Juno News - The True North Report： The Jaspal Atwal Cover-Up

00:00:00.160 Hey guys, we're live. Candice Malcolm here with the True North Initiative.

00:00:05.000 I wanted to come live today because I want to talk about this new report that was released yesterday.

00:00:10.560 I kind of went through it a little bit on Twitter.

00:00:13.480 There's a lot to get through, and I think that the issue is really being misrepresented, to be honest, on the media, in the media, by both conservatives and liberals.

00:00:25.040 So I want to go through it in a little bit more depth and talk about, again, you know, it was 10 months ago that Justin Trudeau embarrassed all Canadians with his antics in India,

00:00:37.960 and really basic questions about what happened, who was in charge, who was responsible, have yet to be answered.

00:00:45.980 So this report, I think, the single's in, it takes aim at some of the key players that were involved.

00:00:57.700 And unfortunately, we haven't really gotten any closer to the truth.

00:01:03.260 There's a lot of deflecting and, you know, pushing blame elsewhere.

00:01:07.440 But there's a couple of key pieces of information that we did learn yesterday that we will go through.

00:01:13.980 It's been a really busy couple of days here, a couple of weeks, I should say, in the media.

00:01:20.120 A lot's going on.

00:01:21.160 You know, you kind of think, you know, it's December.

00:01:23.840 Things are going to slow down a little bit for the holidays.

00:01:25.820 But we haven't really felt that yet.

00:01:29.100 And part of it is because Justin Trudeau is off gallivanting around the world, as per usual,

00:01:34.760 and he just can't help but embarrass Canadians pretty much wherever he goes, whatever he does. 0.94

00:01:39.080 So he was in Argentina, and he was talking at a G20 meeting, and he goes on some ridiculous feminist rant 0.69

00:01:47.620 about how construction workers pose social impact in rural areas, sort of implying that, you know, 0.68

00:01:56.100 you get a bunch of Canadian men in a rural part of the country and that, what, wreak havoc 1.00

00:02:01.280 and just sort of, like, rape and pillage or something like that, pretty insulting accusation

00:02:07.300 against anyone who is involved in that kind of work, or anyone who spent time in rural Canada

00:02:12.100 pretty much would contest some of those findings.

00:02:15.960 It's kind of like a very simplistic left-wing analysis from, like, a sort of what you'd expect

00:02:23.040 from, like, a high school student or maybe, like, first-year university social justice warrior

00:02:27.740 talking about toxic masculinity. Well, that's our prime minister. 0.84

00:02:32.300 So that video was making the rounds, and then there was a post today that went viral.

00:02:36.920 I shared it on both Facebook and Twitter about a young woman who does work up in one of those

00:02:42.520 rural areas that gets serviced by oil workers and construction workers, and she had pretty much

00:02:47.640 the opposite analysis as Trudeau. I've got a construction worker on here that found the comments disgusting.

00:02:54.220 I think we all did. It's like, you know, Trudeau's just so out of touch. He's living in his little

00:02:59.700 protected bubble. He comes from a very elite family in Montreal. I don't think he's really

00:03:05.400 spent a lot of time interacting with the kinds of Canadians that he so readily disparages. So

00:03:11.720 that was super disappointing. And then Jess and Trudeau jumps out, seemingly out of nowhere,

00:03:18.320 to engage in a Twitter conversation with a comedian. I use that term very loosely, comedian,

00:03:26.000 because I don't think Trevor Noah is very funny. He's the guy that took over for Jon Stewart

00:03:30.760 on The Daily Show, and pretty much the ratings have, like, tanked ever since Jon Stewart left.

00:03:37.400 I mean, this guy obviously had big shoes to fill, but he's just really not funny. Like, his show is

00:03:41.720 basically just, instead of comedy, instead of telling jokes, he just rants from a far-left

00:03:48.060 perspective, complains about how horrible and racist we all are in North America. For some

00:03:53.700 reason, Justin Trudeau wanted to impress this guy, so he sent out a tweet pledging $50 million

00:03:58.980 to support some global citizen initiative to help celebrate the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela,

00:04:08.200 except for, I mean, look, you could argue that the cause is worthy. It's like going to educate

00:04:14.400 young girls and women in poor countries. You know, you could argue that perhaps there was

00:04:21.740 some merit in Canada giving that money away. But, you know, there's sort of layers of problems here.

00:04:28.320 It's like, number one, Justin Trudeau is just virtue signaling on social media again. Number two,

00:04:33.040 he's obsessed with celebrities and appealing to these far-left global elites that really,

00:04:40.660 you know, you couldn't be further away from the reality of everyday Canadians by trying to

00:04:46.620 show off to some, you know, elite movie star or TV star that lives in New York City.

00:04:53.560 So, you know, why are you pledging our taxpayer money to these causes to try to impress your friends

00:05:00.040 in the American media? It's like, Trudeau is just so desperate for approval that, you know,

00:05:06.820 he goes to these pathetic lengths. And, you know, the tone in the tweet was very much like, 0.87

00:05:12.480 you know, it was his money. It was his grand gesture. And you saw a lot of other celebrities,

00:05:16.040 like, applauding him for it. It's like, well, this isn't his money. It's our money. And there's a lot,

00:05:21.540 there's a lot of problems in Canada. There's a lot going on that are equally worthy that might not

00:05:26.220 get the attention of these elite left-wing celebrities. But they would be helpful,

00:05:31.500 nonetheless. And you can just, you know, off the top of your head, name, you know, veterans. How

00:05:36.340 about Aboriginal communities? How about struggling oil workers? How about struggling car manufacturers?

00:05:41.280 How about, you know, the closed plant in Oshawa? How about the ongoing oil crisis in Alberta,

00:05:46.940 the record high unemployment rate? I think it's 8% unemployment in Alberta, which is unheard of.

00:05:51.900 Half the offices in Calgary are sitting empty because of Trudeau's policies. And yet this guy's

00:05:57.100 just flippantly pledging, pledging away our money to these ridiculous causes. So shame on Justin Trudeau. 0.98

00:06:05.840 Let me know where you guys are watching from. Let me know who it is that I am talking to. And I think

00:06:12.120 we've got enough people on that we can just go, go for it. So yesterday, the federal government

00:06:20.180 released this report. It's called the Special Report into Allegations Associated with Prime

00:06:25.800 Minister Trudeau's Official Visit to India in February 2018. So I'll just provide a quick bit

00:06:32.820 of background on that trip. I was one of the reporters that was, you know, following it really

00:06:38.200 closely, reporting it from day one. There's a lot of backstory to Trudeau going to India. Again,

00:06:45.780 his trip was kind of like twofold. Number one, I think that his inner circle and his,

00:06:51.180 the people that work around him recognize that, you know, they like having Trudeau on the global

00:06:56.520 stage. They like having him become the focal point of the international media. The international

00:07:01.660 media, at least at first, were very praising of Justin Trudeau. They saw him as this sort of like

00:07:08.120 liberal global rock star that was going to counter mean conservative Donald Trump. And so he would

00:07:14.700 get very favorable coverage when he'd go on these international junkets. And I think they thought

00:07:18.820 that this was just another opportunity to spotlight, you know, the gorgeous Trudeau family, those kids

00:07:25.860 and his wife and, you know, put them in costume and just have them out in the open. That was the plan.

00:07:31.920 Of course, it horribly backfired because of the second element that was going on in India, 1.00

00:07:37.320 which is that the Trudeau liberals, the liberal government general, and to be fair, other parties

00:07:42.800 do this too, the NDP and the conservatives federally both do this as well. But they love to court the

00:07:47.980 ethnic vote, phone bank policies or vote bank policies, vote bank politics, as it's called over

00:07:55.940 in India, where you basically just, you know, make inroads with a specific ethnic community,

00:08:03.400 you make all kinds of like really inside promises, special handouts and special deals. And then these

00:08:09.560 people from this community will come out in droves and vote, they'll sign up every niece and nephew

00:08:15.500 and cousin and every person from the religious community will go and vote for a block for one

00:08:20.940 candidate. And it can really have a big impact. So they're hyper organized, and they respond to

00:08:26.820 bribes, essentially, public bribes. And so the Trudeau government is notorious for this kind of

00:08:33.180 vote bank politics. And basically, going to India was just one big election campaign strategy to court

00:08:42.420 the Indian diaspora and Canada, specifically Sikh voters. And the Trudeau liberals have been accused

00:08:48.300 for the past few years of aligning themselves and courting the most extreme elements of the Sikh 1.00

00:08:54.680 community. So imagine a Sikh community, you know, in Canada, the vast majority of people are just, 1.00

00:09:01.620 you know, solid, good Canadian, hardworking people. We love Canada, they're grateful to be in Canada.

00:09:07.200 Then within that, you know, there's a very small element of people who are hyper political,

00:09:12.600 they believe in bringing their sort of tribalist ethnic politics from India into Canada, and then

00:09:19.280 using Canada as a launching point to kind of combat and go after all grievances from India. 0.94

00:09:27.940 And so we have this group, they're called the Kalistanis, they want to have their own independent

00:09:33.160 country called Kalistan, that would be carved out of India, carved out of Punjab region. So they want 0.99

00:09:39.380 Sikhs to have their own ethnic state. And this was a sort of popular political movement in the 70s and

00:09:45.600 the 80s in India. It kind of hit its peak in the 80s, there's a bunch of ethnic rioting, there was

00:09:51.700 sort of a pogrom against Sikhs. So a lot of Sikhs were killed. The Indian government considers these

00:09:57.060 people terrorists, whereas the people themselves, you know, they consider themselves freedom fighters

00:10:01.800 for their cause. So difference of opinion there, a lot of the Sikhs ended up moving to Canada.

00:10:06.780 And it was kind of like a time capsule, right? So in India, the issue was resolved, you know, there

00:10:13.940 was a lot of reconciliation. And the issue is mostly dead. I talked to so many people from India,

00:10:20.220 they're kind of surprised that this issue is still alive and well in Canada, because it's dead in

00:10:25.860 India. It just, you know, the movement is gone. But so many of these people moved to Canada at the

00:10:31.100 height of that tension. And then and then you all probably know about the worst terrorist attack that

00:10:35.840 ever occurred against Canadians, the air India bombing, this terrorist mastermind from within 0.88

00:10:42.080 this community blew up an airplane that was flying from Toronto, Montreal, over to Delhi killed about

00:10:48.080 300 people. And that was in the mid 80s. And it was, you know, still remains the worst terrorist atrocity

00:10:54.000 in our history. So Canadians have been involved in this, they've been kind of pulled into it.

00:10:59.520 And there's still a very active community of Kalistanis that live in mostly in suburbs of

00:11:07.240 Vancouver and Toronto. They celebrate the people who carried out this terrorist attack, they celebrate

00:11:12.240 the people who died in India during that ethnic sort of feud that happened in the 80s as well.

00:11:19.220 And so it's hard for us in Canada, because, you know, we don't want to be insensitive to people in

00:11:26.320 this community. But at the same time, they have parades, and they're carrying around banners and

00:11:30.640 posters that are celebrating terrorists who killed Canadians. You know, it's no longer just free speech,

00:11:36.240 that's sort of incitement and terrorism. So this is all background, this is all background.

00:11:42.160 The report was released yesterday. And interesting, because it has the timeline here, I've got the

00:11:48.720 report here, I can share the link if folks are interested in reading through it, it's pretty long report. But

00:11:53.840 basically, it's got the timeline. So in April 2018, the parliamentarians initiated a special review.

00:12:02.960 So this is a committee within Parliament that was asked to look at the intelligence and national

00:12:09.680 security issues that happened. So foreign interference and the use of security intelligence

00:12:16.240 in this scandal, and included the Privy Council Office, the Canadian's thesis, the Royal Canadian

00:12:23.440 Mount Police, so the RCMP, and Global Affairs Canada, so it's the Department of Foreign Affairs.

00:12:29.760 And so that the report was released or the report was initiated in April, it was finished in May.

00:12:38.560 And so this report was finished in May, and it was given to the Prime Minister's office.

00:12:43.520 So the Prime Minister's office has had this report for almost six months. And yet it wasn't released

00:12:51.200 until yesterday. There were two updates that were provided in October, and then it was finally

00:12:56.720 released yesterday, December 3rd. So kind of interesting, you have to wonder why the Trudeau

00:13:02.880 government held on to this report, what was going on in Trudeau's own personal office, and why he

00:13:07.920 decided not to release this report. So it finally did come out yesterday. And if you watch the mainstream

00:13:15.040 media, and you look for your information there, you'll kind of get two different narratives that

00:13:23.040 came out. So the more sort of establishment mainstream liberal perspective was that this report

00:13:31.760 showed a failing on behalf of the RCMP. The RCMP really dropped the ball. There was sort of just

00:13:38.720 a lot of confusion between these different departments that I listed, the CSIS, RCMP,

00:13:44.560 and Global Affairs Canada, that just failed to communicate the fact that there was a problem. So

00:13:51.920 I guess just going back a bit more background, is that Trudeau goes to India, he makes a total 0.98

00:13:58.240 full of himself with all his silly costumes. But then in the midst of it all, we learn that he had 0.53

00:14:04.720 invited a terrorist as part of his entourage that was attending events with him. I was a journalist that

00:14:11.280 broke that story first. I had the pictures of Sophie Trudeau and a whole bunch of other liberal MPs and

00:14:17.680 cabinet ministers posing with an individual named Jasper Atwal, who was a convicted terrorist. He is

00:14:24.400 living here in Canada. He's part of this Sikh Kalistani group of separatists and terrorists. In the 80s, 1.00

00:14:31.440 he tried to assassinate a visiting Indian politician. So an Indian cabinet minister from the Punjab region

00:14:38.800 was visiting Vancouver Island and he tried to kill the guy. He shot him. The judge called him, called it

00:14:45.680 an act of terrorism and he sort of served his time. So that was the big scandal. How on earth did a terrorist

00:14:52.640 get involved in Trudeau's inner circle? How was he led into an event, you know, to pose, take pictures

00:14:59.360 with Sophie Trudeau and other liberal cabinet ministers? He probably met the prime minister.

00:15:04.720 So that was sort of the first angle that was looked at in this report. And then there was a secondary

00:15:09.040 angle, which is that in the aftermath of this news report coming out and sort of all the, you know,

00:15:15.040 news stories, international kerfuffle of this cause. The national security advisor, a guy named Daniel Jean

00:15:22.080 at the time, came out and gave an off the record briefing to reporters. And in that briefing, he basically alleged

00:15:30.640 a massive conspiracy theory. He basically alleged that there were rogue elements in the Indian government that

00:15:37.840 orchestrated the invitation of Jasper Atwal in order to embarrass the Trudeau liberals, in order to

00:15:43.840 embarrass Justin Trudeau. So you're going to have these two elements. One, why is there a terrorist in

00:15:48.720 India? Two, why is the national security advisor who is a bureaucrat, who is nonpartisan, who is not a

00:15:56.000 political appointee, but a civil servant, a queer civil servant, why is he making these allegations? Is there any

00:16:01.840 truth to them? Was it was, you know, security? And until it was intelligence used inappropriately? Was was his

00:16:12.080 were his actions political? So these are the kind of questions that were supposed to be answered in this report. And so

00:16:19.360 the report was let out yesterday, again, the media pointed out that the RCMP massively screwed things up. And then on the

00:16:27.360 other side, there were a lot of people, a lot of conservatives complaining that this report was just

00:16:32.160 heavily redacted, and that we didn't really learn anything. It was just an empty document. Conservative

00:16:37.040 leader Andrew Scheer posted a screenshot of just a whole bunch, he picked one page of the report that

00:16:43.280 was just heavily redacted. And he was like, you know, this is the kind of transparency that the Trudeau

00:16:47.680 liberals are giving us. Now, it's true that a lot of the information was redacted, but it was a 50 page report,

00:16:54.720 and there was a lot of information. Again, I was one of the journalists that was following this

00:16:59.520 story, probably the closest. And I did learn a lot from reading through that document. So let's go

00:17:04.800 through some of it right here. This is this is the main piece of information that the liberal media picked

00:17:10.960 up on. I tweeted this out, I can provide a post to it as well. I don't know if you guys can see it very

00:17:17.040 well. But it's basically a timeline. So once Jasper Atwell was added to the event list to go to this

00:17:24.400 event on February 20. This is how the RCMP had a timeline. So an RCMP officer basically determined

00:17:33.360 that Jasper Atwell was on the invitation list, and that he had a criminal conviction for attempted

00:17:39.040 murder. And then he was later acquitted for assault. And then for some reason, so on February 13, he knew

00:17:46.080 this. And then for some reason, he didn't pass along the information. It says that on February 14,

00:17:56.240 he left a voicemail somewhere, but there was no action because the officer was away on leave.

00:18:02.240 And then basically, that the information was received at the end of a shift, and it wasn't passed

00:18:08.000 along. So a little bit of just laziness and incompetence on behalf of the officer there.

00:18:13.840 And that's this is sort of what the media is jumping on saying like, oh, the RCMP dropped the ball,

00:18:19.760 and sort of blaming it on them. I don't think that that's entirely accurate, because the report itself

00:18:28.320 also says that the RCMP and CSIS both basically looked into it, and they determined that this guy

00:18:38.080 was not a threat. This guy was not a national security threat, and that because his criminal history was

00:18:44.320 so far in the past, that even though he had been a terrorist in the 80s, he was no longer considered

00:18:49.680 a terrorist now. So here, this again is from the report. You can see right at the top there,

00:18:55.280 it says, the RCMP stated that Mr. Atwell was not considered a threat despite his criminal history,

00:19:03.840 and blank, that part was redacted. But again, so it's hard to say that the RCMP dropped the ball

00:19:10.640 when their own determination was that he wasn't a security threat. So I don't think you can just

00:19:15.280 simply say, oh, it was the RCMP's fault here, because they did come to the determination that

00:19:20.960 they wouldn't have changed their security protocol, that they didn't consider him a threat,

00:19:25.120 even though he did have this criminal background. So I don't think we can so easily blame it on the

00:19:31.120 RCMP. From my analysis of reading this report, I think that the prime minister's office, PMO,

00:19:37.200 is basically, it was their fault. They're the ones that dropped the ball, and we'll get to that in a

00:19:40.800 minute. A couple of interesting points. This is just, again, background. So part of the report talked

00:19:48.240 about recent Indian messaging on Sikh extremism, says, according to government officials, there are

00:19:54.160 issues raised with great regularity in bilateral meetings at all levels. And the focus was basically

00:20:00.640 about the concerns that I raised at the beginning of this video, about the Canadian Sikh community

00:20:08.560 having this radical element. You know, a small percentage of Sikhs in Canada are part of this

00:20:13.840 extreme Kalistani network that want to have Sikh nationalism and a Sikh independent state called

00:20:21.360 Kalistan. And that they're sort of organizing terrorists and political events out of Canada, 0.92

00:20:26.880 doing fundraising, that kind of thing. So those are the things that were raised. According to this document,

00:20:32.720 the last point there, in April 2017, India's chief minister of Punjab referred, refused to meet with

00:20:42.000 the minister of national defense, who was traveling to India at the time. He accused him and four other

00:20:47.760 Canadian cabinet ministers of being Kalistani. So there's this feud going on between the Canadian

00:20:53.040 and Indian government, where the Indian government is not only accusing the liberals of sort of courting

00:20:59.520 and, you know, fostering extremism in the Sikh community, but that these extremists are actually

00:21:07.040 part of the Trudeau government, part of the inner circle of the Trudeau government, which is really

00:21:11.680 alarming. It's really alarming stuff that the Trudeau government is basically accusing, or sorry,

00:21:16.400 the Indian government, the chief minister of Punjab, so it's like it's like the equivalent of the

00:21:21.280 premier of a Canadian province, is accusing the Canadian government of being infiltrated by

00:21:26.960 essentially extremists and terrorists. I think that's pretty alarming. And that was something

00:21:32.880 that was sort of a major takeaway for me. Another thing that we learned was that all the attention was

00:21:40.640 on Jasper Atwal. All the attention was on the fact that this guy, this one individual who had tried to

00:21:45.520 kill an Indian cabinet minister was in India. That was a story that I broke in the sun. And then subsequently,

00:21:51.120 it was also written about in the CBC and other news agencies. But he wasn't the only person

00:21:57.360 who was flagged and pulled. We also learned that there were three individuals who had their invitations

00:22:03.200 rescinded. We only know the name of Jasper Atwal. The other two remain anonymous. And that part,

00:22:12.000 again, is redacted from this report. But it says right here, Canada's High Commission in Delhi sent emails

00:22:19.120 to three individuals, and then their names are redacted. It says rescinding their invitations.

00:22:23.920 And the first name, direction came from the Prime Minister's office, the second from the PCO,

00:22:28.080 and the third from the Canadian Mission. So, you know, it wasn't just a one-off mistake that Jasper Atwal

00:22:36.480 slipped onto the guest list. There were three of these guys. There were three individuals who were,

00:22:42.240 you know, raised security issues. So that's interesting. The third thing that I wanted to raise is that

00:22:50.720 if you read the CBC, and if you sort of subscribe again to the liberal narrative and talking points,

00:22:58.080 they talk about how it was a low-ranking MP, a backbench rookie MP from Surrey British Columbia,

00:23:05.520 sorry, PCO, someone's asking. It's the Privy Council office. So in Canada, there's sort of like the

00:23:11.200 permanent bureaucracy, and then there's the political appointees. So the Privy Council is

00:23:16.400 the equivalent to the Prime Minister's office, but they're the permanent bureaucracy that always work,

00:23:21.600 you know, they're the civil servants that always work in Ottawa. And then the Prime Minister's office

00:23:25.760 will change according to who the Prime Minister is. I know there's a lot of acronyms when it comes to

00:23:32.000 dealing with federal government stuff. I try not to use the acronyms, but sometimes it's just easier.

00:23:39.120 So, again, this MP from Surrey named Varandeep Surrey, he's the one that came out and apologized and

00:23:46.880 said that it was his fault that he released, or that he invited Jasper Atwal and kind of fell on the

00:23:53.280 sword or, you know, was thrown under the bus by the trio of government. In this report, though,

00:23:57.760 it says that the MP also claimed, I think this was when he was doing a interview with Indian media,

00:24:07.040 or perhaps Punjab media, he said that he didn't invite the person. And so his claim was that there

00:24:13.840 are no spots on the list. All I did was forward anyone who wanted to attend, who would express

00:24:20.000 interest. So they forwarded the names, he said 25 to 30 names from different industry, various industries.

00:24:28.800 So basically, all you had to do in order to get invited to Trudeau's India Junket was email your

00:24:34.880 local MP, say, hey, I want to go on this trip with Trudeau. The local MP's office would forward

00:24:41.280 the names to the Prime Minister's office. And then it was the Prime Minister's office who created the

00:24:45.600 list. And we learned that there's 423 of these individuals who basically just asked if they could

00:24:50.480 go to the event with Trudeau in India. And then that entire list was added. So the Prime Minister's

00:24:58.320 office themselves were the ones that created the list. It's kind of rich for them to turn around

00:25:02.080 and try to blame it on a rookie MP. The rookie MP says, you know, all I did was just, you know,

00:25:08.640 kind of follow this protocol. So again, this is just trying to get to the bottom of who to blame,

00:25:14.160 the blame game. I think it's pretty clear, though, that, yeah, you can blame the RCMP here,

00:25:18.960 you can blame a local MP there. But at the end of the day, it's Trudeau's responsibility to make

00:25:24.960 sure that he's not inviting a terrorist. It's his staff, it's his office, it's the Prime Minister's

00:25:30.160 office who are in charge of these kind of like political decisions. Don't invite people who the

00:25:34.880 Indian government hates, don't invite people who the Indian government considers a terrorist.

00:25:38.320 Those would be the kind of decisions that Trudeau's staff should have made. So let's move on to the

00:25:45.280 part that I find most interesting that really isn't being covered at all in the media, which is that

00:25:50.400 the comments and that briefing, that bizarre briefing made by the National Security Advisor,

00:25:58.240 Danielle Jean. So this is really what the crux of the report that was released yesterday

00:26:04.480 talks about, and it wasn't really covered that much in the media. So if you remember,

00:26:10.720 after this whole scandal broke, where Jasper Atwal was at this event with Trudeau, and we're trying to

00:26:15.840 figure out how on earth the Kalistani terrorist was invited, there was this really bizarre story that

00:26:22.560 came out in the CBC, and it was about rogue elements, rogue elements in the Indian government.

00:26:30.000 And the allegation was that these elements in the Indian government were purposefully trying to make

00:26:37.200 Trudeau look bad, and that's how Jasper Atwal got invited to this event. So here is the CBC story.

00:26:44.880 Rogue Indian political elements may be trying to make Canada look weak on Sikh extremism source. 0.63

00:26:54.640 So that source in this story was an anonymous source, and we later learned that the source was none other

00:27:02.560 than Danielle Jean, who was the National Security Advisor. Interestingly, he retired like a couple weeks

00:27:09.920 after this whole thing happened. But it was really one of the most bizarre conspiracy theories

00:27:17.440 that I've ever seen, and bizarre that, again, a non-political, non-partisan,

00:27:24.160 is supposed to be impartial career civil servant was the one behind it, because it was really like

00:27:29.760 grasping at straws. It was a cover-up. So we learned a lot about, well, I should say we,

00:27:39.040 the report aimed at answering a bunch of questions about this guy, like, you know,

00:27:44.800 what did he use intelligence? Did he disclose any classified information? You know, why did he

00:27:53.520 decide to do an off-the-record briefing? Who was discussed? Who was involved? All those things were

00:27:59.040 supposed to have been answered. Unfortunately, the report doesn't really get to them, and maybe that's

00:28:03.920 part of the problem. Some of it was redacted. But basically, they wanted to find out, you know,

00:28:11.840 why he did it. So his explanation, Danielle Jean's explanation, was that he wanted to push back

00:28:17.760 against what he thought were false stories. Again, why is it the National Security Advisor's

00:28:25.120 role to try to push back against false stories? That doesn't really make any sense. Again, that's not

00:28:29.840 his job. He's the top security advisor. He's supposed to be looking at national security,

00:28:36.320 intelligence and national security. So, you know, we're talking about terrorism or, you know,

00:28:42.880 foreign governments plotting things that could put Canada at harm. We're talking about national security

00:28:49.680 and our safety, the safety of the prime minister. That doesn't really have anything to do with combating

00:28:55.760 news stories that you might not agree with the premise or that you might find to be a bit

00:29:00.880 misleading in India. And that was that was his whole thing. It was pushed back against what he

00:29:06.000 considered misleading information in the Indian media, which I just I don't I don't understand

00:29:13.440 why he thinks that that's his role. But one of the things that we did learn was that

00:29:18.640 so he insisted that he was briefing journalists on his own initiative, that it wasn't sort of a

00:29:26.960 favor that he was doing for Trudeau's staff or Trudeau's inner circle, it says right here.

00:29:32.160 He maintained in public and in the committee that he briefed journalists on his own initiative.

00:29:36.400 He also stated that he consulted the PMO prior to the briefing. The committee has email evidence that

00:29:42.720 shows that he was in contact with several PMO officials prior to the briefing. And he stated during

00:29:48.080 his testimony that he spoke to the PMO principal secretary prior to his briefing. The committee does

00:29:55.280 not know the content of that conversation. So the PMO officials means Trudeau's political staff, so

00:30:01.600 liberals who were appointed to be Trudeau's staff. And when they talk about the PMO principal secretary

00:30:08.320 for people who follow Canadian politics closely, that's Gerald Butts. That's Justin Trudeau's best

00:30:14.000 friend from the time that they were at McGill together. And he's sort of the advisor to the

00:30:19.680 prime minister. There's been media reports that say in private liberal MPs call him prime minister

00:30:25.920 butts because, you know, that's how much power he has. That's how much say he has. And we know also that

00:30:31.280 he's sort of a radical left-wing activist who has advocated for all kinds of crazy things, including

00:30:39.440 basically shutting down the oil sands in Alberta. So, you know, he's sort of Trudeau's hyper-political

00:30:46.720 go-to guy. And he's having private conversations with this bureaucrat prior to the bureaucrat briefing

00:30:54.160 that raises all kinds of red flags, obviously, especially when the committee was unable to

00:30:58.480 determine what they talked about. So, you know, on the one hand, we have Daniel Jean, who up to this

00:31:04.400 point was a respected, independent guy, claiming that, you know, it was totally his own idea. Now,

00:31:09.920 on the other hand, he's having these closed-door meetings with Gerald Butts, which makes, you know,

00:31:14.880 makes your mind lead to thinking, you know, what were they scheming about? What were they talking about?

00:31:20.560 You know, how much of this is coordinated? How much of this was a cover-up

00:31:24.800 to protect Justin Trudeau after this, you know, incredibly humiliating episode is playing out. So,

00:31:31.440 you know, there's a lot of information in this document that was trying to determine just,

00:31:37.120 you know, Jean's motives and what he was doing. Because again, it was highly unprecedented.

00:31:42.000 There weren't really any other examples of stuff like this happening in the past,

00:31:45.600 and it just didn't really seem to fit in with his role as being the national security advisor. So

00:31:52.640 they basically came to these conclusions that it was highly unprecedented for the national

00:31:58.720 security advisor to give this kind of briefing to the media, that the reason why he would have

00:32:05.440 done the briefing, it was unclear to the committee. He didn't understand why it had to be Daniel Jean,

00:32:10.160 why it couldn't have been someone else. They said that was unclear. They said that Jean didn't notify

00:32:15.920 other officials from CSIS, the RCMP, or the Department of Foreign Affairs as to why he was

00:32:23.040 briefing journalists. He didn't explain. He didn't tell them prior. He didn't have any kind of

00:32:28.800 communication before that. And then the committee also couldn't determine why he would brief reporters

00:32:33.920 off the record. So this is all not good for the national security advisor. Sort of, you know,

00:32:42.160 it doesn't come right out and say that he did something wrong, but it just leaves a lot of

00:32:49.040 questions that they didn't understand why he did it. And that, you know, raises important concerns.

00:32:55.200 And I think that that, again, just leads us to think that this was a cover up. We can't conclusively

00:33:02.880 say that there is any evidence that his conspiracy that he pushed about rogue elements in the Indian

00:33:08.400 government was true. We, there's nothing that we can point to and say, oh, this is what he was

00:33:13.760 talking about. Or, oh yeah, there's a record of this kind of concern. Or, oh, he talked to officials

00:33:19.280 in foreign affairs who had a file that was about this. You know, there was no information. It was

00:33:25.200 just completely on his own. And the basic idea was that he was trying to combat media stories that he

00:33:30.480 didn't like, essentially, which is just a total misuse of power, misuse of resources. And I think that

00:33:37.760 the report, you know, the conclusion that you can draw is that it's completely unsubstantiated,

00:33:44.160 that from best we can tell, he was just, you know, part of the cover up, essentially. And that's

00:33:52.000 unfortunate when you have your senior civil servants in the government. You know, this is what in the

00:33:58.320 U.S. they would call the deep state. This is the permanent bureaucracy meddling in the day to day aspects of the

00:34:05.680 political appointees, the people who are actually democratically elected and then appointed by,

00:34:12.080 you know, the Trudeau government. Trudeau himself was elected. And then you have these shadowy figures

00:34:17.200 that usually remain nameless. And that CBC story I showed you doesn't list his name. It just names

00:34:22.800 him as an anonymous, high-ranking source. And that's the kind of thing that makes people really,

00:34:27.760 you know, skeptical about the media and the reports that they put out when, you know,

00:34:34.880 it's all based on an unnamed source. And then the unnamed source, when you look into it and when you

00:34:39.760 get a report like this, it goes to show just sort of how out of left field it was and how unsubstantiated

00:34:47.360 the whole thing was. So I think at this point, it's fair to say that the whole rogue elements in the Indian 1.00

00:34:55.120 government was nothing but a overstatement, fake news, I would say, but there's nothing really to it.

00:35:04.160 Daniel Jean can argue that, you know, it was his own idea to brief reporters, but it really seems like it was part of a

00:35:10.320 political cover-up. We know that he was having private conversations with Gerald Butts prior,

00:35:16.160 and then he basically came out and bailed Trudeau out of a pretty embarrassing mess, or at least they

00:35:21.600 tried to. That story came out late on Sunday after this whole scandal broke. So, you know, there are

00:35:29.920 still answers that remain, questions that remain unanswered. I don't think we're going to get any more,

00:35:35.120 though. I think this is pretty much all there is to it. There was a bunch of recommendations

00:35:40.160 that were provided by the committee. Those ones were redacted, so we don't know exactly what they

00:35:44.880 were. The ones that were public were all pretty basic, like, oh, you know, MPs should have better

00:35:50.080 briefings when it comes to national security protocol. And yeah, obviously, we should screen and vet

00:35:58.400 invitation lists to public events with the prime minister so that, you know, more terrorists don't

00:36:04.000 end up hobnobbing and taking photos and taking selfies with the prime minister and his family and

00:36:12.000 the inner circle. So that stuff's all pretty basic. I could have told you that, you know, the day this

00:36:17.120 stuff was happening, you know, lo and behold, it takes federal government 10 months to come out with

00:36:22.080 that report. Five of those months it was just being held by the federal government, by the Trudeau

00:36:28.320 government for whatever reason. And then I'll just do a final criticism here because I think

00:36:34.400 it's pretty brutal. So in the midst of this report coming out yesterday and journalists kind of going

00:36:39.680 through this long report trying to figure out what the heck it's saying, the CBC released its own

00:36:46.960 report. So, you know, the timing of it is just really suspicious. So federal government, after five

00:36:53.360 months being held by the prime minister's office, they pick, you know, a Monday in December to release

00:36:59.520 this report. And so while all these journalists are busy looking out at the 50-page report from

00:37:05.520 parliament, the CBC releases their own report, which is that they filed an access to information to

00:37:11.360 receive a bunch of emails that were sent among the various government departments talking about

00:37:17.200 Jasper Latwal and talking about this security breach. And so the CBC released it at the exact same

00:37:23.200 time on the same day. I don't know if that was intentionally done. I think it's pretty suspicious

00:37:28.240 that it would all come out on the same day. You know, again, I've worked in the media a lot and

00:37:34.400 usually you file an access information report, then the government gives it back to you. And it takes

00:37:39.680 you a little bit of time to go through all the information. Sometimes you get thousands of pages

00:37:44.960 and you have to have a couple of people going through it, reading through it, figuring out what

00:37:49.520 parts newsworthy. And then, you know, you plan from there and you decide when you're going to release

00:37:55.120 it. So it doesn't just happen like instantaneously. And yet, you know, somehow, even though this happened

00:38:01.520 10 months ago, somehow we had both of these reports dropping simultaneously on the same day at the same

00:38:08.800 time. So you can draw your own conclusion from that. I thought it was pretty suspicious. And so this

00:38:14.720 was a CBC story that came out yesterday. Newly released emails showed Trudeau officials struggling

00:38:20.640 to get ahead of the Atwal story, of course, from the perspective of the Trudeau government. You know,

00:38:26.960 they were just doing their best, struggling to come to terms with what was going on. This was the

00:38:32.400 famous picture that I broke there of the terrorist Jaspal Atwal with Justin Trudeau's wife, 0.93

00:38:37.760 wearing her silliest Indian wedding dress there. And so again, a lot of it was redacted and the CBC

00:38:48.160 dutifully echoes Trudeau's talking points here by blaming it on that backbench MP, MP Randeep Suri.

00:38:56.800 So, I don't know. I think this was all just meant to further confuse the issue, make it seem like

00:39:02.800 the whole issue with India, instead of placing the blame on Trudeau and his inner circle and

00:39:09.760 the whole problem with these guys trying to court the most extremist groups in society and rubbing

00:39:15.840 elbows and recruiting people who were even considered terrorists. The story changes, the narrative changes

00:39:23.600 to, oh, you know, they were scrambling to do the best they could. And the problem was like,

00:39:31.920 coming from multiple angles, blame the RCMP, blame CSIS, blame bureaucrats, the Department of

00:39:38.080 Global Affairs, blame anyone, blame a backbench MP, anything they can do to divert attention away from

00:39:44.480 the fact that it was Trudeau and his inner circle that really dropped the ball and really not only

00:39:50.000 embarrassed themselves, but embarrassed every single Canadian when we had to see, you know, this guy,

00:39:55.840 these people playing Mr. Dress up on the world stage and courting extremists and people who

00:40:05.520 our allies in India consider to be terrorists. So, I think that was a pretty much a low point

00:40:11.600 in the Trudeau government's, in Trudeau's time in office. You know, there's a lot of low points. He

00:40:16.880 keeps managing to outdo himself and stoop even lower. I think that the India trip though was like the end of

00:40:24.400 his honeymoon and it was the start of Canadians really seeing just how truly incompetent and silly 1.00

00:40:30.320 and foolish our Prime Minister is. And he hasn't quite been able to shake it yet. So, I'll leave it 1.00

00:40:36.640 at that. Thanks so much for watching guys. I will try to share, I'll share a couple of those links that

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Juno News - December 05, 2018

The True North Report： The Jaspal Atwal Cover-Up

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