Raging Dissident Podcast - e2. ＂TIME'S UP＂

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00:00:10.300 Leader of a white nationalist group, Diagolo!

00:00:13.700 Yes, I'm the bad guy now.

00:00:15.400 If that's how it's gonna be, then that's how it's gonna be.

00:00:17.960 You've got to say, I'm a human being!

00:00:20.040 God damn it!

00:00:21.120 My life has value!

00:00:22.600 You, sir, you are a terrorist!

00:00:25.800 when i returned home from afghanistan in the summer of 2007 my family threw a party

00:00:33.400 200 people came maybe more there were some of the local bands lots of great food girls i was elated

00:00:42.080 i was just happy to be alive and to be home and in sort of a surreal state still trying to process

00:00:49.100 everything that had happened. Being at home, the home I had grown up in with my family since I was

00:00:56.300 12 years old, felt like it was all a dream. You wake up in Afghanistan, or the United Bay of

00:01:02.480 Emirates, or the Middle East, or one morning, in less than 48 hours, or maybe even the same night,

00:01:08.180 you can be asleep in your own bed in Pictou County. You wake up in the morning, you look out

00:01:15.120 at the harbor in the summer in August and look down at your beret, your desert uniform

00:01:24.560 thrown over the chair next to your bed in your room, and it's almost like it was all

00:01:30.560 a dream.

00:01:32.440 There was a big banner my family had made, a big welcome home banner with the support

00:01:37.740 the troops yellow ribbons on it, and everybody signed it.

00:01:40.760 Some of them wrote nice messages.

00:01:42.220 Some of them probably regret.

00:01:44.400 some of those messages now in the present

00:01:46.620 since according to left and right wing media

00:01:49.940 I've become ginger Hitler

00:01:52.480 there was one message though

00:01:55.860 that stood out above the rest that I will never forget

00:01:59.080 it didn't exactly hurt to read it

00:02:02.300 but it felt heavy to read

00:02:04.260 and it said

00:02:07.380 never do that again

00:02:09.280 love dad

00:02:14.400 I was so lucky to grow up with the love and protection and understanding I had in my home from my mom and dad, my sister, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles and cousins.

00:02:25.440 It couldn't have been any better.

00:02:27.700 The kind of near-perfect childhood that I had is extremely rare.

00:02:32.360 I would come to understand that from hearing the stories of the situations many of the other soldiers came from.

00:02:38.800 My family should be very proud of that.

00:02:41.380 requires a lot of hard work patience and sacrifice it's not easy and i wouldn't be who i am today

00:02:48.400 without it my dad dropped probably 60 or 70 pounds while i was gone the stress of me being there in

00:02:56.700 afghanistan had him running probably it sounded like every day when i got home i spent almost a

00:03:02.860 year drinking beer and rum and eating pizza on the flip side i ballooned up to over 200 pounds myself

00:03:08.640 While he kept at it with his running, and he was older than I am today, he ran a marathon and finished with a qualifying time for the Boston Marathon while I was going in completely the other direction, quite fat and out of shape.

00:03:25.100 Here's a picture.

00:03:27.780 I could sense and feel how stressed out and worried, how much strain and stress my deployment put on my mother and father.

00:03:34.320 and I could feel their relief in the message that he wrote.

00:03:40.400 I can still see it in my mind.

00:03:43.340 I've looked at it and read it a few more times over the years

00:03:45.980 and thought about it.

00:03:49.140 And while at the time in 2007,

00:03:52.000 I had no intentions to do that again.

00:03:55.060 Within a few years, I thought it very well could

00:03:57.880 and probably would though.

00:03:59.800 There was no end in sight of that war

00:04:01.640 that is still ongoing today, 25 years later.

00:04:07.680 My career was just starting.

00:04:09.140 I was 22, and I had applied to the Special Operations Regiment.

00:04:12.820 There were still lots of combat deployments ongoing

00:04:16.600 for Canada and Afghanistan,

00:04:18.500 and we were still very much in the thick of things.

00:04:21.320 But between myself and God, I said that I would not seek it out.

00:04:26.400 I will not go out of my way to find it.

00:04:29.380 If I'm called and it's required, then I'll go.

00:04:31.640 But I will not, as the saying goes, go looking for trouble, because if you do, it will find you.

00:04:40.240 It always does.

00:04:42.720 I have a second cousin who fought with the United States Marines infantry in Vietnam at a time when anti-American subversion was activating.

00:04:50.900 More Canadians crossed the border into America to volunteer to fight the war than Americans who dodged the draft, like Donald Trump did many times, to hide in Canada.

00:05:01.640 My cousin Dave was one such volunteer. He was shot in the head.

00:05:06.240 A bullet tore through his helmet and cut through the top of his head and his skull, but didn't severely damage his brain.

00:05:14.320 He recovered and returned to duty.

00:05:16.760 Later, he would step on a Bouncing Betty anti-personnel mine.

00:05:20.300 The Bouncing Betty was a small explosive charge buried in the ground, and when it was triggered, would bounce into the air around waist height

00:05:28.720 and then detonate, intending to cripple and injure as many soldiers in range as possible

00:05:33.220 in the pelvis region where there are many arteries and vulnerabilities.

00:05:37.780 A significant portion of the back of his leg and lower posterior chain were destroyed.

00:05:42.560 He was fortunate to survive, but this time he would be retired and sent home.

00:05:47.180 Now he lives in Florida with a Purple Heart and has a 100% success rate to this day

00:05:52.360 in getting him out of speeding tickets.

00:05:54.140 I bring this up because the last time I spoke to him in person was in the summer of 2006, shortly before I deployed, and he said, I have one piece of advice.

00:06:05.180 Never volunteer for anything.

00:06:08.760 The American Special Operations Community also has a saying, don't run to your death.

00:06:14.440 All in all, besides permanently damaged ear and my innocent view of the world and humanity being far darker than I had hoped, I was very lucky to be unharmed.

00:06:24.140 The whole experience really touched me in ways that I've never forgotten.

00:06:27.540 But in this particular thread, because it was the first and only time I ever recall in my life that I could feel that my father was afraid.

00:06:39.800 I could sense that he was afraid for me and afraid for us, the other guys, and there wasn't anything he could do.

00:06:46.980 He would tell me that if he was just a little bit younger, he would go with me.

00:06:54.140 And I knew that he meant it. I can't imagine how helpless he felt. Now having children of my own,

00:07:02.340 I can't imagine the strength it must have taken for him to get up every day and go to work and

00:07:07.900 carry on acting like everything was fine. When at that time, every week, we were losing guys.

00:07:15.380 They would first report on the news, three killed in an ambush, two shot down in a helicopter,

00:07:19.480 six dead from a roadside bomb, and our families at home would have to wait.

00:07:23.940 Our communications would be silenced.

00:07:25.540 We couldn't call home and tell anybody that we were okay.

00:07:29.300 It had to be radio silence.

00:07:31.000 You'd have to wait until the public affairs officers and the Army liaisons at home

00:07:34.640 contacted all of the next of kin and gave them the terrible news.

00:07:41.140 And while they were at home waiting, every time the phone rang,

00:07:44.460 every knock at the door, they would have to live with that fear.

00:07:49.480 On the 4th of July in 2007, I was still deployed in an IED ambush, like one of the ones I just mentioned, claimed the lives of six soldiers from the PPCLI after six men in my platoon were killed earlier in April on Easter Sunday.

00:08:05.820 One IED made up of three stacked up Italian anti-tank mines, just like the ones Omar Khadr is on video wiring together with his family.

00:08:16.580 and it had been the worst day for the Canadian Army

00:08:20.180 since the end of the Korean War.

00:08:22.220 And then on July 4th, once again,

00:08:24.820 an IED claimed six Canadian lives.

00:08:28.700 My father was at work, alone,

00:08:30.960 surrounded by people who had no involvement

00:08:32.540 and little care of what was going on.

00:08:34.540 To them, there was no war.

00:08:37.300 A kind of terror throughout that work day for him

00:08:40.980 that I can't and don't want to imagine the helplessness.

00:08:44.220 and he never complained.

00:08:48.820 He never begged me to come home.

00:08:53.140 He never got angry or frustrated

00:08:56.140 about what I had put him through

00:08:57.660 or how hard it was for him and my mother

00:09:01.260 and how much it must have taken out of them.

00:09:03.380 He never said a word.

00:09:05.900 To this day,

00:09:08.840 I might be the soldier of the family,

00:09:11.400 but I am my father's son, and he carried on bravely shouldering that weight for the family

00:09:17.760 as best he could as any good soldier does. And my father is not a loud man. He's not an aggressive

00:09:25.560 man, but he is one of the strongest men I've ever known. I remember him taking one day off sick from

00:09:32.780 work when I was six or seven years old because it was that rare. He's a steady, solid guy,

00:09:38.920 And I credit him very much for his example, being responsible for my own ability to endure.

00:09:46.060 I also saw up close the not-so-lucky outcomes, friends who did not return home in one piece,

00:09:54.000 whose mother and father did indeed get that knock at the door, and who did get that phone call,

00:10:01.160 and they were never the same.

00:10:02.580 Some of them developed addictions

00:10:06.380 Some of them never recovered

00:10:08.020 And their lives were destroyed

00:10:09.720 The death and the sacrifice

00:10:13.160 Does not end with the soldier's burial

00:10:15.040 If there's anything left to bury

00:10:17.620 It goes on

00:10:19.740 It permeates like ripples through a pond

00:10:21.880 Or a sound wave into space

00:10:23.280 For infinity

00:10:24.120 I can tell you with experience

00:10:26.640 That those wounds still exist

00:10:27.920 And those scars still ache

00:10:29.600 For a lot of people

00:10:31.040 And there's never been an explanation. There's never been an apology. There's never been justification. We're just left to live with the ruin of all of that. Our politicians don't care. They don't care about the Canadian people. They care about themselves. They care about their careers. They care about their ambitions.

00:10:54.360 what their wikipedia entry says about them if the media paints them in a good light if they feel

00:10:59.860 sufficiently worshipped and important that's what they care about i know intimately the damage it

00:11:06.260 does when a mother and father has to bury their son i've seen it and i thank god every day that

00:11:12.040 my family was spared that fate for a lie of a war that amounted to nothing more than white collar

00:11:20.620 crime and political theater

00:11:22.100 as you may be able to imagine

00:11:25.280 I feel a kinship of sorts

00:11:29.300 with the Canadian people

00:11:30.240 and around the world

00:11:31.700 who have lost

00:11:33.080 children, parents

00:11:35.000 brothers, sisters

00:11:36.500 their loved ones

00:11:37.300 because of a lie

00:11:40.260 because of cowardice

00:11:43.660 because of weakness

00:11:45.740 because of selfish ambition

00:11:47.540 ego and greed

00:11:49.260 they told us they told everybody among their many failures it was safe and effective didn't they

00:11:58.460 and wasn't it safe and effective not only was it safe and effective it was required if you wanted

00:12:05.380 to keep your job if you plan to keep feeding your family if you wanted to travel outside the

00:12:10.740 boundaries of this wonderful place you wanted to see your loved ones you want to participate

00:12:16.140 in public life if you wanted to have

00:12:18.220 any dignity as a human being

00:12:20.000 if you wanted to go to the gym if you wanted to go

00:12:22.100 to the beach or if you wanted

00:12:24.080 to play hockey

00:12:26.000 not everybody was so lucky

00:12:30.140 this is

00:12:36.140 Sean Hartman

00:12:36.780 he would be 22 years old today

00:12:40.260 he could

00:12:42.380 have even had a son of his own by now

00:12:44.080 really but he'll never get to be older than 17 because like most canadian boys he wanted to play

00:12:52.280 hockey he went without his father's knowledge spurned on by the bullying threats and gaslighting

00:13:01.180 of politicians and media to receive this critically necessary medical intervention

00:13:07.520 An experimental mRNA gene therapy injection.

00:13:13.320 Not long after, his father, Dan Hartman, woke up one morning to find his only son lifeless.

00:13:21.960 An independent autopsy in courts confirmed the injection was responsible for his death.

00:13:28.860 And Mr. Hartman grieves to this day.

00:13:31.340 He grieves to this day, and he won't let anyone forget, nor should he.

00:13:35.400 now he works tirelessly to get answers and justice not only for his son but for the literally

00:13:41.560 countless number of canadians that health canada refuses to track or disclose the numbers

00:13:47.120 of how many were harmed by this crime perplexing isn't it for a government that so frequently

00:13:53.580 grandstands its focus and intent on public safety if it saves just one life

00:14:01.520 their commitment to avoiding this very real situation of rapidly deteriorating public health

00:14:07.600 is more than two-faced it's complicity i know people will mute mr hartman's accounts and block

00:14:15.380 his posts because they don't want to see it they don't want to be brought down by it

00:14:19.160 i'm familiar with this behavior i know what it's like to live with a pain that most people

00:14:25.880 don't want to recognize or acknowledge they'd rather not look at it and how exhausting is it

00:14:33.500 when the answers aren't forthcoming you'll see in public and in private some others will say that

00:14:39.620 oh he needs to just move on but mr hartman can't move on how can he there has been no justice there

00:14:48.820 has been no answers in his mind and in the opinion of many others including medical professionals

00:14:54.460 His son was murdered by the state, by politicians, by the media, by a runaway mob of unaccountable, hysterical demons who now, confirming what many of us already knew, unquestioningly followed the lead of the now infamous, disgraced Dr. Death, Anthony Fauci.

00:15:14.500 Fauci the mouthpiece who leaned on the credibility of the CDC a premier world

00:15:20.300 organization the center for disease control prevention readiness instead he was wholly

00:15:26.320 entirely focused on enriching himself and inflating his ego at the expense of everyone

00:15:32.040 in America and around the world who followed America's lead he organized his taxpayer funded

00:15:38.900 staff to promote himself for cash awards and perks in private while publicly presenting himself as

00:15:46.060 some sort of hero to the ignorant frightened masses whom he took full advantage of after

00:15:52.740 everything that's happened. Trust the science is now pleading the fifth. He refuses to answer any

00:16:01.320 questions to Congress now that the contents of his diary, a more horrific and despicable display

00:16:07.960 of narcissism, you will be challenged to find a better example of. How many Canadian authorities

00:16:15.500 and experts were also using their authority and station to cash in? Unsurprisingly, thus far,

00:16:23.080 no one in politics or media seems particularly interested in investigating themselves.

00:16:29.980 If no one outside of yourself ever acknowledges pain you are experiencing,

00:16:34.920 there is an internal disconnect between you and what you are feeling in the world around you

00:16:41.640 like it it's not happening at all you're being gaslit you stay stuck you can't process what

00:16:48.520 happened because what did happen are you crazy is it your imagination because judging by everyone

00:16:55.300 in authority in canada nothing happened nothing has happened at all everything is normal and it

00:17:01.180 has been normal we're now even seeing some trying to insist the lockdowns the segregation abuse

00:17:08.820 the routine day-to-day manipulation and extreme excessively

00:17:13.600 disgusting abuses of human dignity and our rights and charter they didn't happen at all actually

00:17:20.680 deny deny deny to the end is the last refuge of a liar who is too much of a coward to confront

00:17:29.220 the reality of what they've done or who they really are.

00:17:34.580 Personally, I did the best that I could with what I had all those years to comfort, support,

00:17:41.140 and encourage people to stick together and not let the abusers manipulate them.

00:17:45.700 So I have no personal guilt there, but it's not the people you're successful in helping

00:17:54.280 or protecting that you think about,

00:17:56.540 it's the ones that you couldn't.

00:18:01.200 It's been over six years now

00:18:03.480 since that nightmare began

00:18:04.860 and the damage it caused

00:18:05.960 is still with us.

00:18:08.440 It's still ongoing.

00:18:09.520 And it's still hurting people today.

00:18:19.100 I want to say something

00:18:20.420 that they're all too afraid to say.

00:18:24.280 And they aren't man enough to say.

00:18:27.740 And it needs to be said.

00:18:30.040 It needs to be acknowledged by someone.

00:18:34.040 God damn it.

00:18:36.360 So please,

00:18:38.980 if you'll indulge me for a second,

00:18:41.620 it is real.

00:18:45.800 It did happen.

00:18:48.760 You are not crazy.

00:18:52.480 I'm sorry.

00:18:55.040 I'm sorry that any of this happened to you.

00:18:58.300 You didn't ask for this.

00:18:59.840 You didn't deserve this.

00:19:01.800 And it's not your fault.

00:19:04.560 It's not your fault.

00:19:07.420 It's theirs.

00:19:13.400 This isn't about you.

00:19:14.940 This isn't about our future.

00:19:16.060 This isn't about the country.

00:19:17.280 For them, this is about making money,

00:19:21.780 building their ego, selfish, greedy,

00:19:24.760 They're paid more than they've ever been.

00:19:26.760 They vote to give themselves pay raises.

00:19:29.440 They receive more benefits in a single year to compensate travel, housing, and meals than the average Canadian worker makes in a year.

00:19:38.360 Backbench rookie, silent and compliant members of Parliament can take upwards of $50,000 to $100,000 in those benefits on top of their salary of $217,000.

00:19:49.060 All told, they make well over triple the average person that they claim to represent.

00:19:57.860 They didn't have to suffer these indignities and these betrayals.

00:20:02.000 They were busy administering them while enjoying their newfound addiction to power.

00:20:06.720 They laughed and they spit in our faces,

00:20:09.160 drunk on that power and didn't consider there would ever possibly be a hangover.

00:20:14.160 They weren't interested in investigating for answers.

00:20:19.060 To what's going on with the vaccine and the side effects, the injuries, the blood clots, the blindness, the paralysis, the exploding rates of cancer, the sudden coincidences.

00:20:31.260 Most are still pretending that this isn't happening, but it is happening.

00:20:35.560 Is there anyone left among us whose families have not been touched by a sudden illness, suddenly very sick or suddenly very dead?

00:20:43.540 and only now with too many early graves in the rearview mirror do they begin to reluctantly

00:20:53.140 broach the subject not because it was always the right thing to do but because the conservative

00:20:57.540 party is crumbling to dust and searching for any issue they can cling to to stem the bleeding

00:21:04.180 and find some relevance but they won't touch any of the real major bleeds

00:21:09.200 why would they they themselves were willing participants in the cutting

00:21:15.360 birth rates are declining and there's more than just a few pieces of evidence to suggest

00:21:21.600 you know like a spike in infant mortality that this issue is at least at the very least

00:21:27.960 worth looking into but be warned if you're a police officer looking into that abnormal spike

00:21:34.560 of infant deaths

00:21:36.220 like Detective Helen Gruse,

00:21:39.080 you may find yourself being chastised,

00:21:40.940 targeted, slandered, and out of a job

00:21:42.780 while being investigated yourself.

00:21:45.440 More resources were dedicated

00:21:46.780 to persecuting Helen

00:21:47.840 than were ever allocated into finding out

00:21:50.420 why so many people who should be alive

00:21:53.340 are dead!

00:21:58.060 Public Safety Canada

00:21:59.780 heard it work again

00:22:01.380 at their very well-paying jobs.

00:22:04.460 Great job, guys.

00:22:05.740 You're doing great.

00:22:07.860 I myself was investigated by the RCMP,

00:22:10.460 the Saskatoon Police, the Halifax Police,

00:22:12.300 the Ontario Provincial Police,

00:22:14.500 CSIS and presumably more for years

00:22:17.000 and ongoing for talking.

00:22:20.100 Even the Five Eyes intelligence community

00:22:21.900 was briefed about how dangerous I am.

00:22:24.860 A national warrant, denied bail,

00:22:27.460 treated like a terrorist,

00:22:29.980 treated like a criminal for talking.

00:22:31.640 charged with crimes that didn't take place and here yet we have ample evidence that something

00:22:39.440 is happening and something is very wrong in the national health profile of the Canadian population

00:22:45.620 where are our top doctors I didn't realize there was a formal competitive ranking system by the

00:22:52.380 way for doctors where is everyone's hero and Fauci acolyte Teresa Tam at one point you couldn't get

00:23:00.720 out of your face or ear and now there was never a formal announcement to the end of the COVID era

00:23:10.640 no declaration on the normalization of our day-to-day they just quietly slowly and then

00:23:15.680 very quickly ran away cash in hand like they just robbed the bank and now when we're questioned

00:23:22.660 about it I don't have any idea what you're referring to I don't know I plead the fifth

00:23:27.620 we're finding more and more connections between the canadian government and the chinese communist

00:23:34.640 party aren't we but we're not finding any reconciliation validation any investigation

00:23:41.260 they don't respect us enough to bother even faking insincere words of support

00:23:47.260 because they're guilty they'll always apologize for something that someone else has done

00:23:54.440 but never for themselves it's fake it's as fake as they are and it's too late for words

00:24:00.720 which brings me to the main reason i'm speaking to you now tonight this isn't

00:24:08.640 a problem that's unique to canada it's consistent all over the european world

00:24:15.100 some say that politics is just reality tv entertainment for ugly people

00:24:19.540 it's a false dichotomy

00:24:24.200 one that has devolved

00:24:26.500 into the political theater of left and right

00:24:29.060 the left wing and the right wing

00:24:32.300 the liberals and the conservatives

00:24:33.380 the democrats and the republicans

00:24:34.920 these are different like

00:24:38.460 hockey franchises are different

00:24:40.400 the boston bruins and the new york rangers

00:24:42.500 what's really the difference

00:24:44.740 they've got different colored costumes on

00:24:47.220 but they can trade themselves back and forth

00:24:49.400 between rival teams, rival companies,

00:24:51.260 hire and fire each other's rival employees.

00:24:55.660 Today, whether we like it or not,

00:24:58.620 all of us are engaged in a spiritual war.

00:25:04.200 Labels, names, and brands are all surface level and superficial.

00:25:09.180 The spirit goes deep to the core of a person

00:25:11.580 where their true character is,

00:25:13.680 not the color of an election sign.

00:25:15.640 the politicians pose to represent one side resisting the other the truth the light against

00:25:22.980 darkness but on the inside they're the same dark and empty like an abandoned shipping container

00:25:31.000 and it is a very sad thing that many of the good-spirited hard-working and honest

00:25:37.960 canadian people that count themselves as conservatives have only this limp toothless

00:25:43.740 imposter of a party filled with foreigners and led by craven vampires to speak for them

00:25:48.960 there's nothing canadian about them and i pity their supporters they deserve much better

00:25:56.200 the conservative party are the kinds of people who we've seen will stand up and say yes

00:26:03.160 canada all of this lunacy disrespect and abuse that you've endured under the treacherous and

00:26:09.480 insidious liberal party for more than 10 years must end. I will be your voice, and I will stand

00:26:17.020 in opposition to them in Ottawa on your behalf if you vote for me.

00:26:28.220 And so they did. Many people did vote for them, and what happened?

00:26:33.040 what happened when it became clear to these parasites that they had chosen the losing side

00:26:42.140 of course they weren't bribed or pressured or promised anything in that way that would be

00:26:47.100 illegal so instead what happened allegedly according to them was something uh like this

00:26:53.520 oh canada i'm so sorry actually i've been gravely mistaken it turns out that i have in fact

00:27:04.640 drastically miscalculated and when i looked in the mirror i saw a completely different person

00:27:09.860 than i thought i was i know that i said that i heard your cries and your suffering

00:27:16.480 and that i understood and i'd be your voice and champion and all that stuff

00:27:21.080 i agreed to defend your way of life from you know a malevolent force on our lives but as it turns out

00:27:29.000 i have it completely backwards it's ottawa i want to be the voice for against you because well

00:27:37.720 they have bags of money and pension promises for me so i'm a liberal now and after this of course

00:27:44.400 truthful sincere realization that i've had in my come to satan moment that i'm actually in support

00:27:50.500 of the very swine you were desperate to be rid of. So instead of resign with a shred of integrity

00:27:55.260 and run again for the other side under the proper banners and colors, I will just walk over to the

00:28:02.040 other team and that I pretended to oppose. I took advantage of your desperation and pain. I'll be

00:28:07.680 keeping your money, keeping this pension, keeping this elevated station in life. It never meant

00:28:11.640 anything. It was never real. I never really cared about you. This is the kind of person

00:28:21.620 that passed for a leader, a community leader in the conservative party.

00:28:31.160 That's our democracy they're so concerned about. That's Canadian democracy,

00:28:35.640 that they proved themselves with their own selfishness and their own greed. They proved

00:28:40.420 that your choices are an illusion.

00:28:44.140 It doesn't matter.

00:28:45.560 It doesn't exist.

00:28:47.460 There is no real difference

00:28:49.020 between the so-called left and right.

00:28:51.260 Where it matters,

00:28:53.560 in here.

00:28:56.560 The politicians in this country are not leaders.

00:28:59.280 They're middle management at best.

00:29:01.520 They're light bulbs that when they burn out

00:29:03.260 after four years to eight years,

00:29:05.220 maybe 10 to 12 if they're lucky,

00:29:07.620 they get replaced by a superficially different

00:29:10.140 but functionally identical light bulb.

00:29:15.080 People do get tired of them.

00:29:17.240 They burn out.

00:29:18.380 So we just replace them and it restarts the clock.

00:29:21.500 The pressure valve is temporarily released

00:29:22.960 and for a time the people can lie to themselves

00:29:24.820 and go back to normal.

00:29:27.080 Everything's going to be fine now

00:29:28.340 because we've swapped out the light bulb

00:29:30.280 on the nightlight.

00:29:32.020 Now we can go back to sleep.

00:29:35.960 We are living under an unaccountable,

00:29:39.060 unchecked and illegitimate tyranny this is not democracy it is a cynical joke

00:29:46.680 it is pretend the canadian people have no say in canada we are increasingly more and more forced

00:29:54.420 to march to the beat and tune of foreign drums from china india and israel and anyone else with

00:30:00.220 a few spare amazon prime subscriptions that buys our cheap politicians while the problematic white

00:30:07.080 supremacist sound of our grandfather's trumpets and bagpipes fades away.

00:30:15.320 The average Canadian who does not have the time and motivation that I've had to investigate and

00:30:21.060 examine this with the same kind of attention to detail that I was trained to take to war.

00:30:25.920 They're justifiably too busy trying to survive from one meal to the next,

00:30:30.140 hang on to their faster and faster disappearing employment, safety, and quality of life.

00:30:34.800 to have very much left in the tank at the end of the day.

00:30:39.160 Too many still blindly trust and believe that our system is legitimate,

00:30:43.500 that there is an unpopular government that no one wants around,

00:30:47.680 so what to do?

00:30:48.640 Well, you throw your support behind the other team.

00:30:51.720 Blue tie, red tie, red tie, blue tie.

00:30:55.120 Sometimes we'll even throw in an orange tie for fun,

00:30:57.380 or maybe we'll have Elizabeth May dance for you

00:30:59.580 with tequila bottles in both hands.

00:31:01.100 to the burned out and overwhelmed person who doesn't know any better it makes sense

00:31:08.340 if this red team party is horrendous and this blue one agrees with me that they are horrendous

00:31:15.560 wants to get rid of them and they'll take over and get rid of them so shouldn't we support them

00:31:22.060 in doing so shouldn't we doesn't that just make sense this whole time when they themselves were

00:31:29.020 right there we are all in this together erin o'toole stood right there with the rest of them

00:31:37.880 all of the party in lockstep yes stay home stay safe mrs polyev enthusiastically reminded everyone

00:31:44.580 to hashtag stay the fuck home she's swearing at you she's demanding it she's angry do what you're

00:31:52.500 told stay the fuck home or else what or else you can't play hockey kid

00:31:58.820 is that what you mean they had every opportunity to say something make a real stand and face the

00:32:09.520 consequences as millions of canadians did they chose not to they chose the easy comfortable road

00:32:15.640 what do these totally different political clubs differ on it's not the carbon tax it's not the

00:32:23.480 lgbtqqip2saa indoctrination it's not the drag queen story time it's not the war in iran it's

00:32:31.660 not the war in ukraine it's not any war they love war they love every war that they don't have to

00:32:35.920 fight themselves they love killing people they love sending our weapons our soldiers and our

00:32:41.360 hard-earned treasure, our hopes and dreams and our future, off to the four corners of the world.

00:32:51.260 And then so they can stand up on television and lecture us about courage and sacrifice

00:32:56.580 so that they can fatten their egos to match their bank accounts.

00:33:01.500 They love their migrants. They love mass immigration. They love the new built-back

00:33:06.320 better at Canada and call anyone who wants to go home a racist, a monster, a terrorist,

00:33:12.080 and they have the audacity to call us traitors. For years, the conservative loyalist diehards

00:33:18.540 mocked relentlessly, Mr. Dress Up, Trudeau's fetish for wearing an alien costume and pandering

00:33:23.740 to foreigners. Pierre Polyev has dressed up, sang, and danced for Indian, Chinese, and Jewish money

00:33:33.200 as much or more than trudeau ever did and he's only the opposition leader

00:33:39.660 they will laughably stand there in their cheap suits hand-stitched in threads of hypocrisy and

00:33:47.200 betrayal and with a straight face attempt to lay claim to what is and what is not canadian

00:33:55.340 no no no no no no we are the people of this nation we are canada we were not paid and

00:34:06.880 entrusted to manage the future to make decisions on behalf of the nation for that future in our

00:34:12.640 collective interests i was never given the responsibility or paid to do so neither were

00:34:17.320 any of the people watching you were and you are the politicians they make over three times the

00:34:25.820 amount that the average joe does and why shouldn't they they're doing such a good job aren't they

00:34:30.500 there's some of the highest paid politicians on earth they have a generous pension that just

00:34:34.500 after six years of service while policemen firemen soldiers they need to give 25 years

00:34:41.480 or more in exchange for a much less generous one. The overwhelming majority of Canadians will never

00:34:48.320 come within throwing distance to the kinds of benefits, pay, pensions, and standard of living

00:34:53.940 that these slugs enjoy. And to do what exactly? Agree with each other. Trade shirts. All day,

00:35:02.760 every day, pretend to fight over inconsequential nonsense like bike lanes, minor disagreements

00:35:08.580 and how best to implement the progress of an agenda that was handed down to them

00:35:12.500 by unelected ruling elite at Bilderberg, Davos, the WEF, and the devil himself.

00:35:19.900 When is the last time that you ever heard a public conversation or an argument,

00:35:25.140 a debate, in that godforsaken building,

00:35:28.140 between any of them that ever amounted to anything at all?

00:35:32.180 Online safety bills, criminalizing speech, thought and expression,

00:35:35.680 confiscation of firearms taking political prisoners criminalizing dissent continues unopposed

00:35:41.060 they don't have the stones to face it so instead they argue the minutiae of who spent more money

00:35:47.260 on champagne and liquor bottles as they flew around the world mortgaging our future

00:35:51.700 lost in a storm many look for some kind of landmark um stability familiarity to reorient

00:36:01.620 themselves so they look back at the harper era and say see when the conservatives were in charge

00:36:07.220 everything was so much better well i have a memory and it still works and i remember the country

00:36:14.120 saying we have to get harper out we got to get harper out there was unreasonable detention and

00:36:20.700 arrest without cause it's made law government spying on citizens implementing police state

00:36:24.860 bills that the liberals are now wielding and treating protesters not as concerned citizens

00:36:29.640 but as potential terrorists, all of that began with the Harper regime.

00:36:35.240 I had this conversation with my father in our kitchen one day,

00:36:37.980 and he said, all my life, I've been voting somebody out.

00:36:44.760 Vote them out. We've got to get them out.

00:36:48.400 For once, I would just love to vote somebody in.

00:36:54.780 We aren't permitted to have real options.

00:36:56.600 we're not permitted to have people that we want to support we're forced to choose between bad and

00:37:03.380 worse they say better the devil you know it's better than that it could be worse at least it's

00:37:08.580 not this is a slave mentality sure it can be worse but why is that your default it can also

00:37:17.580 always be better too when did we stop trying when did we stop looking up

00:37:22.740 this is the nation of johnny mcdonald this is the nation that resisted american conquest twice

00:37:30.920 that carved out a railway from the atlantic to the pacific through the maritimes through

00:37:36.000 quebec and ontario through the prairies and through the rocky mountains

00:37:39.500 we overcame this geographical challenge and every inch of this place has to offer

00:37:45.700 and before both world wars did you know that our military was barely

00:37:49.700 a shambling token scarecrow of a force but we managed to produce something that competed with

00:37:56.320 and outperformed the best in the world when Halifax was destroyed by an explosion so enormous

00:38:04.920 that it would only be surpassed decades later by the atomic bombing of Japan we just rebuilt it

00:38:13.040 now those mighty people are reduced to voicing their legitimate grievances

00:38:19.340 with a piece of paper and a pencil we vote in pencil in this country

00:38:24.940 you can't write your high school exams in pencil because we can't risk or trust anyone not to cheat

00:38:30.660 we have standards but you can certainly vote with pencil in a federal election with sweeping

00:38:38.380 consequences that will affect generations to come. Mail-in ballots, too. Gee, where did you get that

00:38:44.020 idea? In the United States, by chance. How legitimate are the elections in this country?

00:38:51.880 Is it still legal to ask? I'm not certain that they are. We often find tens of thousands of

00:38:58.440 ballots uncounted, damaged, misplaced in numbers that would have altered the outcome.

00:39:04.440 Discrepancies are everywhere.

00:39:05.720 Volunteer scrutineers, some who we know personally,

00:39:08.760 successfully applied and were able to pose as a representative

00:39:11.620 from every party simultaneously in the same polling station.

00:39:17.420 Friends of mine have had the pleasure of discovering that

00:39:20.580 they, just like some of the conservative politicians have recently discovered,

00:39:25.800 they've actually been liberals this whole time.

00:39:31.220 Imagine that.

00:39:32.160 surprise, my friend Matthew decided to get engaged in the electoral process after decades of apathy.

00:39:44.080 He thought, you know what, I'm going to take a stand and I'm going to get involved. It's the

00:39:48.000 least I can do. I'm going to go down there and do that. I'm going to get involved in the civic

00:39:52.360 practice of Canadian democracy. But it turned out that he'd actually already been voting liberal

00:39:59.960 for years. He was told, I'm sorry, Mr. Copeland of New Brunswick. It appears you've already voted.

00:40:08.720 How much more of this is going on? Has anyone looked? Can anyone look? Or is that criminal

00:40:14.380 hate speech as well? We've seen widespread voter fraud in the United States, and we believe

00:40:20.740 that this can't be happening here. We're the same infamous Dominion voting machines used

00:40:28.120 that, if you recall, had a slight hiccup of a six-hour delay

00:40:32.200 during the conservative leadership vote

00:40:33.720 that placed Aaron O'Toole in charge

00:40:35.100 after a record number of mail-in ballots.

00:40:40.460 This is a $2 trillion economy.

00:40:42.740 Do you think criminals and liars aren't interested

00:40:44.720 in stealing what we have?

00:40:46.720 Of course they are.

00:40:48.420 Of course it's happening.

00:40:50.000 Especially with the blinding buffoonery of CESIS protecting us

00:40:53.940 who have already demonstrated that they can't determine

00:40:57.020 the difference between a goat figurine and Abu al-Baghdadi. Pick up your crayon, Canada,

00:41:08.120 and choose one of these terrible options. This is the best we have to offer, so pick one or

00:41:12.720 shove it up your nose and shut up about it. I reject your premise, but I will pretend for a

00:41:23.340 moment that this is on the up and up and as sick and twisted as canada has become it would never

00:41:29.460 meddle with the sacred religious practice of moving that would be blasphemy

00:41:35.600 the conservative party certainly isn't shy about their new friends and identifiable groups

00:41:44.220 that it's now illegal to criticize from 2006 to 2015 the temporary foreign workers program

00:41:51.680 was significantly expanded and helped employers take advantage of the low-skill labor market.

00:41:59.240 Advertising requirements were shortened,

00:42:01.700 so employers could advertise for jobs as little as one or two weeks

00:42:05.240 before applying for the subsidized by you, the Canadian taxpayer,

00:42:10.960 discounted foreign workers.

00:42:12.340 Oh, there's just no Canadians that want to work.

00:42:14.420 We looked high and low.

00:42:15.960 Sure you did, Tim Hortons.

00:42:17.260 they approved the elmo process offering faster approvals for businesses to get foreign workers

00:42:23.500 rules on wages were relaxed allowing pay below the standard wage and predictably numbers rose

00:42:30.100 sharply temporary work permits doubled and approved positions doubled between the mid-2000s

00:42:38.960 and 2012 the growth impacted sectors most prominently like food service hospitality and

00:42:46.780 retail, entry-level jobs that retirees or Canadian youth had always utilized to enter

00:42:52.500 the workforce. The faces of that cute girl from school or friendly 60-year-old grandmother

00:42:57.500 in those shops and services we all remember are gone in 2026. And it was Harper's conservatives

00:43:03.200 that opened the door for the Liberal Party. Harper approved the China National Offshore

00:43:10.000 Oil Corporation takeover of Nixon, a major Canadian energy company, the first of many.

00:43:16.780 to be taken by china beginning of things to come then there was the unthinkable

00:43:21.460 betrayal and backstabbing of the canadian veteran in 2006 just as combat operations were

00:43:28.920 to ramp up in afghanistan and carrying with it a marked increase in fighting and casualties of

00:43:33.380 course in kandahar province the cpc saw to it to implement the new veterans charter they replaced

00:43:41.620 the long-held traditional system of lifelong disability pensions for pain and suffering

00:43:45.780 With one-time lump sum awards, critics said this would come with a range of a 30 to 90% reduction in long-term support funding.

00:43:57.260 Fiscally responsible.

00:43:59.820 Veterans Affairs offices were closed in Sydney, Cornerbrook, Charlottetown, Thunder Bay, Windsor, Brandon, Saskatoon, Kelowna, and Prince George.

00:44:06.040 And on top of that, they fired over a quarter of the staff.

00:44:11.320 At a time when they were and are now.

00:44:15.780 needed more than ever since the korean war hundreds of millions and potentially billions

00:44:20.600 in some reports and funding meant to go to veterans was not spent and instead returned to

00:44:27.060 ottawa's pockets

00:44:29.020 the conservators wanted to please their zionist masters in america and israel and committed our

00:44:36.400 men deeper and deeper into sustained combat operations for a quagmire of a war that had

00:44:41.060 no clear objectives and no obvious victory conditions they wanted to look like a big

00:44:46.260 tough wartime serious business government they were happy to make someone else do the fighting

00:44:53.000 and dying they just didn't want to pay the bill for it pulling the plug on funding had a severe

00:45:00.620 impact on our overall ability to support our soldiers go ahead ignore it if you want but the

00:45:06.660 undeniable truth is the conservative party is responsible for getting more of our soldiers

00:45:12.020 killed on and off the battlefield than the liberals ever have the incoming safety laws

00:45:19.180 that threaten to kill free speech and free expression in canada forever will be a tough

00:45:23.580 hill to climb and getting repealed since the conservatives left an unprecedented 22 seats in

00:45:28.500 the senate unfilled that they knew full well would be taken advantage of by the liberal party

00:45:32.800 to stack with activists and guess what they did exactly that

00:45:36.600 they failed in other words

00:45:42.300 they've been doing nothing but failing since 1965 and it's been a very very long time

00:45:48.960 since the will or interest of the canadian people has been served in this country

00:45:52.320 there has been rhetoric focused on restoring freedom and giving canadians back control of

00:45:58.640 their lives but the uncomforting words what's happened has any of it come true

00:46:03.720 the typical canadian worker labors for 30 days off a year while these overpaid bloated vampires

00:46:13.180 enjoy 10 to 13 weeks off for summer six to eight weeks off for christmas another one to two weeks

00:46:18.660 off for break in the spring and that's of course assuming they don't have an off year like in 2025

00:46:23.680 where in parliament only sat for 72 whole days the lowest in over 80 years

00:46:29.380 at a time when the nation is very obviously coming apart at the seams all around us

00:46:34.600 the performance standards of the toronto maple leafs are higher than that of our elected officials

00:46:40.060 and leaders the politicians have no such standard to live up to no pressure to perform they can fail

00:46:47.100 and fail and fail again and then they can come back for another pay raise while encouraging you

00:46:53.640 to cheer for how well they failed this year or how much better they failed this year than last year

00:46:59.120 they call themselves the conservative party but

00:47:02.920 what have they conserved can they tell you can they tell themselves

00:47:09.280 in our time of need and national crisis when canadians led the world

00:47:16.960 in pushing back and saying, no, it was the Canadian people who made a stand. Politicians

00:47:22.580 didn't do that. They had absolutely nothing to do with that. They threw some crumbs and played

00:47:29.160 it safe. Meek, mild, barely there. Messages of support so thin and so vague. You're not even

00:47:35.500 sure what you heard. What would have been better, Conservative Party, than empty words and photo

00:47:43.080 ops for your portfolios would have been if your caucus had gotten off of your fat asses walked

00:47:49.540 outside of the building to where the biggest demonstration by Canadians in the nation's

00:47:53.300 history was taking place and stood in an extended line arm in arm in front in front of the protesters

00:48:02.060 stand between them and the liberal thugs that Ottawa had dispatched to hurt them and didn't

00:48:09.740 day? To beat them with guns, trample them with horses, freeze their bank accounts, and take

00:48:13.700 political prisoners for thought crimes, which is still happening. Are they the opposition to the

00:48:22.540 liberal tyranny, or aren't they? Are they representatives of our communities, or aren't

00:48:28.760 they? Are they the leaders of our people, or aren't they? They wouldn't dare. They wouldn't

00:48:36.900 dare risk their pension and their status while Canadians, truckers, risked and lost their

00:48:43.860 businesses, their licenses, their livelihoods, their freedom. Another concession, another

00:48:51.760 need taken by the Conservative Party, who have succeeded in conserving nothing but themselves.

00:49:01.420 Canada has been forced to accept a dramatically reduced standard of living. They've lost jobs

00:49:06.340 and income, their career path, everything they've trained and worked hard for. Five,

00:49:10.300 10, 15 years, longer, all down the toilet, all gone.

00:49:14.500 But hey, let's not bother any of them with that right now.

00:49:18.420 They're on vacation. Again.

00:49:24.760 Deeds, not words.

00:49:27.380 I see a lot of words. I don't see any real deeds. Just one failure

00:49:30.420 after another. One excuse that follows the next.

00:49:33.100 which brings me to

00:49:37.220 Alberta

00:49:38.960 Alberta

00:49:44.720 how did it come to this

00:49:49.080 you see

00:49:51.420 people love a good story

00:49:53.260 we don't just love them

00:49:55.540 we need them

00:49:56.180 our society

00:49:57.780 our imaginations

00:49:59.660 our ideas

00:50:00.320 our values

00:50:00.880 our hopes

00:50:01.360 our fears

00:50:01.860 dreams

00:50:02.340 nightmares

00:50:03.800 Since we were children and going back centuries, stories were how we learned about the world and how we learned about ourselves.

00:50:11.280 It's how our memories were retained, how our identities were shaped and passed on.

00:50:18.240 When the last pages have been written, our story is what defines who we were and who we were not.

00:50:28.760 and tells our children how they got here,

00:50:32.700 who they are, where they could go,

00:50:35.180 and what's possible.

00:50:38.820 Never underestimate the value and power of a good story.

00:50:43.160 And at this point in the story, we have Alberta,

00:50:47.960 an economic engine, the oil fields, energy sector,

00:50:52.460 Alberta beef on the prairies, steel toes and hard hats,

00:50:56.300 pickup trucks and grid dirt roads.

00:50:58.760 A large contingent of the convoy to Ottawa came from Alberta in those pickup trucks.

00:51:04.400 They drove for days through the snow and ice to join their brothers and sisters from around the country,

00:51:09.640 standing in defiance and support on the doorstep of the tumor, the lair of deceit and corruption,

00:51:16.620 their vehicles and themselves proudly decorated in Canadian flags.

00:51:26.000 But it didn't go the way that many had hoped.

00:51:28.760 Despite the polite request from the Canadian people for Ottawa to kindly check itself, the liars and cheats continued lying and cheating.

00:51:40.460 The protest was violently subdued by thugs, bank accounts and businesses were seized by the state, and its most prominent national voices were taken as political prisoners, myself included.

00:51:50.040 In a toxic and an abusive relationship where the victim is being routinely manipulated, lied to, taken advantage of, and disrespected, would you call them unreasonable for just thinking out loud that maybe it's time to consider ending the relationship?

00:52:08.980 or ending an abusive, sadistic stepfather's influence on your life

00:52:19.060 makes it unbearable, a life without dignity, a life without a future?

00:52:23.400 Would it be crazy for someone living under some kind of monster

00:52:27.340 of a stepfather like that to say as soon as they leave for work,

00:52:31.200 disappear around the corner, I'll just, I'll start packing.

00:52:35.060 I'll pack everything, just get in the car, just leave, just leave,

00:52:37.700 just go anywhere, doesn't matter, but I have to get the hell out of here now, today.

00:52:47.720 That thinking is not driven by ambition, vision, an uplifting spirit, or even just cold pragmatism.

00:52:56.620 It's driven by pain, disrespect, and abuse.

00:53:05.700 Am I wrong?

00:53:07.700 some of those same people who wore their national pride like a cape

00:53:12.160 now reject and spit on that same symbol,

00:53:16.280 the same kind of veiled disappointment that any heartbroken person does.

00:53:20.860 They watched the electoral map of the nation on television

00:53:25.080 bleed red everywhere east of Saskatchewan.

00:53:30.360 And in their exhaustion and desperation,

00:53:33.600 After the convoy and the years of exploitation and mockery, they did what everybody does when they feel like they aren't seen, they aren't heard, and they aren't appreciated.

00:53:45.140 They withdraw inward, they distance themselves, and they start to see everyone outside as a potential enemy.

00:53:52.600 It's just easier.

00:53:54.460 It's a survival mechanism to simplify the situation so that you can move toward some form of definitive action

00:54:00.920 that might lift you out of a seemingly endless and inescapable punishment.

00:54:08.120 Their leaders and voices began to see themselves as outsiders in their own country.

00:54:15.400 While some of those voices are being directed by foreign agents south of the border and elsewhere,

00:54:20.200 there are people who stand to benefit from prying Alberta out of Canada.

00:54:23.660 and none of them are Canadian or Albertan.

00:54:29.300 But why not just leave?

00:54:31.720 What should stop you?

00:54:33.760 You're possibly the largest,

00:54:36.460 cohesive centralization of the Canadian people.

00:54:39.520 You have the economic engine,

00:54:41.620 the resources, the manpower to stay afloat.

00:54:44.100 You have good relationships in the United States to help you.

00:54:47.980 Of all the provinces,

00:54:50.620 you might have the best chance to escape

00:54:52.440 And it might be true that of all the provinces, you could be the strongest one.

00:54:58.700 So why not?

00:55:00.820 Why not pack your bags and get away from this abusive monster and leave this house forever?

00:55:14.700 A long time ago, when I was a young man, I was in the infantry.

00:55:20.660 I was very new.

00:55:22.440 I wasn't more than 130 pounds, and we were several hours into a very long forced march.

00:55:28.940 I was carrying one of the heavier machine guns.

00:55:31.840 The extra ammunition, the spare barrels, it sucked.

00:55:34.900 I had significant blistering on both feet in brand new boots that I hadn't worked in.

00:55:39.580 I often like to learn the hard way.

00:55:42.160 I burned my hand on a gun barrel the previous day.

00:55:45.240 The weight of my helmet even began to make it painful of a chore for my neck

00:55:49.700 to keep my head lifted up.

00:55:52.440 from the ground. Everything hurt. My legs felt held down by gravity like they were underwater

00:55:59.680 with every step. I was carrying almost as much as I weighed. I today still have a lingering back

00:56:05.820 injury from that very March. I was physically suffering more than I ever had in my young life

00:56:12.820 to that point. I was beginning to really internally panic because there was no end in sight.

00:56:18.540 I had no way of knowing how much longer this would continue.

00:56:24.220 We'd just been in the field for weeks, running attack exercises, digging defenses, perimeter patrols,

00:56:29.800 and fending off imaginary attackers throughout the night.

00:56:35.140 And so in my pain and sleep-deprived stupor, all I could do was continue to stumble forward and curse my eye.

00:56:46.140 one of the smallest guys in the platoon

00:56:49.480 is carrying the heaviest gear.

00:56:52.600 Why me?

00:56:56.960 Because, private,

00:56:59.060 if you can't do the hardest parts of this job

00:57:02.560 in bad conditions on the worst day of your life,

00:57:07.240 then you cannot do this job.

00:57:13.340 And it's not to deny you or hold you back

00:57:15.500 is to protect the army

00:57:18.600 and to protect you.

00:57:26.560 I wanted so badly

00:57:28.120 to be a soldier my whole life.

00:57:31.280 It felt like my future and my dream

00:57:33.180 was just passing through my hands.

00:57:37.400 If I didn't complete this march,

00:57:39.380 I'd be sent home as a failure.

00:57:45.500 That early morning in the light rain on a dirt road in August, almost 23 years ago to the day, was my new standard of hell.

00:58:00.660 I am a stubborn guy, the son of a Scottishman's bloodline, but I wasn't the only one suffering or the only one carrying an outsized amount of gear.

00:58:09.700 There were two other men, one several ranks ahead of me, and there was one several ranks behind.

00:58:16.520 The one behind me, he was struggling badly to the point of tears.

00:58:21.600 Another frail kid from St. John, New Brunswick.

00:58:24.820 The man in front of me was a 25-year-old former CFL player from Ontario.

00:58:30.160 He was 6'4 and a 230-pound machine whose physical endurance and power was never in question.

00:58:36.020 and it's moments like those that I'll forever be grateful for that taught me so much about

00:58:43.960 life, what it means to be Canadian, and I hope that you'll appreciate it too.

00:58:51.100 Because you see, we weren't just being tested as individuals.

00:58:54.560 The Army, in every piece down to the smallest unit, is a team. It needs to be tightly bonded,

00:59:00.980 more like family if it will have any hope of facing the horrors the strain the stress

00:59:06.020 the fear and the intensity of combat and survive the enemy is too big and can only be overcome

00:59:11.980 together as a unit no one man makes an army or a family and no army or family is effective

00:59:19.280 and at its best if it's missing pieces of itself the better the team works together the better the

00:59:26.180 individuals in that team become. The better the individuals become, the better the team works

00:59:31.380 together. It's a symbiotic feedback loop of investing your own strength and spirit into the

00:59:37.400 whole that you can then all draw upon together. That CFL player could hear the suffering behind

00:59:49.180 him. He kept looking back. A lot of us did. And he later revealed to me that he didn't much enjoy

00:59:54.540 that long walk himself, but there was something that he knew that I could see in his eyes

01:00:00.720 every time he looked behind him. He knew that this man at the back was not going to make

01:00:07.740 it, and he also knew that he was the strongest guy we had. We were all exhausted and doing

01:00:17.700 our best. Tough guy, fake tough guy faces when I watched him step out of the ranks to

01:00:23.620 the side of the road. He stopped walking as if he was giving up. We made eye contact as I walked

01:00:31.260 past him. He had blue eyes. He looked firmly resolved, almost angry. I thought maybe he'd

01:00:40.820 gotten injured or something. And I couldn't see what was happening behind me, but I could hear it.

01:00:47.780 come on buddy I got you come on buddy here give me that give me that too yeah it's okay it's okay

01:00:56.540 man here take this take mine yeah hey hey hey buddy hey man look look at me you gotta come with

01:01:04.020 me okay I need your help I need your help he was the strongest and he did exactly what the strongest

01:01:14.560 does. He stopped

01:01:18.780 and waited for the faltering man behind him, behind me, behind everyone, to catch

01:01:22.880 up. He didn't chastise him. He didn't mock

01:01:26.860 him or he didn't tell him to quit. Instead, he reassured

01:01:30.880 him. And then he took much of this man's

01:01:34.920 extra gear and his rucksack

01:01:37.480 on top of his own, grabbed him by the arm

01:01:42.760 and said, come with me.

01:01:44.720 I need your help.

01:01:50.860 And he did.

01:01:54.140 He started shuffling.

01:01:55.820 He started moving.

01:01:58.580 They started to jog and quickly caught up

01:02:00.380 to the rest of the platoon.

01:02:01.760 Everyone else had saw and heard what was happening

01:02:03.600 and kind of like electricity all through the ranks,

01:02:06.540 we felt something I had never experienced before.

01:02:09.780 An energy.

01:02:12.760 had befallen us somehow

01:02:16.060 and refilled our gas tanks just enough.

01:02:19.680 It still hurt. Everything still hurt.

01:02:21.380 It still sucked, but we didn't care very much anymore.

01:02:25.760 In that one moment,

01:02:27.780 we were motivated by one

01:02:30.860 unusual, uncommon act

01:02:34.320 of self-sacrifice and courage that reminded us

01:02:36.820 what it was we were doing,

01:02:38.840 who we are, and who we are aspiring to be.

01:02:47.300 Others started encouraging each other and asking around

01:02:49.640 if anyone else needed a break, needed water, needed anything.

01:02:52.980 Our 40-something-year-old Canadian Airborne Regiment

01:02:56.240 veteran warrant officer was walking along silently

01:02:59.180 at a near distance on the other side of the road.

01:03:02.140 He'd been very demanding, intimidating, impossible to impress.

01:03:07.560 nothing was ever good enough

01:03:09.040 and he always made us feel like

01:03:10.080 we had an impossible task

01:03:11.640 of trying to live up

01:03:12.440 to his standard

01:03:13.360 he was the old guard

01:03:16.060 and several of us noticed

01:03:19.200 as he was watching

01:03:21.400 from the side of the road

01:03:22.260 carrying his own rucksack

01:03:24.180 without any expression

01:03:25.720 just the half worn off

01:03:29.840 green and brown cam paint

01:03:31.560 dirt on his face

01:03:32.440 and his black mustache

01:03:33.760 was all you could see

01:03:34.580 under his helmet

01:03:35.280 But he just slowly nodded his head a couple of times.

01:03:43.520 It was approval.

01:03:47.200 And earning that nod from that man was the hardest thing that I had done in my life up to then.

01:03:56.640 And just a few minutes later, we rounded a corner and a familiar road.

01:04:03.020 We had been on the road all morning, out for weeks, exhausted, right around that corner.

01:04:08.020 Just a couple minutes later, there was the road back to camp.

01:04:16.060 Later in the week before our graduation ceremony, I was cleaning my boots next to the CFL player in the cleaning bay when someone asked him point blank,

01:04:24.400 but why? Why not just leave the guy? He wouldn't have been able to do that for you.

01:04:28.620 stop for a second he didn't look up from his boots and he just said

01:04:35.820 because it could

01:04:39.760 i learned two very important things that morning that stuck with me for the rest of my life

01:04:47.080 and stuck with me not just because i had to earn it but because it was the truest thing that i'd

01:04:52.460 experienced i didn't read about it i experienced it it happened to me and it was as real and as

01:04:58.220 compromising as the sun. First, when we are in those moments of darkness, suffering, and fear,

01:05:05.600 always remember the only thing that you ever truly have control of is you. If you keep going,

01:05:12.200 if you keep pushing, if you keep fighting, no matter how far behind or how close to defeat

01:05:17.720 that you think you are, the only thing that matters is that you keep fighting because

01:05:24.240 victory and salvation

01:05:26.580 could always just be

01:05:28.820 one lucky punch away

01:05:30.120 right around the very next

01:05:32.820 bend in the road. But you'll never get to find

01:05:34.920 out if you give up.

01:05:37.660 Second,

01:05:39.720 strength is not

01:05:40.940 a gift or a curse.

01:05:43.060 Strength is a choice.

01:05:45.340 It is not a pleasure.

01:05:47.020 It's a responsibility.

01:05:48.840 To become strong, you have to choose

01:05:50.720 to do the difficult things.

01:05:52.180 to build up your mind, your body, your spirit.

01:05:54.700 You must walk the hard road.

01:05:56.640 Just as the steel sword is scorched and beaten

01:05:59.100 on the blacksmith's anvil, there are no shortcuts.

01:06:03.440 The things you'd rather not do, but must be done.

01:06:08.820 The uncomfortable things, the scary things.

01:06:13.260 And who are these, the strong?

01:06:15.260 They are those who choose to do these things.

01:06:18.860 And through these things, those acts and their consequences

01:06:21.940 they emerge on the other side sharper

01:06:24.640 because it must it must be done someone has to do it

01:06:31.640 where would we be without our heroes we wouldn't exist

01:06:35.860 those who would just be a little bit further ahead or stand a little bit taller than the rest

01:06:44.660 of us can see a little bit more a little bit stronger just a little bit more gas in the tank

01:06:49.080 or be willing to throw someone else's misery on their back,

01:06:54.700 increasing their own suffering so that that person,

01:06:57.660 their brother beside them, would survive

01:07:00.860 and then maybe someday they'd be able to do it for someone else.

01:07:05.820 These examples empower us all.

01:07:08.620 They live in our dreams and our imaginations.

01:07:10.840 They are the stories that become our myths and legends

01:07:13.760 that drive our collective will to exist and press on.

01:07:17.580 what an awesome responsibility it is to be strong

01:07:22.640 why stay why stay alberta because there are other kids in the house

01:07:32.220 your younger brothers and sisters are they to blame for all of this lunacy

01:07:38.840 how are they to defend themselves they're still trapped in there

01:07:43.760 with that pig-headed monster of a stepfather and what hope do they have to withstand his abuse if

01:07:50.280 you can't the same the very same moms and dads grandparents and families that stood with you in

01:07:58.520 that frozen nightmare are all over this country and they are no more capable of putting a stop

01:08:05.640 to any of this as you are voting you really believe in this why did the convoy happen at

01:08:13.360 all then because we have all so much faith in these electoral blood leeches. Canadians joined

01:08:19.480 us from all over the nation and waved farewell, wished us luck standing out there in the snow

01:08:24.380 on overpasses and fields holding their children, cheering us on as much as they were desperate

01:08:29.520 for someone to save them. I've been across this nation to the Pacific and the Atlantic more times

01:08:36.600 in the last five years than I can make sense of. And there are Canadians just like you

01:08:41.180 who have lost hope without a prayer,

01:08:44.740 barely keeping it together.

01:08:46.260 They're living in shanty tent cities,

01:08:48.000 RVs and storage units alone

01:08:50.780 as their neighborhoods and homes are overrun

01:08:53.500 with crime, filth and the profane.

01:08:59.240 You can stand there in the doorway

01:09:02.020 with your bags packed,

01:09:04.100 but still something compels you.

01:09:07.500 this doesn't feel right

01:09:11.720 does it

01:09:13.780 it isn't right

01:09:16.680 is this really how the story of Canada goes

01:09:22.580 I have to be honest

01:09:25.860 it doesn't feel very Albertan

01:09:29.420 it doesn't feel very Canadian to me

01:09:33.120 the rest of us

01:09:38.000 will be right here.

01:09:42.540 We'll keep marching on.

01:09:45.720 We'll keep supporting each other

01:09:47.100 and we'll keep finding a way forward.

01:09:50.120 No matter what tomorrow brings,

01:09:52.820 we'll fight until the end

01:09:54.180 just like Hong Kong in 1941.

01:09:57.160 Even though

01:09:58.000 you and I both know

01:10:01.420 we probably can't win

01:10:07.360 without you

01:10:08.360 but

01:10:12.140 what if there's another way

01:10:18.400 the story goes

01:10:19.160 would you imagine it

01:10:21.440 for some old friends

01:10:23.600 for old times sake

01:10:25.840 what if you turned around

01:10:30.460 what if you turned around and

01:10:33.400 walked back into that house

01:10:35.660 you unpack your bags

01:10:37.660 but you don't put them away

01:10:38.620 because it's not you

01:10:41.840 who's going to be leaving after all

01:10:43.100 you gather the rest of your brothers and sisters

01:10:47.880 you take off your hat

01:10:50.160 you kneel down and you tell them

01:10:51.740 that you're a family

01:10:54.300 and then you're going to stick together

01:11:01.000 against this maniac named Ottawa

01:11:03.240 and this shit ends now

01:11:05.460 in a dark

01:11:08.460 confusing and desperate time

01:11:11.320 in this family story

01:11:12.900 our story

01:11:13.640 it's not too late still

01:11:15.580 for it to one day read that

01:11:17.480 they say

01:11:20.060 when the heartbeat of the Canadians

01:11:22.660 sprung back to life

01:11:23.760 when the miracle happened

01:11:25.700 it was in Alberta

01:11:28.800 where first

01:11:30.760 his right hand

01:11:33.040 started to twitch and move

01:11:35.000 made a fist

01:11:36.860 and then his eyes shot open

01:11:39.580 Canada didn't go sour

01:11:44.080 it didn't turn into someone or something else

01:11:47.260 it's being attacked

01:11:48.580 it's being stolen

01:11:50.020 and we have never run from a fight

01:11:52.360 and neither of you

01:11:53.400 every last inch of this country from one ocean to the next belongs to you and to our people still

01:11:59.660 inside its borders don't let foreigners and traitors chase you out of your heritage your

01:12:06.340 history your birthright your home you have friends and allies family all over this country who want

01:12:14.260 what you want to end this era of unaccountability lies and indignity find the others

01:12:22.460 don't believe their propaganda.

01:12:24.880 Stand proudly and be the strength

01:12:26.720 everyone needs to see.

01:12:28.380 Maybe Alberta needs to see most of all.

01:12:31.220 A coalition, an alliance,

01:12:32.720 a movement of Canadians who have had enough

01:12:34.400 of facing hopelessness and despair,

01:12:37.200 enough of compromise and excuses,

01:12:38.920 and lead them!

01:12:40.660 Lead them from the front with an unusual,

01:12:43.280 uncommon act of self-sacrifice

01:12:45.260 and belief!

01:12:48.740 And you could choose

01:12:49.680 the road of heroes

01:12:51.800 but you have to make that decision

01:12:55.960 Alberta has to write the ending to that story

01:13:00.540 as for the Conservative Party

01:13:05.740 versus Canada

01:13:06.880 there is still one more move left

01:13:09.540 to save the ship

01:13:10.620 I will tell you that unfortunately

01:13:13.080 it's not as simple as

01:13:14.080 get the libs out

01:13:15.360 I often take criticism for my attacks

01:13:17.820 on the Conservatives

01:13:18.880 and skeptics believe I must support them

01:13:20.720 or have some vested interest in the liberals.

01:13:23.380 I don't.

01:13:24.280 I despise that godless mob of killers.

01:13:28.120 I'm not trying to stop you from supporting political opposition.

01:13:31.280 I'm trying to stop you from fighting with a broken sword.

01:13:36.300 Imagine we live on a frontier,

01:13:38.400 small town, before electricity.

01:13:41.520 We have to pay a small number of men to protect the town.

01:13:46.220 They do general security, law enforcement,

01:13:48.940 but there's a problem.

01:13:50.720 First, they cost way too much.

01:13:54.400 And second, they don't show up for work.

01:13:58.560 Canada is huge and there are tens of millions of us, but our resources are not infinite.

01:14:03.680 Our manpower, our money, our time, our energy are not infinite.

01:14:09.340 Like a giant pumpkin that has been cinched off from the rest of the other pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

01:14:15.860 The Conservative Party enjoys the unchallenged injection of nearly all of our available resources to fight Ottawa.

01:14:23.880 It's the only game in town, so everyone goes there.

01:14:28.200 But as has been made painfully clear, they're not up for the job.

01:14:34.360 Faith Goldie once said the Conservative Party exists so that no real right-wing Canadian party can exist.

01:14:40.660 And she's right.

01:14:41.180 their sponge has soaked up all of the juice and they use it to do photo ops and Indian Diwali

01:14:49.540 celebrations ignore everyone dying to argue about who isn't doing enough to worship Jewish people

01:14:55.880 and how wonderful it is that no one speaks English in Surrey anymore

01:14:59.580 they have no motivation to change course why would they their campaign manager Jenny Byrne

01:15:07.860 recently celebrated that their loss was the best technical loss that they've had in years.

01:15:13.280 They are paid handsomely and suffer no consequences for their failure.

01:15:18.800 And our families and our loved ones pay the price.

01:15:23.460 The Hartman family paid a price.

01:15:27.460 Leaders take action.

01:15:29.520 They do not wait around all day for someone else to tell them what to do.

01:15:33.400 They don't wait for permission.

01:15:35.300 They act when action is needed.

01:15:37.060 They just do it.

01:15:40.920 The CPC will not change on principle.

01:15:44.100 They do not respect you enough to even listen to you.

01:15:47.500 They are shameless weasels that only respond to the same stimuli and motivators that any scavenger or parasite creature does.

01:15:53.900 Fear and gratification.

01:15:56.520 They are very fat and happy in their castle with their $600 a plate conventions.

01:16:00.460 People have tried the whole infiltrate and change from the inside in an attempt to slow motion, steer, and shape the mindset back towards the right direction.

01:16:11.620 But anything pointing in the right direction is forbidden.

01:16:15.400 Like the liberals, diversity of thought and belief is not permitted.

01:16:20.700 So, it's simple.

01:16:24.520 If we can't breach the castle, and they won't come out and face us like men,

01:16:29.120 siege we starve them out we starve them out we see how long they can go without eating

01:16:41.720 every political party relies on its base of diehard supporters to exist they are the financial and

01:16:48.700 energetic backbone of the party donations from canadians and memberships fees made up 97 percent

01:16:56.000 of their income in 2024 for just over 48 million dollars. They need this money to operate and their

01:17:02.020 next deposits are currently sitting in your pockets. If they don't want to do their jobs then

01:17:10.400 they don't get paid. Their existence is entirely in the hands of the Canadian people.

01:17:16.420 We can turn their oxygen off today and see how long they like gasping for air

01:17:20.860 until the color in their face matches their lawn signs.

01:17:25.700 Then we'll consider plugging it back in

01:17:27.940 and see if they've decided to become a little bit more agreeable.

01:17:31.980 I'm willing to bet that you'll find suddenly

01:17:34.420 they'll be much more interested and respectful

01:17:36.600 about what it is you have to say.

01:17:40.160 Or they refuse to change and they die on their ego.

01:17:44.680 Hoisted on their own petard,

01:17:46.580 they slowly, then more quickly,

01:17:48.640 evaporate and disintegrate into an irrelevant nothing to match the impressive record of

01:17:54.000 victories they've produced for us with all the money and time they've helped themselves to.

01:18:00.500 Arguably, the disintegration is already taking place, which would clear the way and open the

01:18:07.080 field for free market competition. The juice, the nutrients, the energy would flow freely again

01:18:12.840 and set the conditions for something else.

01:18:16.080 Something new.

01:18:18.160 Something that works.

01:18:20.840 Something Canadian.

01:18:25.140 Conservative Party.

01:18:27.820 Canada has waited too long

01:18:29.100 for you to fix yourselves and produce results worthy of our name.

01:18:34.400 You'll continue to try and disguise your failure as evolution or progress,

01:18:39.020 but our patience must come to an end.

01:18:42.840 Or this country will not survive your blundering.

01:18:47.020 Canada, they need you.

01:18:51.600 You do not need them.

01:18:55.180 We stick together.

01:18:57.840 No one goes home until we can all go home.

01:19:05.300 Our future depends on us.

01:19:09.960 And there is no more time to wait.

01:19:12.840 Thank you.

Raging Dissident Podcast - August 12, 2026

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