Juno News - February 07, 2025


Global Affairs Canada caught trying to hide wasteful spending


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

139.72145

Word Count

418

Sentence Count

29


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I just have to tell you about this unbelievable story that is breaking overnight and has been
00:00:06.680 uncovered by the many, many wonderful people on the internet that exposes one thing, that our
00:00:12.280 government is lying to us. So they're taxing Canadians, they're taxing more than ever,
00:00:18.060 taking more and more of our hard-earned money away, and they're wasting it on programs that
00:00:23.600 are patently ridiculous and woke and absurd even for this liberal government. And of course, as
00:00:31.660 soon as Canadians start to notice this ridiculous waste, the government tries to back down, try to
00:00:37.400 hide their scandal spending and try to lie about what it is that they found. Well, not so fast
00:00:43.480 because we are onto them. So here's what happened. It started when Conservative MP and from Calgary
00:00:50.060 of Majumdar, posted the following on X. This happened yesterday afternoon at around 149 Eastern
00:00:56.480 on Thursday. And he wrote this, NDP liberals have wiped Global Affairs Canada's project database
00:01:03.880 clean, hiding where your taxpayer dollars are going. What was once public is now erased. No
00:01:11.320 transparency, no accountability. Really, truly unbelievable. And so to that tweet, I asked the
00:01:18.640 following question. I said, what kind of crazy, woke nonsense are they funding and trying to
00:01:26.960 hide? Well, at 2.10 p.m. yesterday, our friends over at Canada Proud posted this story as news.
00:01:34.760 This is what they wrote. Breaking. Global Affairs Canada has suddenly wiped their entire public
00:01:41.180 database of foreign aid spending, and the data is no longer available to the public. This is a big
00:01:48.760 deal, folks. This is a big story. So two hours later, two hours after Canada Proud posted that,
00:01:55.740 two hours, two and a half hours after Shubma Jamdar posted on X, this is at 4 19 p.m. Eastern
00:02:02.500 yesterday, Development Canada, which is the Department of Global Affairs Canada's X account
00:02:09.120 dedicated to international development.
00:02:12.600 Well, this is what they posted to try to clarify the matters.
00:02:15.640 They wrote, Global Affairs Canada's project browser
00:02:19.400 is currently experiencing technical difficulties
00:02:22.680 and we are working to resolve this issue.
00:02:25.680 The claims that it was taken down on purpose are false.
00:02:30.940 Okay, convenient timing, wouldn't you say?
00:02:34.240 At a time when Elon Musk is exposing the absolute rot
00:02:38.880 and ideological radicalism of the programs over at USAID, suddenly the Canadian equivalent just
00:02:47.480 happens to have technical difficulties and their website is down. And this is when everything
00:02:53.440 starts to backfire on the Canadian government and its woke department of global affairs.