:46.620 I refuse to call her a doctor.
00:06:48.120 Any doctor worth their salt helps people and doesn't spend their whole career ending lives.
00:06:53.120 And people like Elaine Weeb, Ellen Weeb in West Broadway, who have some of the highest murder rates.
00:07:00.240 And I say murder because when you take someone off the face of the earth that wasn't dying,
00:07:03.800 therefore you are, according to the government, non-culpable due to their new, the way that they wrote the laws around maid and euthanasia.
00:07:13.500 And that's the problem with Canada here, Harrison, we have to remember is there is no safeguards.
00:07:18.000 There is no oversight committee.
00:07:19.520 There is nobody looking at who is making this decision.
00:07:23.200 It all falls on what we hope the doctor does the best job at, which is assessing.
00:07:29.420 And we know, and we know factually now, people have been assessed and killed who do not qualify under this government.
00:07:37.700 So you believe that the expansion of the euthanasia program in Canada is a way to try to control the amount of people who would require health care in our system?
00:07:49.300 Are you asking me as if that's not like a realistic thought process?
00:07:54.300 I mean, look at this logistically.
00:07:56.060 The amount of people who cannot get access to a doctor.
00:07:58.480 I'm currently waiting on a knee surgery.
00:08:00.480 Okay.
00:08:00.800 So that is upwards of 24 months.
00:08:03.620 I cannot get into a family doctor unless I have one and good luck even trying to find one on top of immigrating half a million people into the country who we do not have a similar culture to.
00:08:13.600 And the medical system cannot, if not most doctors I speak to, even understand the people that are walking into their office.
00:08:19.780 So one of the problems we're seeing is the everyday Canadian who was born and raised in this country is not getting access to what we pay into.
00:08:27.160 And they have to come up with some solution as to what is wrong and how we fix our broken system.
00:08:34.020 So if you think about the amount of money that somebody who is, say, in their 70s, who has terminal cancer or Alzheimer's or dementia, or even just postpartum depression, for example, or major depressive disorder.
00:08:47.140 Somebody who has become a burden who cannot work, who feeds off of the finances, who needs medical care consistently, or almost 24s around the clock.
00:08:56.940 We don't have enough nurses.
00:08:58.100 We don't have enough doctors.
00:08:59.140 We don't have enough care aides.
00:09:00.140 And now you have people like Dying With Dignity who are lobbying the government currently to force all Catholic institutions to provide euthanasia.
00:09:08.760 I don't feel like anything I'm saying is this massively objectified or just like dramatic thing.
00:09:19.400 All I'm doing is sitting down, very simply taking my time and reading papers from people like Christopher Lyon and Alex Schattenberg and Alicia Duncan's family story and Roger Foley's story who's coming on the show.
00:09:32.300 And I'm seeing the abuses of power time and time and time and time again.
00:09:36.160 This is not exaggerated.
00:09:37.080 This is just the obvious laid out points in front of us that none of us want to look at because they are so terrifying when you realize what the government has been doing since 2016.
00:09:47.180 It is terrifying.
00:09:48.500 And I want to go back to the situation with euthanasia being offered to veterans.
00:09:53.320 This sounds like it should be criminal, what many of these people inside Veterans Affairs Canada were doing.
00:10:01.920 And so is that the case?
00:10:03.820 Is this being looked at through a criminal lens?
00:10:07.000 Because it sounds like it should be.
00:10:09.080 No, absolutely not.
00:10:10.340 Why would we hold people accountable for murdering people or offering death to people?
00:10:14.280 You know, the way that the laws were wrote when 2016 was amended, and it was an amendment of the criminal court.
00:10:19.880 It was not an amendment of some new law brought into place.
00:10:22.900 It was an amendment stating that you would no longer, as a doctor or the person providing the lethal injection, would be able to be charged with murder.
00:10:30.960 And that's one thing we have to be remembering is there are not safeguards around this in Canada.
00:10:37.640 And Canada has one of the, well, the highest rate of euthanasia.
00:10:41.200 So if we go way back, way, way back, and I spoke to Jordan Peterson about this, when you go back and you look at the 1930s and you look at the eugenics program, I'm not talking about the Holocaust.
00:10:51.740 I'm talking about the eugenics program.
00:10:53.240 The first targeted verbiage that is being used, was used then, is now being used now by organizations like Dying with Dignity.
00:10:59.980 And it is the compassionate, empathetic removal of people who shouldn't have to suffer in any way, shape, or form.
00:11:06.940 So what they do is they target those that cost a lot of money.
00:11:09.880 I am a disabled veteran.
00:11:11.460 I cost them a significant amount of money to treat the ailments that were caused during war.
00:11:16.700 When you have people that are injured in their 20s, in the 20-year war that we just abandoned, you are going to have to follow people until they're 75 years old, Harrison.
00:11:26.000 Veterans are one of those individuals that were targeted by the eugenics program with the World War I veterans.
00:11:33.240 Why wouldn't they target us now?
00:11:35.580 It's no different.
00:11:36.720 When you're a liability, you're a liability to the system.
00:11:39.440 And if they feel like they can quietly get away with removing you or hyper-suggesting that death is the solution, which, by the way, is illegal.
00:11:48.460 And there are cases in Quebec that have been known in 2021 and 2022 where people, 15 people, were illegally taken off the face of the earth with euthanasia.
00:11:59.540 You cannot tell me that doctors don't have their own ideology, their own communities, their own way of thinking, because they are humans and humans make mistakes.
00:12:07.680 So you cannot tell me that people are not promoting it when we have evidence and proof otherwise.
00:12:12.140 And so now I'm seeing reports that euthanasia is looking, is being looked at in the United States and they want to try to expand it in the United Kingdom and Australia as well.
00:12:23.520 So it's sort of becoming this, this broadly accepted practice.
00:12:28.320 Somehow it's a medical practice now all over the West.
00:12:31.980 Yeah.
00:12:32.640 So America's not looking at it, Harrison.
00:12:35.120 America has 10 states in one jurisdiction that already provide it.
00:12:38.540 So America is rapidly expanding right now.
00:12:41.880 This is why I have been pushing so hard to speak to Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan about this, because most Americans are so distracted right now with the absolute nightmare that is their election cycle.
00:12:53.920 They are completely missing the fact that Delaware, not even a month ago, voted to expand Maine.
00:12:59.540 OK, so we have had this happening under the cloak and dagger while everyone's distracted.
00:13:04.520 The UK and now the new Labour Minister, who is now the Prime Minister, is the person who has been single-handedly pushing euthanasia expansion into the UK.
00:13:15.220 Australia's VAD program, they are starting, I know they've legalized, but November 3rd of 2025.
00:13:20.480 If you look at the globe on a whole and you don't just, if you pull back and give yourself some perspective, that's what my show does.
00:13:29.520 This is a global effort and there's something greater.
00:13:32.780 And then when you listen to people like Bill Gates step on stages and talk about death commissions, weighing someone's life versus the dollar it will cost them to keep them alive.
00:13:42.160 You can see that we are under a completely different umbrella here on how we want to handle and how we view the value of life.
00:13:51.620 And just lastly, as a veteran who, for the longest time in our life, we're told we were numbers to them.
00:13:59.700 They are sure showing us that we have been nothing but numbers with how they treat us.
00:14:04.600 And I cannot see how you would have another Canadian who's serving now or serves later, who will ever go to bat and put their life on the line for this government.
00:14:13.440 Because I will tell you right now, Harrison, I would not.
00:14:17.560 And so where is the government going wrong when it comes to helping veterans?
00:14:22.780 Because it's probably, it's a massive question, of course.
00:14:25.260 But besides the most disgraceful part of all, being offering veterans in need euthanasia, where is the government going wrong right now when it comes to treating veterans?
00:14:36.600 Oh, several different areas, of course.
00:14:38.760 That's what happens when you farm most of the Veterans Affairs cases out to insurance companies instead of case managers who want to see Veterans Affairs clients do well.
00:14:48.780 Case managers have so many different clients themselves.
00:14:52.440 They used to be visiting them in person.
00:14:54.160 My case manager used to come to my home.
00:14:56.520 Now they have upwards of 50 to 75 clients on their own individually.
00:15:00.320 We've shut down offices.
00:15:01.920 We've defunded them.
00:15:03.340 We've taken away case managers.
00:15:04.880 We've over-prescribed pharmaceutical intervention.
00:15:07.900 We have a terrible transition program out of service.
00:15:10.640 We have a lack of community and a lack of purpose.
00:15:13.180 And when you remove community and purpose and identity, Harrison, from the job that you did for 20 years or 25 or even five,
00:15:20.960 you're now removing that safe network from them, and then you tell them they're broken, they will never heal, and to take these drugs.
00:15:28.660 So this is what we've been doing for all of the last war, which was the GY Afghanistan war that Canada was heavily involved in that most people don't seem to be aware of.
00:15:37.500 And we tell them, when you get home, we will help you.
00:15:41.060 But I can tell you for the six months that I never received a phone call after my deployment from no doctor or no case manager or no help at all,
00:15:47.520 and the 11 different drugs I was on at 19, individuals who come home just want to be in their community and feel like they are not alone.
00:15:55.220 And the last thing we are doing is giving them that.
00:15:58.960 You made a point about how the fact that many Canadians don't seem to recognize or acknowledge the human cost that Canada paid in Afghanistan.
00:16:09.500 Over 150 Canadians lost their lives in combat.
00:16:13.180 You were in combat in Afghanistan.
00:16:15.500 How did it make you feel as an Afghan war vet to see Afghanistan fall in 2021 and to see the enemy that you fought so hard against return back into power?
00:16:28.620 The timing on this and the question you just asked me gave my whole body goosebumps.
00:16:32.500 We are going on the third anniversary right now.
00:16:35.580 I got involved in the Afghan pullout.
00:16:37.960 Ironically, I had no place in being in that.
00:16:41.320 I was just writing a reel about it right now.
00:16:43.300 The Afghan pullout was one of the saddest, most pathetic examples of lack of leadership and skill I've ever seen.
00:16:50.520 And I can tell you right now, other veterans around the globe feel that way as well.
00:16:55.560 And to those that died at Abbey Gate, and we knew that there was a vehicle-borne IED coming 18 hours prior to that.
00:17:03.260 A lot of these things could have been prevented.
00:17:05.740 There were Canadians on the ground in Afghanistan who were pulled out prematurely,
00:17:10.480 and we left almost every Canadian visa holder in that country.
00:17:15.360 Furthermore, I was working with Americans and British to remove the highest-ranking female Afghan family from the government into Canada
00:17:24.300 because they had Canadian visas.
00:17:26.160 And I was met time and time again with wall after wall because Trudeau decided to call a snap election.
00:17:31.640 CBC called me the morning, I think it was the 18th, saying they would like to have some veterans on the panel
00:17:38.960 to discuss their feelings around the Afghan pullout.
00:17:41.420 My response was you would like to gaslight a bunch of veterans on national television
00:17:45.920 to describe how injured and how much of a problem we are.
00:17:49.560 They called me back the next day and said that Trudeau has pulled all stories related to the Afghan pullout,
00:17:55.260 and we are not allowed to discuss it.
00:17:57.200 It took Americans and British to save my Canadian family to the point where we got them in the country
00:18:04.140 without the government even knowing it.
00:18:06.320 Does that sound like it rings a bell around immigration issues, my friend?
00:18:10.020 It's just incredible, really.
00:18:12.820 And there's so much that I would like to get into with that, of course.
00:18:17.100 There really is.
00:18:17.720 But I want to kind of continue this conversation about the state of the military.
00:18:23.240 And much has been made about the culture inside the military.
00:18:27.880 Over the past few years, we have heard the number of allegations made by female members of the military
00:18:35.820 towards senior high-ranking male officers alleging sexual misconduct inside the military,
00:18:43.060 and to the point where the now chief of defense staff was given the role of leading culture change operations inside the military.
00:18:50.380 When you were there inside the active, when you were inside the CAF and you were on the ground in Afghanistan,
00:18:56.940 did you feel like there was a serious cultural problem that needed to be addressed inside the military?
00:19:02.280 There's always been cultural problems that need to be addressed inside the military.
00:19:05.580 It all comes down to, do you have a staff member that's willing to put their career on the line to protect you?
00:19:12.300 Fortunately, I did.
00:19:13.900 I had no issue saying what was wrong.
00:19:16.040 I didn't care about my career, but I cared about my mind and my body and my soul over anything else.
00:19:21.140 What we have in the Canadian Armed Forces right now, I've been out for quite some time,
00:19:24.940 but I am heavily involved in the community.
00:19:26.940 And there is a new documentary with Aaron Gunn coming out that I am a part of,
00:19:30.440 where we discuss the issues around the CAF currently.
00:19:33.880 But I will tell you exactly what I said to Jordan Peterson.
00:19:38.560 DEI gets people killed, Harrison.
00:19:41.920 DEI is the problem with the service.
00:19:45.200 If you look at the amount of individuals that are actually deployable currently in Canada,
00:19:49.860 it should scare the living hell out of you.
00:19:52.060 That's how little people we have prepared to go fight on behalf of us.
00:19:55.580 Because we have not only kicked out every single person who has real wartime fighting at all,
00:20:04.500 and we have kicked out anybody who knows how to handle things like Bosnia, Rwanda, Croatia, Afghanistan, Iraq.
00:20:11.060 These are supposed to be the knowledge bearers that pass things down.
00:20:14.380 But unfortunately, we've kicked them out for things like not wearing masks,
00:20:18.000 or opposing tampons in the men's bathroom, or saying that all men and women are the same, and we're not.
00:20:24.060 The Canadian Armed Forces has never, that I know of, protected anybody from the assault issues.
00:20:30.680 Perfect example, look at Officer X.
00:20:33.240 Do you know how many people know that person's name, Harrison, and refuse to say it because they're in fear?
00:20:37.960 This is where we're at, right?
00:20:41.940 We all know who do the assaults.
00:20:44.180 My major has been charged with seven sexual assaults, and somehow was still promoted throughout the ranks.
00:20:49.680 And he actually left the pension.
00:20:51.940 So the fact is, people are skating the system,
00:20:55.640 because other people don't want to see those individuals' lives ruined,
00:20:59.740 and their whole families and last names colored with disdain.
00:21:03.620 Because that is sometimes what happens with people in power,
00:21:06.200 just like with euthanasia and doctors.
00:21:09.140 You're going to have a very small subset that get off on the power,
00:21:13.500 and get off on the control, and think that because they're in power, i.e. Russell Williams,
00:21:18.580 you can get away with doing heinous things, and you can do it for quite some time.
00:21:24.400 Well, you said that DEI gets soldiers killed,
00:21:27.760 and according to the outgoing Chief of Defense Staff Wayne Ayer,
00:21:31.480 veterans and those who criticize diversity in the military
00:21:34.880 are actually aiding Canada's enemies.
00:21:37.980 Those were his words when he handed over control of the military to General Jenny Carignan.
00:21:43.480 What do you make of those comments?
00:21:45.440 Well, that's what happens when you hand it over to another DEI hire.
00:21:48.820 You can't, listen, that's where we're at.
00:21:51.240 You can say, Kelsey, but you're female.
00:21:52.760 How could you say that?
00:21:53.500 I would refer to my people who were abandoned on the ground by her.
00:21:57.660 I would refer to my people who say that DEI is the reason why other people respond differently in firefights.
00:22:05.120 Now, some people have never been in a firefight to understand how they will respond,
00:22:10.020 and I can respect that.
00:22:11.320 But what I cannot respect is removing safe spaces from women when we already have a rape and assault problem,
00:22:17.560 and putting grown men with intact penises into female spaces,
00:22:22.760 that is a problem, and that is putting women at risk right off the bat.
00:22:27.780 And if people say that we, the veterans, who are from the era of, I don't know,
00:22:32.600 standards and regulations and standard operating procedures,
00:22:36.100 who genuinely understand what it means to fight in a war,
00:22:39.300 not a single one of us will stand there and say,
00:22:41.700 you should have rainbow beards and men with penises in the women's change room, period.
00:22:47.560 So I get the sense that you're not a big fan of General Jenny Carignan,
00:22:51.380 Canada's new chief of defense staff.
00:22:53.120 You made mention of the story surrounding her evacuation in Iraq for the listeners.
00:23:00.440 We approached the Department of National Defense about these allegations,
00:23:06.100 and they said that they are categorically false and it is disinformation.
00:23:09.660 So what do you make of the appointment and where have you heard these rumors from about the Iraq evacuation attempts?
00:23:19.220 From the individuals she abandoned.
00:23:21.960 From people on the ground.
00:23:23.480 From people on the ground.
00:23:25.040 Every single thing that I say comes from somebody on the ground or comes with a piece of paper.
00:23:29.080 Now, I will say this, if at any point this comes out that this was not true, I will fully apologize.
00:23:36.600 But currently right now, the people that she did abandon, that I was told from them, from their perception,
00:23:43.220 because this is what matters, right?
00:23:45.100 If the people on the ground perceive that they were abandoned, then they were abandoned.
00:23:50.940 I don't care what her perception of the events were.
00:23:53.520 Those below her, who she was supposed to be the leader for, feel that way.
00:23:59.640 So if they felt that way, then that's all that matters to me.
00:24:04.020 Now, the fact that she rose to the ranks that she did, good for her.
00:24:08.520 That's not an easy job to do.
00:24:10.420 Now, did she rise because she was a woman, though, in a day and age where only, only, only DEI matters?
00:24:16.300 That is the only qualification you need.
00:24:18.180 Because she is a white woman.
00:24:19.540 Am I wrong on this?
00:24:20.780 So if she's a white woman, she has to play every area she can.
00:24:24.820 She's a woman.
00:24:26.040 She's a woman in a man's world.
00:24:28.160 She's a woman that promotes equity and diversity for all.
00:24:31.540 Really, what that stands for is she is a woman who is willing to eradicate women's history
00:24:35.520 and people like Christine Gauthier, who fought to be able to be in artillery
00:24:39.140 so that I can turn around and be an artillery gunner, too.
00:24:41.860 That comes from real women who show up and do the hard work,
00:24:45.160 shut their mouth, and take it so that other women can come behind them.
00:24:49.080 Not from women who got in the ranks because they were a woman
00:24:53.020 and they lean on the fact that they were a woman.
00:24:55.640 I don't care what her history is.
00:24:57.880 I care that when it came to the point where the leadership skill mattered the most,
00:25:02.520 those around her did not feel supported.
00:25:05.500 And that right there, my friend, is the thread of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:25:10.000 Lack of support and leadership has been the problem since day one,
00:25:14.220 and it is still the problem.
00:25:16.380 And I like to ask veterans this question whenever I interview them
00:25:20.340 because I feel like they bring an interesting perspective to the table.
00:25:24.680 What do you feel like the military needs to do right away
00:25:28.660 if it is to start solving some of these serious problems inside the military,
00:25:32.400 whether it's a morale crisis, a leadership crisis?
00:25:36.060 What are those first steps that need to be taken right now to fix the military?
00:25:40.020 Well, I think the harder question is how do you fix a completely failing system?
00:25:44.060 You have to cut the head off the snake.
00:25:45.560 You have to get new leadership,
00:25:47.060 and leadership that doesn't believe in things like DEI and men's tampons
00:25:50.660 in the women's bathrooms and men in women's spaces.
00:25:53.340 We have a real assault problem.
00:25:55.540 We should be removing men from women's vulnerable spaces.
00:25:59.600 We should be telling them that if you're caught even one time,
00:26:03.560 your career is over.
00:26:05.140 And then making an example of the leadership that have spent 20 years
00:26:09.440 climbing and stepping on women and assaulting them and getting away with it.
00:26:14.060 Secondly, you need to stop, and I mean stop,
00:26:18.700 skating the system with people who are individually hurt.
00:26:21.620 Because right now they are hiring people that they kick people like me out for.
00:26:26.340 Post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:26:28.100 They have told all of us we're broken,
00:26:30.040 but yet they have no one to bring into the ranks.
00:26:32.880 So they're allowing for leeway in areas that they kicked other people out for.
00:26:38.380 We need to be rehiring immediately anybody who was booted out for not getting vaccinated.
00:26:43.620 Those are the people that should be the leaderships,
00:26:45.860 who are willing to stand on the hill and die for it.
00:26:48.700 That is a leader.
00:26:49.920 We need to be bringing people like Dallas Alexander back into the ranks
00:26:53.220 so we can genuinely teach snipers how to do their job effectively.
00:26:57.540 Because everyone worth their salt, last I checked,
00:27:00.300 has left or been kicked out.
00:27:01.580 So I think there are several things that we can do,
00:27:04.300 but we need to be sending a message to these men and women,
00:27:08.140 because there are men and women in power,
00:27:11.060 that if you abuse your ranks, you abandon your ranks,
00:27:14.660 you harm someone in any way, you're gone,
00:27:18.000 your pension is gone, and you are being criminally charged.
00:27:20.700 Wow, that gives a lot to listen to and to think about.
00:27:28.120 Before I let you go, Kelsey, I want to give you the chance to talk more about your podcast
00:27:32.180 and where Canadians can listen to it.
00:27:34.700 Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:35.760 We rebranded.
00:27:36.580 I have a company called Brass in Unity that we help the veteran organizations all over the world with,
00:27:40.540 but we rebranded the show to the Kelsey Sharon perspective.
00:27:43.160 We're four years into the show, and you know what it's like.
00:27:45.700 Sometimes you've got to evolve.
00:27:47.160 And we are evolving into conversations that are not just about resiliency in life,
00:27:51.800 but they are about targeting and going after people who are doing wrong to not only this nation,
00:27:57.060 but our globe, and giving those people's stories a voice,
00:28:00.260 and not only giving the stories a voice,
00:28:02.240 but allowing the listeners to understand while the world is going on around you,
00:28:06.480 and you are so focused on paying taxes and getting your kids to school,
00:28:09.780 I'm here to give you pieces of information.
00:28:12.120 Otherwise, you would never have heard because people with dying with dignity
00:28:15.660 will do everything they can to hide it from you
00:28:17.940 and hide the malice that they're causing to this country.
00:28:21.100 And that's what this show is.
00:28:22.220 So they can find the Kelsey Sharon perspective on every platform.
00:28:25.680 YouTube, we are highly banned.
00:28:27.080 So please do go subscribe there.
00:28:28.540 That helps us a lot.
00:28:29.720 And share our content.
00:28:31.340 Our clips right now are highly focused around euthanasia.
00:28:34.040 And we do have some other big episodes coming out around it.
00:28:37.100 And we do appreciate your support.
00:28:38.480 And more importantly, Harrison, thank you for doing what you do,
00:28:41.480 especially with your show,
00:28:42.720 because it makes other Canadians over here feel like we are actually being heard.
00:28:46.860 So thank you for that.
00:28:48.220 Well, thank you.
00:28:49.080 And thank you for highlighting the euthanasia story
00:28:51.940 because it is one of the most disgraceful things in this country.
00:28:55.260 And it's incredibly dark.
00:28:57.040 And there needs to be light shined on it.
00:28:59.140 So thank you, Kelsey.
00:29:00.340 A link to the Kelsey Sharon perspective you can find in the description of this video.
00:29:05.360 Kelsey, once again, thank you so much for joining us.
00:29:07.220 Thank you for having me.
00:29:08.520 Thank you.