00:09:27.400He was he ambushed me. He initiated the physical contact. I have no interest in getting physical with anyone, for goodness sakes. I'm certainly not going to touch a female cabinet minister who I tower over. I just was asking questions.
00:09:47.700But it seems, Andrew, in Canada of 2024, impolite and insensitive questions, those are verboten.
00:09:56.860You can get arrested, I guess, for wrong think.
00:10:00.720I mean, I liken Canada to a banana republic, except, of course, we don't grow bananas in Canada, Andrew, as you know.
00:10:07.040So let's call it a maple syrup republic under Trudeau.
00:10:10.740But the thing is, I think, you know, if you're not an admirer of Rebel News or Ezra Levent or myself, that's fine. But surely there should be people out there, especially in our industry of journalism, that stand up or should be standing up and saying, this is wrong.
00:10:33.600This is verboten. But the mainstream media, in Canada at least, has been silent. And this is a story in terms of Twitter impressions. I think it's over 10 million as we speak. It's absolutely shocking.
00:10:48.860And that was kind of the same treatment the mainstream media gave to what happened in December of 2021.
00:10:58.260They either ignored it or almost came up with a conspiratorial theory.
00:11:03.580That was David Aiken's mantra at Global saying that this was all pre-planned.
00:14:37.560And, you know, there are other cameras.
00:14:39.320We've got an appeal out to anyone else who filmed this.
00:14:41.600And, of course, the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts, they have closed circuit security surveillance as well.
00:14:51.280I'm sure as part of our lawsuit, we'll be asking for that footage as well.
00:14:56.600Yeah, you mentioned the lawsuit. So let me ask you about this, David. I saw your boss, Rebel Commander Ezra Levant, tweet this morning that you're suing Freeland, the RCMP, and York Regional Police, as I understand. What's happening there?
00:15:11.440I believe there's four things we're suing for, including false arrest, Melissa's prosecution, and garden variety assault on me.
00:15:20.360Because, you know, far from the RCMP's narrative, he did the assault.
00:15:26.000I wasn't under the arrest at the time, nor was I, you know, and Andrew, I just want to go out on a limb here.
00:15:32.080If I was some guy wearing a balaclava and wearing camouflage and it looked like I had something that resembled a handgun or a rifle, I can see a preemptive strike by law enforcement. I can. But, you know, Andrew, they know who we are. I've got the Rebel News mic flash out. I wear my trademark hat. And they know I'm not there wearing trouble on my shirt. I'm not there to hurt anyone. So they can't play that card. And I can tell you, Andrew, if
00:16:02.080If any of your viewers have it in their heart to support our case against this draconian fascism we saw on display in Richmond Hill,
00:16:11.840if they can kindly go to standwithdavid.com, that's standwithdavid.com.
00:16:16.840And I know things are tough these days, but if you have a few extra bucks, we crowdfund our revenue.
00:16:23.120As you know, we don't take any government funding.
00:16:26.180and uh if they can go to standwithdavid.com make a donation that would be greatly appreciated
00:16:32.700and i just to confirm they released you without laying any charges so so this egregious assault
00:16:39.360on a police officer by their own admission either didn't happen or didn't rise to the level of
00:16:43.720needing to charge you you know absolutely and as the footage goes on you see me eventually getting
00:16:50.620loaded into a police SUV, a York Regional Police SUV. The cops were gracious enough to
00:16:57.820handcuff me, take the handcuffs off behind my back and put them in the front because I told
00:17:05.320them with the cramped space in that cruiser, I have double hip replacement. This would be
00:17:12.300not safe for me. And so at least they gave me that little mercy. But here's the funny thing.
00:17:18.000It wasn't, as the saying goes, not so funny at the time.
00:17:23.180They were telling me, we're going to drive you to the police station on Major McKenzie Drive for processing.
00:17:31.280And then they had another officer come up to them.
00:17:34.340There was some kind of conversation, and they waited for a while.
00:17:37.240And then they drove off, and they started going northbound.
00:17:42.660And since I live in Richmond Hill, Andrew, I know the station's southbound.
00:18:03.620But it turned out to be a good news story because they said, we've been told the Mountie in question has declined to press charges.
00:18:12.280i guess he had a come to jesus moment maybe he saw some cell phone footage uh because this is
00:18:17.800about almost an hour after the incident so we're just going to release you here so it was like
00:18:22.500catch and release like dump you out on the curb somewhere basically and i and i walked back to
00:18:28.120the performing arts center not to go inside even though we were invited as media because according
00:18:33.480to the police uh myself and lincoln had been trespassed which makes no sense because if there's
00:18:38.400no charges. What's the issue? So we had to do the rest of the reporting on the sidewalk. And I got
00:18:45.020to tell you, Andrew, our original goal of going there, we didn't even know Blackface and company
00:18:51.120were going to be there yesterday. I was at the first commemoration ceremony for that Ukrainian
00:18:56.560airline that was shot down. Let's keep in mind, Andrew, 179 innocent civilians plus one unborn
00:19:05.160baby, which, of course, the media will never list as a homicide. That included 55 Canadians,
00:19:11.540by the way, most of them of Persian descent. And when I went in 2020 to that very same venue,
00:19:16.940the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts, there were politicians of every level,
00:19:20.800every political stripe except one. And that would be none other than the liberal MP for Richmond
00:19:27.340Hill, Majid Johari. If you can imagine, Andrew, Majid Johari supports the Iranian regime. He's
00:19:34.720had meetings with Iranian government officials in Canada. And it's so beyond the pale for me.
00:19:41.440I've lived in Richmond Hill for 25 years. I can tell you it's a significant Persian minority
00:19:46.780there. I believe it's as high as 14%. All the Persians I've met there have been wonderful
00:19:54.640people. I go to Persian shops, Persian restaurants. They're typically people that fled the regime
00:20:00.560post-1979, the revolution. They're getting away from tyranny. And imagine, Andrew,
00:20:09.980that somehow, some way, that the member of parliament for that riding of Richmond Hill
00:20:16.400is a pro-regime person. Now, he didn't show up at the first commemoration. And I had people there
00:20:22.980tell me that was for his own safety because there were so many people who had relatives that died
00:20:28.960on that plane. And for him to show his face would be egregious. So that was really why I was there.
00:20:34.860I knew there'd be politicians there, but would Majid Johari show up? Well, not only did he show
00:20:39.640up, evidently, because again, I couldn't get in, but Trudeau himself. And Andrew, talk about the
00:20:47.360continuation of lies. It's been four years since that egregious incident where Canadians were
00:20:54.660murdered in cold blood. The IRGC is still not a terrorist group, not recognized as one, I should
00:21:01.920say, by the Canadian government. Trump recognized it as one. When Biden came into power, I thought
00:21:07.900I'd never say anything positive about Biden, but he didn't take them off the list. So why is it
00:21:12.820that they're not on the list? And even if you look at the mealy mouth statement Trudeau said,
00:21:17.460it was along the lines, we'll look at ways of putting them on. Look at ways you've really got
00:21:23.460an unofficial majority government you can do it today you know if you wanted to i i gotta jump in
00:21:30.580here david i i should also point out i promised i would let you go at 120 at your request and you
00:21:35.300were the one that took us over so uh that's on you sir but uh you had some good commentary and
00:21:39.560i should say majid johari has denied these allegations which were i believe originally
00:21:44.700made by an iranian uh journalist that he had had this uh relationship with iranian intelligence he
00:21:50.140says no he's he's not loyal to the regime but i would encourage people to look up reporting on him
00:21:55.360in the past david menzies glad you got the cuffs off always good to talk to you sir well thank you
00:21:59.900and one last thing if majid johari is denying it this man is such a liar andrew he will spit in
00:22:06.280your face and tell you it's raining okay so okay you're trying to get us sued david i was trying
00:22:11.000to get us through the exit here now i i should say we i am not making an accusation that he is a liar
00:22:16.840But I do think that if he has nothing to hide, he should make himself available to independent journalists and not have the police stand in the way as Ms. Freeland did there yesterday.
00:22:32.540And let me just say here, like, I don't buy, I don't like this whole, well, maybe you don't like him, but I don't like it.
00:22:38.620Like, he's getting support from a lot of people that hate Rebel right now.
00:22:42.920And you know it pains them to have to do that.
00:22:45.900I mean, Pierre Polyev, I'm not saying he hates rebel, but for the conservative leader to go to bat for a rebel journalist is actually quite a significant development here.
00:22:54.120And let me also say it's very convenient.
00:22:56.080I don't actually believe it's exculpatory on law enforcement that they are not charging David,
00:23:02.580because what they were trying to do was prevent him from asking Chrystia Freeland a question.
00:23:09.860So when they say you're under arrest, that gives them license to manhandle him, to shove
00:23:15.020him up against a wall, to take him away and drop him off in the parking lot of a school.
00:23:21.160Well, this event that he was going to report on is underway.
00:23:25.080And it reminds me of during the 2019 election, I was banned from covering the liberal campaign.
00:23:31.700I was banned from the liberal campaign bus and airplane.
00:23:34.860And what happened was I just like, Candace Malcolm and I had worked out this little plan
00:23:38.940where I just like rented a car and booked last minute flights and followed them along.
00:23:42.820And at one point we were in, they had been in Hamilton and we were driving,
00:23:47.440but I didn't know where they were going because they didn't publish the itinerary.
00:23:52.340I was just following the campaign bus to figure out where the next campaign stop was.
00:23:56.700And at a certain point, a member of the Hamilton police service that was escorting the bus
00:24:01.840pulled me over, did not ticket me, did not charge me, but just kept me at the roadside for long
00:24:10.000enough that the bus was long gone and I had no idea where it was going. Because the goal was
00:24:15.560never to accuse me of committing a crime or breaking the law. The goal was to get me away
00:24:20.560from the person that they were trying to protect. Not protect from a safety threat, but protect
00:24:25.940from prying eyes of media, and that was what happened in the case of Chrystia Freeland.
00:24:32.820They never thought, they never believed for a moment that David had assaulted a police officer
00:24:38.120or anyone. That was completely made up. It was bogus. They knew it, but they needed a pretext
00:24:43.440to pull him away so that she didn't have to deal with his questions. It was shameful,
00:24:49.660and it was humiliating for members of law enforcement, many of whom have emailed me
00:24:55.040in the course of the last, I don't know, 18 hours or whatever, and said how disgraceful they find
00:25:00.000this display was. I am the president, in addition to my role at True North, of the Independent Press
00:25:05.220Gallery. We put out a statement last night saying this is egregious. It was shocking, although
00:25:10.140sadly not altogether unsurprising given everything we've seen. So we will follow this story as it
00:25:15.880progresses. I would love to see the Liberal government say this is not what we think should
00:25:19.760happen to journalists, but I am not holding my breath or else I would be turning blue within a
00:25:24.860couple of minutes time here. You may have seen yesterday at True North, my colleague Cosman
00:25:29.600Georgia published what I thought was a tremendously researched story. One of these hidden in plain
00:25:34.860sight reports. It was based on the Canadian Military Journal, which is the official
00:25:39.620publication. It's more academic in nature, but the official publication of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:25:46.720And while it's not a product, it's not a communications product of the Department of
00:25:50.720national defense. It is official and it is where the military gets a lot of its theoretical and
00:25:57.060practical material from, clearly. Because what we saw in this issue is it was dedicated to
00:26:03.460unmasking and exposing patriarchy and whiteness and white supremacy. I believe we have the table
00:26:10.840of contents for you here. This is one issue, the summer issue, getting to the root of the problem.
00:26:16.840There is an article about interrogating whiteness and power in the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:26:22.340There is an article about whether supporting military families is reinforcing patriarchy.
00:26:28.120There is an article about gender identity and military culture.
00:26:33.100There are articles about women's experiences, feminism, and the military.
00:26:38.060But the bulk of this is saying that the military is upholding white supremacy and patriarchy.
00:26:43.640This idea that the military is clearly behind and you wonder why they're having so much difficulty with morale because they're telling all the men and all the white people that, well, you guys just don't really matter.
00:26:54.980You are you people don't want to be too gendered about this.
00:26:57.600I wanted to get some veteran perspective on this because, again, I've heard so many members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:27:04.000My father is a veteran and I know many people in my family and in your families and many of you listening have served in the Armed Forces as well.
00:27:12.000I wanted to welcome into the show Tom Marazzo, who you've heard from on a number of occasions, a former captain with the Armed Forces and also the author of the People's Emergency Act, as well as Andrew McGilvery, who's the president of Veterans for Freedom.
00:27:26.160Drew and Tom, it's great to talk to you both. Thanks for being with us here and thanks for your service.
00:27:31.060I mean, let me just ask first and foremost here, how does this publication and how the military has gone on this issue make you feel about your service, this body that you devoted a chunk of your lives to?
00:28:14.100This isn't the country that I signed up to defend and ultimately was willing to risk my life for.
00:28:20.220And it's completely disrespectful to the troops and the soldiers that are still in there.
00:28:25.160and you know this has been a trajectory they've been going down for the past couple months so it
00:28:32.080just is what it is unfortunately and i'll put the same question to you tom well i i do find it
00:28:38.320completely uh offensive to be perfectly honest you know my time in the military and i did 25 years
00:28:45.700total i was a reservist and i was a regular force member and you know the vast majority
00:28:51.840of people that join the canadian armed forces are rural members some small towns but the vast
00:28:59.560majority of people that join um are caucasian uh males and females of a christian ethnicity or
00:29:08.860christian uh descent and you know they're they're very patriotic canadians and you know
00:29:18.800this idea of whiteness like it's how how do you justify the concept of white supremacy when
00:29:25.380your entire year unit that you're in let's say as an example your entire platoon or your company or
00:29:31.720even your regiment when the vast majority of the people in there are caucasians who are you know
00:29:37.760come from a christian background and i'm not suggesting that everybody's religious i'm saying
00:29:43.780that their their religious uh morals and ethics and their values derive from a christian upbringing
00:29:50.980in a largely christian society so where does the white supremacy come in when you look around and
00:29:57.300everybody's white like who are we supremacist against like it's a it's it's kind of offensive
00:30:04.820to sit there and say that there's this um this you know racism or deep um dislike for somebody
00:30:13.860who doesn't look like you based on your skin color in the canadian forces when the reality is
00:30:20.180if anybody who's done basic training knows your personality is stripped down to the bare essence
00:30:26.340of who you are as a canadian and you're rebuilt as a soldier or a sailor or an airman you're not
00:30:33.380rebuilt as a christian or a muslim or you're not from india or whatever like these things are very
00:30:41.140blurred to paint this very nefarious picture that doesn't make any sense because from you know as
00:30:46.900far as i'm concerned and everything i was ever taught in the military you're a soldier first
00:30:51.940that's what matters and can you be relied upon uh to defend the lives of your brothers and sisters
00:30:59.460and arms nobody's looking at your ethnicity nobody's looking at your religion nobody's
00:31:04.740looking at your whiteness they're looking at uh you know in the case of the army they're looking
00:31:10.660at a guy who or girl who's you know camouflaged uh and are they competent and willing and able to do
00:31:18.340the business of war the business of violence not the business of social engineering and this is
00:31:25.300what a lot of this crap that we're seeing is all about it's not about warfare it's not about
00:31:29.940defending canada it's trying to hypnotize certain portions of canadians to vote liberal and i hope
00:31:37.540we can get into that uh discussion as well yeah and i but i i wanted to ask because you you raised
00:31:42.500i think an important point there i mean my understanding of this is not someone who served
00:31:46.580but someone who's had family members who have is that uniformity was always a very core part
00:31:52.580of the military and and it was meant to basically be exactly what you've just described there your
00:31:57.780role has to be the uniform not who you are as an individual when you're serving and i think it was
00:32:03.300two years ago that they significantly dropped the standards on uniformity where you could have
00:32:08.980uh dyed hair and face tattoos no offense to people with dyed hair and face tattoos but
00:32:14.260uh well i mean a little bit i'm okay offending a little bit of the face tattoo crowd but
00:32:17.940The thing about that is that here we have the military and I understand why, because if you have no recruitment and you have no people there, I understand the impulse to just start dropping all these barriers.
00:32:28.660But I think it has an inverse relationship because all of a sudden you change it so much that the people you want in there are saying, I don't know if I want to be a part of that anymore.
00:32:37.240But it seems like the military has gone along with this very woke academic idea that everyone needs to be this celebrated individual snowflake, which is a complete reversal.
00:32:49.620Correct me if I'm wrong here, Drew, but of what the military has always been about and what it needs to be to be a success at its goals.
00:32:57.640Yeah. So ultimately, there's a guy named Andy Stumpf who does a podcast called Cleared Hot.
00:33:03.060And when he was asked about diversity in the SEALs, and he felt that they were, you know, did they lose anything by the lack of diversity?
00:33:10.900And his answer, which I remembered verbatim because it was the perfect answer, he said, well, I don't know.
00:33:17.060He goes, are we aiming for diversity or are we aiming to achieve a standard?
00:33:21.660And that standard is dictated to us by what we encounter on the battlefield.
00:33:26.300And the battlefield doesn't give a crap about diversity, which is ultimately the best answer I've ever heard.
00:33:32.400and it it's when you get into into uniform you you get discriminated against generally in three
00:33:41.140ways okay it's your element so either army navy or air force your trade and your rank and that's
00:33:48.920just to build a spree de corps and there's banter and that sort of thing no one cares about the
00:33:54.140color of your skin or what's between your legs we care about what is between your ears so all
00:34:00.500this stuff that's happening with academia and what they're doing it's being funded by the government
00:34:05.380and what we're what's worrisome is we're seeing a similarity between uh what's happening what's
00:34:11.700happened in china with the ccp and what's happening here and how i what i mean is that in china uh the
00:34:19.540their military is beholden to the party it's beholden to the ccp and not the state and we're
00:34:25.860starting to see that here in canada is that the canary forces is becoming beholden to the liberal
00:34:30.900party and their ideology and not the state this idea that we're seeing because the the the whole
00:34:37.780like we're a systemically racist institution that goes back a couple of years now this article that
00:34:43.460or the series of articles from the summer that true north reported on yesterday was this really
00:34:49.220a creation of the last couple of years or did you start to see this both of you near the end of your
00:34:54.580service and i don't know what years you left but had you started to see shades of this trend then
00:34:59.620or has it really just been a blunt instrument as of late yeah so i i can i'll speak to that just
00:35:06.340ahead of tom because i know he got out a while ago i i just got out just over two uh just over
00:35:11.780two years ago and we lose drew i hear him i don't see him i don't see him either it might i might
00:35:18.740come back i mean there's a snowstorm and it was part of that of ontario all right well i'll go to
00:35:24.340you uh first tom while we're getting drew sorted out so in the early 90s like i left the military
00:35:30.180in 2015 but even in the early to mid 90s we had this uh training program it was called sharp it
00:35:37.780was an acronym for sexual harassment and all these things we had to undergo a lot of this training
00:35:43.380but it was interesting because the the training was put on by non non-veterans or non currently
00:35:52.460serving military they were you know academic think tank people coming in and trying to
00:35:57.620reshape the culture of the military yet none of the people who were responsible for creating this
00:36:04.780training ever served in the military so they don't understand the culture you know and what
00:36:10.060found really interesting about um your colleague in the article that that was was put out you know
00:36:16.140you've got these academics who are academically tied to the defense academy in kingston yet i
00:36:22.620see no evidence that they actually ever served in uniform so how is it that they are trying to
00:36:28.060reshape currently the culture of the military we're in in the past they've never even been
00:36:33.580part of it and this is a problem when academics try to get involved in a culture that they don't
00:36:38.460fully appreciate because they haven't even so much as done basic training now i've done basic
00:36:44.060training once in the reserves and then as an officer i had to redo it and yes there are
00:36:49.020training evolutions you go through um annually there are some things but it's never been as
00:36:56.140obvious and egregious as it is right now where they've gone so far to attack things like
00:37:03.260you know even masculinity i mean i'm sorry but we we need we need aggressive men and women
00:37:10.300in uniform who do the business of violence okay and i find you know you you raise the example of
00:37:18.220the uh you know the tattoos and the dyed hair and even the nail polish and earring in my day that
00:37:23.580was absolutely unheard of okay you you had to be focused on the business of war not the the
00:37:30.940the business of social engineering like we're seeing right now and yes this has slowly been
00:37:37.340creeping in over over years but since this current liberal government has gone in they
00:37:42.780have completely terraformed the canadian armed forces into something very um non non-serious
00:37:50.380non-serious i mean if canada were to go to war today who in the hell would be intimidated by
00:37:56.140the fact that the canadians are now coming i want to leave this one last point um you know rommel
00:38:02.220had said the perfect military the the most deadly military in the world would have been german
00:38:08.380officers american equipment and canadian soldiers and i don't think that equation holds true any
00:38:15.580longer unfortunately yeah and to your point about masculinity i i'm not sure any afghan afghan girls
00:38:22.300that had an education for the first time in their lives
00:38:24.960because of the Canadian military and other allied forces there.
00:38:28.100I don't think they were complaining about toxic masculinity
00:38:30.120when the soldiers came to town against the Taliban,
00:38:36.300Drew, you got cut off by technology there.
00:38:38.620We were talking about kind of when this started,
00:38:40.840and I'm curious about your experience here.
00:38:43.160Yeah, so I got out just over two years ago,
00:38:46.080and the anti-racism in DEI training was just starting to trickle in.
00:38:50.700And, you know, I was someone who was told that I had to go into the communist style struggle sessions where they said, oh, y'all, white men, bad, not even be putting on by current military members.
00:39:02.740It was being put on by, you know, government, you know, their bureaucrats and stuff who were coming down and doing this training in academia.
00:39:09.500And really, in six years, we have seen three instances of right wing extremism or white supremacy in the calf.
00:39:16.940It was Patrick, Matthews, Boris, Mihaljevic, and then the Proud Boy incident in 2017.
00:39:24.440From my last year at the recruiting center in Toronto, we saw three instances of attacks on our recruiting center.
00:39:31.040Two were by, I guess, want to say jihadi-type attacks, and one was done by a left-wing Antifa woman.
00:39:39.440And the media wasn't down there reporting on those, but you can sure believe if it was some sort of white supremacist attack on a recruiting center, they would have been down there reporting it.
00:39:49.680So they've been pushing this bogus narrative for a while.
00:39:53.220And you can talk to any current serving member where Al's at an all-time low because of these commie-style struggle sessions is being forced on them.
00:40:02.480That's not what the job of the military is.
00:40:04.880if you ask an infant here, their job is to close with and destroy the enemy. They don't care who's
00:40:10.460beside them as long as they're well trained and they can trust them with their lives. So this has
00:40:14.640been coming and it's going to continue to come. And there's no pushback from senior leadership
00:40:20.940within the military. I have an email chain saved that I had with the vice admiral where he was
00:40:26.220telling me to read anti-racist by Ibrahim X. Kendi. And I read it and I pushed back to him and
00:40:32.940this goes completely against the ethos of the Canadian Armed Forces so we're going to continue
00:40:38.860to see this and we get all sorts of tips and emails from serving members telling us the stuff
00:40:44.940that they have to go through and that's why they're the attrition rate is three times the regular rate
00:40:50.700and that's why guys like me who released earlier getting out because it's just uh it's just nonsense
00:40:56.620and it's uh we're not like a the care forces in the passport office okay we are a completely
00:41:02.060different entity in society and uh there's just so much creep uh that's stuff that's crept in
00:41:08.820from the likes of you know barbara perry and um the ontario technical institute and they just gave
00:41:15.400a bunch of money to a man named andy knight who was a university of alberta professor who's going
00:41:20.220to study white white supremacy in the canary forces so it's just a false and bogus narrative
00:41:26.340in my opinion. Is your sense, Tom, that the military leadership have bought into this,
00:41:32.300or are they just basically taking their marching orders from cabinet and government or seeing the
00:41:37.880writing on the wall and that this is the way things are going? Yeah, absolutely. I do believe
00:41:43.460that the senior leadership of the Canadian forces has bought completely into this. And, you know,
00:41:48.920I tweeted about this yesterday where, you know, there was the American veterans and currently
00:41:54.720serving members have created this declaration of accountability where you know um there there's a
00:42:01.840group of over 200 i believe 230 uh currently serving and re uh retired american veterans
00:42:09.520who want accountability against the joint chiefs of staff for all of their actions uh during covet
00:42:15.600and um you know my tweet was actually about the same thing is that the canadian armed forces
00:42:22.320members um had the same have the same duty i mean you learn this in basic training in the first week
00:42:29.040when you're covering military law you as a subordinate rank when you're trained have a duty
00:42:36.640to report a crime if you witness it being committed and if so actually lay charges and that doesn't
00:42:42.480matter if the person committing the crime is of a higher rank than you you've got a duty to take
00:42:48.000action because you know it's a professional organization with its own body of laws it's got
00:42:53.900its own criminal justice system it has its own mechanisms to deal with these things and the fact
00:42:59.500that it right now the currently serving military members have never taken their superior officers
00:43:06.320to task tells you it speaks volumes about the the state of buy-in from senior leaders who are
00:43:15.280protecting their careers not the integrity of the institution of the Canadian Armed Forces
00:43:20.980but they're protecting their careers they're not risking their pensions or their livelihoods or
00:43:25.660their reputations on pushing back against this ideology and I think that that in itself is a
00:43:31.640massive leader of failure or a failure of leadership on on behalf of let's say lieutenant
00:43:38.160colonels and above or even majors who are the first rank of senior officer very few instances
00:43:43.560We've seen this. I can think of one major that did a video in uniform where he pushed back against the actions of the senior leadership of the forces.
00:43:52.940But that's the only example I can come up with. And, you know, I believe some people should stay in and fight from the inside, try to make it better.
00:44:01.100But the reality is that the best people are going to get out of the way.
00:44:04.780They're going to leave the military and the garbage is going to percolate to the top.
00:44:08.300And they are going to occupy those senior positions within the Canadian forces, and they will remain beholden to the Liberal Party of Canada, not to Canadians, not to the institution of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:44:22.920That's where their loyalties are going to lie in their next promotion.
00:44:26.780And their next promotion is going to be contingent on how woke you are and how much you abide by this gender ideology and all these other things, right?
00:44:35.080I mean, we have quotas, 25% of all the occupations we want to fill by women.
00:44:52.920And, you know, up until recently, the fundamental idea was that your capabilities were what earned you the position within the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:45:03.320you know you don't have the right to join the canadian armed forces you have the right to apply
00:45:08.960you don't have to be accepted but to be accepted you have to meet a minimum standard and drew could
00:45:13.760probably talk about what's happening now with the cfad score which is the canadian forces aptitude
00:45:18.700test so you know i do think that there's some nefarious things happening so that senior officers
00:45:24.800can get promoted into uh more advanced positions than they currently hold well yeah and obviously
00:45:30.080if we are embracing diversity and DEI and anti-whiteness and anti-colonialism and all of
00:45:36.300this, which you clearly are, we see this in the documentation, it stands to reason that that's
00:45:41.340going to become at the core of hiring and promotion practices. And I mean, obviously,
00:45:47.300no true meritocracy really exists. There are always biases and nepotism and things that can
00:45:53.400seep their way in. But the idea that senior military strategists or people who are supposed
00:45:58.600to be strategists are going to be decided based on how many diversity checkboxes you can tick
00:46:03.880isn't really all that far off is it drew i mean and you think i mean this is the whole point of
00:46:08.520that intersectionality idea that these academics who have never served as tom points out are
00:46:13.460talking about here it said oh well yeah this guy may have led uh you know 20 successful campaigns
00:46:18.380but oh this one's a transgendered indigenous person in a wheelchair this is our our new admiral
00:46:22.960No, exactly. And I'll just touch base on one thing that Tom said is the difference. So we know and we're, I guess, partnered with the American guys who put forth that military accountability document.
00:46:37.140The difference down there is they actually have senior officers who are signed on to this, guys with credibility and who are known within the community.
00:46:45.840With V4F, we're at over 3,000 members.
00:46:48.820We have a handful of four ringers, so either captain navies or colonels, but we haven't had any sort of major general or admiral push back and step up.
00:47:01.020General Mason has been doing some good work.
00:47:03.620He's been speaking out against sort of the wokeness effect in the CAF, which is great, but there needs to be more senior officers and senior NCOs who speak out about this stuff.
00:47:15.840and that's uh sorry what was your question andrew i guess i lost your answer was good enough but i
00:47:21.480was basically just asking about whether diversity uh diversity hires are going to become the new
00:47:26.840norm uh with how things are going and you know the general the vice admiral all these leaders are
00:47:32.060not going to be people that were these you know brilliant tacticians and strategists and operators
00:47:37.580but are actually just going to be people that are chosen for these intersectional diversity
00:47:41.900categories yeah so you're 100 spot on so when i was in recruiting so i was a military career
00:47:48.260counselor i would really sign off the guys sign off on the files to get them uh sort of approved
00:47:53.340and onto the competition list uh which has been watered down but at that time uh women who were
00:47:58.980applying to the canadian forces didn't have to pass the aptitude test to be able to be approved
00:48:04.740and put on the thing so they had lowered the standards there for women um just to get them on
00:48:10.280how they actually select applicants but that's a whole nother story it is now this is something
00:48:16.520that we released on our uh social medias yesterday is for just under 50 of the trades
00:48:22.580um in the canadian armed forces they've waived the requirement to pass the canadian forces
00:48:28.140aptitude test and that aptitude test tests you in three things tests you in math it tests you
00:48:32.620in english test you on your spatial awareness and based on your scores it will dictate to us
00:48:38.420the military career counsellors of what occupations you're good for that's not even happening anymore
00:48:43.780so 47 trades no longer require that aptitude test now i talked to our source at cfrg which
00:48:49.920canadian forces recruiting group headquarters and see he said that this is being done to for
00:48:55.580two reasons one to help push through the 2600 permanent residents who've applied to the canadian
00:49:02.820Armed Forces, and two, to help meet the what we call EE employment equity quotas, which I believe
00:49:09.920is 25% women. These are the goals, 25% women, 15% visible minority, and I think it's four or five
00:49:16.460percent Indigenous. So they're lowering the standard of the troops in the military to help
00:49:23.940achieve their DEI targets, which is, you know, it's unacceptable. You never lower the standard,
00:49:31.620especially when people's lives are on the line.
00:49:34.200I mean, that used to be when this came up