Juno News - Feds spend $8 million on storage barn (ft. Kris Sims)

00:00:00.000 you're tuned in to the andrew lawton show

00:00:05.920 we'll also just pivot uh very abruptly because there's no natural transition here

00:00:12.940 to uh this story out of ottawa now we had on the weekend at true north nation the canadian

00:00:18.740 taxpayers federation very generously and graciously sponsor us and our good friend

00:00:23.080 chris sims was there who is our favorite guest every monday because well she's our only guest

00:00:27.800 that's on every monday but she'd be our favorite anyway uh chris always good to talk to you thanks

00:00:31.800 for coming on today thanks so much for having us on andrew and uh i couldn't even find my original

00:00:37.160 backdrop because it's still stuck in the car i had to grab this old one so yeah that was really being

00:00:42.740 it was really great being at that conference well it was uh good to have you there so i we did a

00:00:47.360 home renovation my wife and i uh back in the summer and you know we were trying to you know scrimp and

00:00:52.300 save and you know spend as little as we had to while getting quality i i feel we got a steal

00:00:57.220 looking at the government of canada's reno budget what was this eight million dollars for a barn at

00:01:03.100 rito hall yeah am i misreading this nope you're not uh it's really bad so uh my partner in crime

00:01:11.080 franco terrizano our federal director uh and our investigative journalist ryan thorpe uh they work

00:01:16.520 away there in mordor also known as ottawa in our office and they dug up these documents andrew that

00:01:22.640 showed taxpayers paid more than eight million dollars for what is being referred to as a barn

00:01:29.520 on the grounds of rito hall so rito hall is where our governor general lives right now it's also

00:01:35.760 actually where the prime minister of canada lives to in the rito cottage because 24 sussex is so

00:01:41.200 dilapidated so on those grounds they built this storage facility lack of a better term that is somehow

00:01:50.860 net zero and if this is an indicator of how much net zero is going to cost us as far as the government

00:01:59.820 goes uh folks just put a fork in it we're done we can't afford this they blew eight million dollars

00:02:05.620 on this thing and so it's apparently to store vehicles and to wash vehicles and stuff they started uh

00:02:14.300 shovels in the ground july of 2020 and they took about a year or so to finish it off so just imagine

00:02:20.300 july 2020 this is when we were getting locked down businesses were getting shut down people losing

00:02:26.220 their livelihoods you know everybody getting a lot of people getting uh salary reductions and pay cuts

00:02:31.780 no no the ncc forks out eight million dollars for what is essentially a glorified garage

00:02:39.340 yeah and i mean we've been hearing for uh years now but all the issues with finding a place for the

00:02:47.260 prime minister to live because uh you know 24 sussex drive is like this rat infested i'm not

00:02:52.220 talking about the politicians that live there like literal like rats and the cobwebs and all of that

00:02:57.280 and then you know so they have to stay at rito cottage and but then they're also renovating and

00:03:01.020 building like additions at harrington lake and then so then you hear about this it's like i i you go to

00:03:06.060 northern ontario or rural alberta and you'll find like four guys named chuck that'll build a barn for

00:03:11.180 82 bucks and a two four in a weekend yeah exactly as uh franco put it you know he's not a farmer

00:03:17.800 but our buddies in brooks can sure as heck build you a barn or even a garage put it out to tender

00:03:23.340 let your buddies in brooks uh make a bid on this rather than like you know ottawa's finest yes exactly

00:03:28.120 and see this is the problem you know people can hear eight million dollars and just kind of roll

00:03:32.400 their eyes and let it glaze over no really think about what eight million dollars is in real money

00:03:38.540 if you look up what is often referred to as ottawa's fanciest palatial mansion it's on sale

00:03:44.360 right now on a real estate website it isn't even eight million dollars and we're talking like marble

00:03:50.160 everything jacuzzi tubs like fancy stuff that we'd see on lifestyles of the rich and famous when you

00:03:55.520 and our kids they blew this on a garage so this is just indicative of what the national capital

00:04:02.240 commission is capable of doing when it comes to blowing money and for anybody who lives outside of the

00:04:07.640 ottawa bubble you don't know what the ncc is what it is is basically a glorified parks and rec department

00:04:15.020 that is only in the ottawa gatineau little bubble there it's usually responsible for things like

00:04:21.980 tulip festival and cutting the weeds out of the rito canal but they're also the geniuses that blow this

00:04:29.220 kind of money on a garage they're also the ones who have built a bonus mansion up at harrington lake for

00:04:35.560 who knows who to live in these folks just waste money in spectacular fashion and andrew these are

00:04:41.600 the same people who are crying poor they want to raise they want more taxpayers money they want to

00:04:48.020 spend more taxpayers money on 24 sussex and so this is just a highlight like we have un-money right now

00:04:55.100 we are so deeply in debt we're more than a trillion dollars in debt federally if you and i started

00:05:01.120 counting right now andrew if we had like a barrel of loonies it would take us 30 000 years to count to

00:05:08.940 one trillion that's some great data visualization there uh chris but i know it's insane and look i

00:05:14.760 just to reiterate this point 175 million dollars is what the ncc wants uh to uh renovate or no what

00:05:21.620 they spent uh to renovate and maintain properties sorry 135 for the renovation they want 175 to restore

00:05:28.560 them uh so basically they want you know over 300 million in the span of like 15 20 years uh to do

00:05:35.140 this and i mean the ncc is basically it's like bureaucrats and interior decorators combined like

00:05:41.820 both of whom want to blow more money than a project budget has it's like i never thought that was the

00:05:46.520 most dangerous combination but i think it is interior decorator bureaucrats they have they've created a 1.00

00:05:51.800 monster right because imagine having endless monies right no budget all those home reno shows that you

00:05:57.880 watch right usually they'll stop about 10 minutes in and they'll have that moment where the couple's

00:06:03.660 like oh can we really afford this imagine that part never happening like ever and then just double the

00:06:10.260 cost on top of everything else because it's government that is what we are all paying for

00:06:14.700 with the ncc like for the amount of money that they spend renovating harrington lake to give you an

00:06:20.940 idea you could have bought uh avril lavigne and chad kroger's mansion you could have bought hallie

00:06:27.160 barry's cottage up in the laurentians you could have bought there was a really famous hockey player

00:06:32.140 you and i know about the same amount as of hockey nhl you could have bought his house his fancy mansion

00:06:38.860 in london ontario all combined wait there's a hockey player who has a fancy mansion in london i live

00:06:44.220 london ontario i didn't know apparently there is yeah it's apparently the most expensive house in

00:06:48.780 london ontario and some nhl or dude owns it i stopped following hockey in 1994 well justin beaver

00:06:54.820 lives like you know 45 minutes for me you could have used that one as a right i don't know how much

00:06:58.260 his house is worth though right and so they spent more just renoing one cottage at harrington lake than

00:07:05.160 all of those places i just described to you you could buy them like you could buy them outright

00:07:10.980 so this is where we're highlighting this folks that we just can't afford this and this is the

00:07:16.540 sort of mentality and thinking that is the reason why we are more than a trillion dollars in debt

00:07:21.560 so the next time we're saying folks the government needs to tighten its belt don't let them get away

00:07:27.480 with the idea of okay what do you want to cut first you know health care or education that's just

00:07:32.140 nonsense how about you scrap the ncc when c11 uh goes into full force we'll do like some can con

00:07:39.080 knockoff of property brothers we'll call it property bureaucrats we'll uh just have the ncc go

00:07:44.900 into like little suburban families homes and you know renovate them and uh when the person says well

00:07:49.880 i don't know how we're going to afford that the uh ncc people will be like what do you what i'm sorry

00:07:54.620 i've never heard those words before what do you mean i need my universal translator i actually would

00:07:59.140 watch that show so especially if you've never done you should produce it you should do your own like

00:08:03.980 little uh spoof comedy of like you know the ncc version of a home reno show i i'll i'll chip in a

00:08:09.560 couple hundred bucks for that could you imagine just like franco in like a tool belt with like a

00:08:14.040 level and like a hammer just doing stuff yeah i want franco to do the whole like homes on homes uh

00:08:19.920 you know thing with the you know the overalls and the tool belt uh and then you'll be in there with

00:08:24.760 your hard hat directing it along uh we can get uh you know scott hennig to uh you know go in there

00:08:30.360 with the pallets for the paint and just everyone gets to pick it up i think we're on to something

00:08:34.260 here there'd be so many smashed fingers and bruised toes but it would be funny and we would

00:08:39.820 do it under budget so it would get done it would be just like that simpsons episode where they had

00:08:44.520 a load-bearing poster remember when they rebuilt flanders house and they took that poster down

00:08:49.760 but this you gotta laugh or cry i know folks are watching this going how could you be laughing at

00:08:53.980 eight million dollars it's either bad or cry folks because if you sat down and tried i guarantee

00:09:00.220 you you would not be able to blow even four million dollars building a garage double that

00:09:06.620 and you paid for it so that can get depressing real fast and this is the key bureaucrats and politicians

00:09:13.940 can't stand it when you mock them they can't stand it it really bothers them because if they stay in

00:09:19.940 power long enough they start thinking they're like some duke and you are a feudal serf so if you laugh

00:09:25.960 at them and you point at them and you mock them and ridicule them it really gets under their skin

00:09:30.620 and hopefully we'll be able to get to them and make them change their behavior yeah they're just

00:09:35.720 not used to any real criticism or pushback which is why a lot of these things just uh tend to exist

00:09:43.140 uh without without any sort of challenging and criticism and i think that you know having members

00:09:48.960 of parliament that are going to stand up there and say no is important but it's amazing how much of this

00:09:52.520 is just allowed on a discretionary basis like how much power is kind of relegated to these people

00:09:57.400 and how large their budgets actually are this is when we get into things like permanent government

00:10:02.500 right and it's one of those things where you can hear you know trump talk about the swamp and you can

00:10:08.100 hear about deep state and all that stuff but taking just rinse all the politics out of it for a moment

00:10:12.480 say that it's benevolent for some reason or objective or rational we have a permanent government and it's

00:10:18.920 always there so whenever you hear somebody refer to a deputy minister that doesn't mean the junior

00:10:25.300 backbencher sitting in the house of commons that means a bureaucrat who is heading up a department

00:10:30.740 that bureaucrat almost always is paid way more than that elected politician cabinet minister

00:10:38.180 okay and nobody knows their name they can almost never be fired and the ability to hold them to account

00:10:45.900 is almost impossible so and they have a ton of staff and underlings under them that's the department

00:10:52.280 side of things and no matter who gets elected through the revolving election door okay the

00:10:58.080 bureaucrats in that department they see you as a johnny come lightly if they don't like dealing with you

00:11:03.860 they put their feet up and they water a house plant enter and they wait they wait for a change of

00:11:08.780 government because they see themselves as the permanent state it was wonderful to see you saturday at

00:11:14.940 true north nation you representing ctf and then you also had our friend liam dunn who was there

00:11:19.200 with generation screwed uh wait okay chris i've got the name for your show okay generation screwdriver 0.50

00:11:27.940 it's the canadian taxpayers federation fixer upper show generation screwdriver okay you did it you coined

00:11:35.580 it go buy the domain i'm gonna like i'm gonna do the ezra levant thing and like book the domain name

00:11:40.900 right away just in case because you know i need to have that it's all yours okay everyone that's

00:11:45.720 coming soon to ctf and uh you'll of course learn about the show because with c11 it'll be forced

00:11:50.700 to your home page as uh authentic canadian content all right uh chris sims always good to talk to you

00:11:55.820 we will check in next monday take care andrew thanks for listening to the andrew lawton show

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Juno News - October 29, 2023

Feds spend $8 million on storage barn (ft. Kris Sims)

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