Juno News - Has Canada’s navy gone woke？

00:00:00.000 we are going to be speaking with formal neighbor officer andrew mcgavelry to talk about concerns

00:00:10.400 about the royal canadian navy who are planning to do away with its official marching song

00:00:16.120 over concerns of its lyrics which refer to colonialism and lack examples of diversity

00:00:22.560 we've heard it all before now this song the british song heart of oak dates back to 1759

00:00:28.860 more than a century before canada's confederation but of course in our efforts to erase canadian

00:00:34.160 history they will be doing away with it andrew thank you so much for being here today i just

00:00:39.660 want to start off the hop by asking you now this marching song how often was this something that

00:00:45.320 you actually used perform sang listen to while you were in the royal canadian navy so i served for 12

00:00:53.700 years uh out of sea at esquimalt on the west coast uh it's not something that i remember being used

00:00:59.620 too often that's usually during uh parades and that sort of thing um but it's uh it's not like a it's

00:01:07.480 not a huge deal within the royal canadian navy you know we focus on other things that being at sea but

00:01:13.460 it is used and it's something it's part of the tradition of the rcn that goes back you know over

00:01:18.840 a hundred years is it a song that when you heard during these parades that you mentioned is it

00:01:23.880 something that would sort of strike feelings of patriotism within you feelings of pride or would

00:01:30.540 you say that you were kind of indifferent about it so i was personally indifferent there are people

00:01:35.120 out there and sailors that you know where it would have stuck uh struck pride and and that sort of

00:01:40.560 thing uh but i think it just it contributes to the larger picture of the complete erasure of

00:01:46.620 of the tradition within the navy uh going back our ties to the brits and and what our you know small

00:01:54.740 country has uh accomplished uh over the past uh you know 100 years with the rcn and it's just

00:02:02.400 continued to erase that history so there will be people who don't care uh there will be people that

00:02:07.780 are upset about the removal of the song so the royal canadian navy says that they are going to look at

00:02:15.120 replacing the song because it includes references to colonialism and slavery and slavery rather and

00:02:22.320 language that is not representative of all those who serve in today's navy what's your response to

00:02:27.720 this so they they've been going through this you know modernization of of the navy from the changing of

00:02:34.980 the uh the ranks and the you know all the the verbiage the per system which is the the personnel

00:02:43.500 evaluation report and you know just just land acknowledgments right so when i was doing the

00:02:48.940 ceremonies with uh uh you know the enrollment ceremonies because i was in recruiting my past couple

00:02:54.760 years you had to do these uh land acknowledgments and you couldn't use you know gendered language

00:03:00.860 and there was a lot of restrictions so uh that that's like demoralizing you know where they're

00:03:05.880 focusing their efforts on just a bunch of nonsense when there's so many more problems uh out there

00:03:11.700 within the rcn that they could be focusing on so it's you know like me like i said me me personally

00:03:17.460 it's not you know too big of a deal but they have been attacking tradition of the rcn as well as the

00:03:22.960 canarian forces as a whole and that's what's leading to uh the the crisis in recruiting and retention

00:03:29.240 and i believe it's a factor in you know why we're over 20 000 regular force troops short of our full

00:03:35.660 fighting strength so when you talk about it just speaks to the fact that they have been attacking

00:03:41.260 our history and our tradition and you know the lack of recruits that's producing um what are some

00:03:46.300 other examples you seem to think that this has been a recurring issue within the royal canadian navy

00:03:51.460 what are some other ways that you feel that the navy and the canadian military has been attacked

00:03:56.480 um and that's lead that's led to this struggle to find recruitment so there's a couple things the

00:04:03.000 the first thing is the introduction of dei so diversity equity and inclusion and the adoption of

00:04:11.280 using critical theory and critical race theory to form uh military doctrine and policy they've come

00:04:17.660 out and admitted that they've done that you know so when i was in you know they brought in a you know

00:04:23.560 they had to do this you know dei training session they brought in a lady from dnd she basically called 1.00

00:04:31.540 she attacked christians she attacked uh men and she attacked white people and and basically uh you 0.53

00:04:38.500 know they called us all uh colonizers um and it was just uh it was just demoralizing and so you know

00:04:46.360 that the first article i did about this with the epoch times back in uh march of 2022 this is what i

00:04:53.540 called you know the managed decline they're doing this on purpose they're purging uh patriotic men and

00:04:59.520 women uh from the canadian armed forces and they're burning it down uh so it's something called

00:05:04.680 entryism so they're purging everyone they've then changed the uh promotion system and your annual

00:05:12.500 reporting system from the per system to the par system and this par system one of the promotional

00:05:18.240 criteria is you know how inclusive we are so if you drink the liberal party kool-aid you know we're

00:05:23.800 going to promote you and if you don't uh you won't get in and uh get a promotion so this is all being

00:05:29.700 done on purpose they want to build down or burn down the canadian armed forces and then build it back

00:05:34.400 as this inclusive uh woke completely ineffective fighting force um but that's not what their priority

00:05:41.580 is it's not defending the country it's building this into a complete you know woke uh laughing stock

00:05:48.180 of the country you know it's interesting you say they are tearing down people who are christians

00:05:53.700 people who are white individuals who are men i would assume that those categories make up most of the

00:06:00.660 canadian navy and the canadian army you know it's been a number of years since you were in it but you

00:06:05.400 obviously still have close relationships with those involved what's the morale like right now

00:06:09.740 so morale has never been lower and there's a reason you know there's uh with my organization we get

00:06:17.240 sent a ton of tips you know pictures documents uh that we sort of share to sort of expose what's uh

00:06:23.740 happening uh the reason there's a reason that attrition doesn't is at 9.2 that's the last number we

00:06:29.820 had from a couple months ago and you know they're trying to blame everything else except

00:06:34.740 their dei and woke policy so it's bad right now with 9.2 however you know the the g water global war 0.62

00:06:43.860 on terror uh terror veterans they're going to be approaching their 25 year uh pensions within the

00:06:50.240 next couple years i know guys who are senior who are discounting on the days uh for them to to pop

00:06:57.220 smoke and and retire so it's going to get even worse over the next three to five years unless there's

00:07:03.640 drastic changes that are made and uh you know boost morale and get them new equipment get them the

00:07:09.500 proper uh training and build that esprit de corps and that cohesion uh within their your fighting units

00:07:16.780 that is what you have to do wow you know i suspect that with the liberal government's efforts to so

00:07:22.720 strongly attack what they believe is called toxic masculinity just strong men it's impacting the

00:07:28.920 canadian navy the military but i also suspect that it's impacting uh canadian border service agents

00:07:34.640 and we know that there is a need for more hiring there we were just talking about this on the show

00:07:39.000 today given trump's 25 tariffs that he's going to be imposing one of the things the liberal government

00:07:44.480 could do is they could strengthen our border our shared border with the united states of america put

00:07:50.160 more border agents there but i can't help but wonder if they're attacking the strong men that we need to

00:07:56.620 fill these roles are they even going to be able to fill those drops should they you know decide to

00:08:01.280 spend more and and to actually seek to recruit individuals

00:08:05.140 yeah so it's the in terms of recruiting uh your highest per capita uh for canadian forces recruiting

00:08:15.360 is from rural areas okay the reason being is one uh you can uh kids uh young men and women with

00:08:23.880 grade 10 education can join to become infantiers and cooks uh two uh you can uh there's good like

00:08:31.540 less job opportunity in these rural areas okay and three um there's jobs within the community armed

00:08:37.760 forces that uh you know attract people who live in rural areas such as shooting guns you know driving

00:08:44.660 av atvs uh being out of the bush or being out in the bush so what they've done is with this sort of

00:08:51.860 woke dei stuff they've killed completely alienated their natural base of recruiting right because

00:08:58.400 young men and women from rural areas generally conservative uh do not want to join with uh with

00:09:03.940 sort of woke nonsense and so the highest so it's not the most but when i was in recruiting the highest

00:09:11.140 per capita so the best bang for the buck that the canadian forces got was from a rural areas which are

00:09:17.720 generally conservative so they completely uh alienated them now in there's a great podcaster

00:09:23.700 out there called andy stump the ex navy seal and he was asked he was at a leadership conference and he

00:09:29.180 was asked about diversity in the seals and if there was impacting operations and his quote which i

00:09:33.860 remember verbatim is the best of i i've ever heard he said well are we aiming for diversity or are we aiming

00:09:41.840 to achieve to achieve a standard that is dictated by what we encounter on the battlefield and the

00:09:48.180 battlefield doesn't give a crap about diversity and that's exactly what it is and unfortunately

00:09:52.840 you know the senior officers like from like general rick hillier of uh you know was back of the chief of

00:09:59.560 defense staff back in the 90s uh he made a great comment he said you know we're not just some uh other

00:10:05.420 you know some public service department we are the canadian forces and we are in the business of killing

00:10:09.800 people and they've got so far away from that they've been put in a very woke uh jenny kerrigan kerrigan

00:10:17.660 who drinks the liberal party kool-aid and so there has to be wholesale changes to the culture of the

00:10:24.580 canadian forces and they have to bring back some toxic mass masculinity because the primary role of

00:10:30.380 the infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy bring back toxic masculinity maybe that can be your

00:10:36.300 next t-shirt i just thought that this would be a fun little anecdote for the audience but before we

00:10:40.680 got started we were chatting and it turns out that those maple mega hats that you guys have been seeing

00:10:46.480 everywhere i've been seeing everywhere andrew is actually the person who's been supplying them

00:10:51.120 online he says that his products have never been in higher demand what other types of products do you

00:10:56.520 sell online and where can my audience find your merch uh so you can check it out at uh maple mega dot

00:11:04.200 shop so dot shop and we're putting up new lines uh uh every week and we got all sorts of uh funny hats

00:11:11.820 and things that are out there that are mocking uh the uh the liberals now just just to caveat that i'm just

00:11:17.580 uh sort of helping out i'm not necessarily only there's a young man named aj who's who's running it and i'm

00:11:24.680 just uh purchased some of the merch and shared it around and it's uh it's pretty funny and it's

00:11:29.820 really taking off that's great well i spend way too much of my hard-earned valueless canadian dollar

00:11:36.560 on political merch so i will definitely be checking out your store andrew thanks so much for joining us

00:11:41.940 today we look forward to following your work and some of the more stories that you have on the

00:11:46.280 corruption going on within the woke canadian military and navy thank you for having me

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Juno News - December 02, 2024

Has Canada’s navy gone woke？

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