Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Conservative filmmaker says Trudeau 'broke' Canada's military

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Wow. Is there ever a great new movie out there? It's about Canada's military

00:00:06.300 and the filmmaker is Aaron Gunn. You have got to see that this trailer is the most exciting and

00:00:11.720 powerful and heartbreaking thing I think I've seen all year. I don't know. I'd have to think

00:00:17.640 about what I've seen that rises to this level. This is great stuff. I'm going to show you the

00:00:22.900 trailer of the movie and then Aaron and I will talk about it for about 20 minutes. I want you

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00:01:03.380 Tonight things have never been worse but let me tell you why I'm optimistic.

00:01:23.820 It's September 20th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:26.300 All right I just said that things have never been worse and obviously that's not true.

00:01:46.500 There was a disaster of the 20th century. World War I, World War II, the Cold War, nuclear war.

00:01:53.800 There were terrible things that happened. So when I say things have never been worse

00:01:56.920 that's not literally true but many things about our society have decayed over the last 10 years

00:02:02.640 in Justin Trudeau. Some accidentally, some absolutely on purpose. We had a setback yesterday.

00:02:09.640 The federal court of Canada ruled against us when we applied to get the QCJO news license.

00:02:16.500 It's absurd that a court would even have jurisdiction over that. It's absurd that a government would even

00:02:22.440 try to regulate that. What do either of those institutions have to do with our freedom of the

00:02:27.440 press? The fact that we have to convince a judge that we had more than two percent of our journalism

00:02:33.100 be original. What an absurd statement to begin with. But I don't want to get demoralized. First of all I

00:02:38.900 do think we have a real chance on appeal. But here's why I feel optimistic despite that disaster.

00:02:44.720 Despite the disaster of two million immigrants to Canada a year and all that portends. Despite the 1.00

00:02:52.420 fever pitch of wokeness. Despite the bad news overseas and foreign affairs. Despite the news that I see

00:02:59.560 Justin Trudeau will resume pushing Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, through Parliament on Monday.

00:03:07.220 Why do I feel optimistic about it? Well I just recorded a feature interview with our friend Aaron

00:03:13.100 Gunn. That's after the break. So I filmed today's show out of order. And he's talking about the state

00:03:20.040 of the Canadian military. And it's a disaster. It truly hasn't been this week relatively I think since

00:03:28.800 Canada was born. And one should be desperate. One should be disconsolate over what's going on.

00:03:37.680 And yet I feel hope because I think that in about a year from now a very hard rain is going to fall.

00:03:47.060 And so many of the people who have had free reign in this country to try out their disastrous

00:03:53.580 experiments are going to be washed away. Now there's the problem of the Senate which we will have to deal

00:03:58.480 with all those partisan time bombs being planted by Justin Trudeau to foil what Pierre Polyev does.

00:04:07.440 That will be a constitutional crisis that's looming. But put aside that important asterisk,

00:04:14.280 I really do feel some hope. I mean let me give you the example of the censorship. The QCJO

00:04:18.700 journalism license or the Bill C-63, Online Harms Act, both of which are a civil liberties disaster.

00:04:25.220 It's true. But let's say Trudeau rams through C-63 in a few months. All right. And it is proclaimed

00:04:33.620 into law perhaps in the new year. And it takes a few months for these new censorship machineries

00:04:39.380 to staff up, to hire up, to hire the new prosecutors and the new judges. By the time that's ready to go,

00:04:47.880 I would think we're going to have the next election. And like I say, there's no sure thing. Something

00:04:53.220 could come up to intervene. But I'm hopeful that even if we're not able to slap down these censorship

00:04:59.540 laws in court or in parliament, that the new government will simply throw them out. That there

00:05:06.280 will be a reset and a repeal of the worst things. I see a little bit of that when it comes to

00:05:12.560 immigration, a boldness led by the provincial premiers, including Alberta's premier Daniel

00:05:17.820 Smith. I see even Pierre Paulyas starting to take baby steps at saying, no, we've got to bring those

00:05:23.300 numbers down. Well, let me put it this way. Even the liberals are admitting they have to bring the

00:05:27.040 numbers down. Wokeness is off the charts. Well, it's starting to go and retreat in other countries.

00:05:34.300 In the United Kingdom, they have backed away from gender reassignment surgeries on young people,

00:05:40.660 at least. I see even a twinkle of hope in foreign affairs. I mean, you have to marvel at the high-tech

00:05:49.500 spycraft that Israel apparently used against Hezbollah terrorists this week, where new low-tech

00:05:56.400 pagers that Hezbollah ordered, because they didn't want Israel to be able to hack their smartphones. So 0.84

00:06:01.580 they went back to an older beeper technology. Well, those beepers had explosive charges put in there.

00:06:07.620 And these were handed out to all the Hezbollah terrorists, thousands of them. And then all at

00:06:13.800 once, Israel managed to send a text message, a pager message to all of them. And when they pushed the

00:06:19.940 button, it blew it up, killing many terrorists and injuring thousands. I understand there may have been

00:06:27.860 two civilians that were killed. And that's a shame, of course. That's a collateral damage that is sad when

00:06:34.300 civilians die in war. But frankly, eliminating what I heard, 2,800 terrorists with just two

00:06:41.360 collateral damage human casualties is a miraculous ratio that perhaps has never been done in the course

00:06:47.900 of war before. And it's a tribute to Israel's security services for doing that. I think that

00:06:53.980 in a significant manner degrades the possibility for Hezbollah to commit war. Imagine if we could have done

00:06:59.820 that to Al Qaeda or ISIS in the past, push a button, have thousands of terrorists pick up their secret

00:07:07.180 phone and have a blow up on them. I mean, if you did a James Bond movie, that might be implausible.

00:07:13.340 It's too outrageous. I tell you, you have to hang on to these things. I tell you all this because

00:07:19.660 although things have never been worse, I think things will get better. I don't know what's going to

00:07:24.300 happen in the United States. Polls suggest that Donald Trump is still in the fight, something you

00:07:29.740 wouldn't have thought, let's say, a year ago when they were trying their lawfare on him. They were

00:07:34.260 trying to jail the guy. I'm a little bit hopeful. Look, you've got to be hopeful. If you're a reformer,

00:07:39.320 if you're a dissident, you must be hopeful. If you were a pessimist, you wouldn't even bother trying

00:07:44.560 to change things. I'm an optimist because I try to change things. And with your help, we'll keep fighting

00:07:49.620 fighting to do so, fighting to tell you the other side of the story and fighting for our rights and

00:07:54.440 yours when they're infringed. All right, next up, our friend, Aaron Gunn.

00:08:11.040 You know, it's interesting to look at the talent that Pierre Polyev has cobbled together in his

00:08:16.220 caucus and in the candidates that are going to be running in the upcoming election. It's very

00:08:21.980 interesting. It's a new generation of conservatives and they're from different backgrounds, different

00:08:26.560 skills. One of the candidates I'm going to keep my eyes on, I mean, I think a lot of them are going

00:08:30.860 to win. You look at the polls, it's going to be a wipeout, almost Kim Campbell style for Justin

00:08:35.320 Trudeau. But I'm thinking, well, who might make cabinet and who might have this role or that role?

00:08:40.500 It's interesting to see the backgrounds. And I'm an old timer now. I can't believe it. I'm older,

00:08:44.640 I think, than a vast chunk of the crop of candidates who'll be deploying in the next election.

00:08:50.480 But one of my favorite guys, and this won't surprise you to hear it because he's such a

00:08:54.840 frequent guest on our show, is our friend Aaron Gunn, the filmmaker, the independent documentary

00:09:01.540 maker who is so articulate and not just articulate with words, but he marshals the power of visuals,

00:09:09.020 which is something that I have to tell you a generation ago conservatives did not do.

00:09:12.480 We didn't have people with that kind of creative, artistic imagination. The left always had sort

00:09:19.360 of a monopoly on the cultural tools like movies and TV shows. And I think part of it is a democratization

00:09:25.920 of the arts through YouTube and social media, where basically anybody with a cell phone can become a

00:09:32.260 filmmaker. And so you're unlocking talent because you removed the gatekeepers in Hollywood or whatever

00:09:37.460 the Toronto version of Hollywood is. And Aaron Gunn is a formidable storyteller in his own right.

00:09:43.540 And you strap that on the back of a member of parliament. Now you're cooking with gas. What a

00:09:49.340 pleasure to be joined again, this time in his capacity as a candidate for the Conservative Party

00:09:54.340 of Canada in the Rodney of North Island, Powell River. I'm talking about Aaron Gunn. Aaron, great to see you

00:10:00.420 again. Thank you so much for having me, Ezra. It's great to be here and chatting with you today.

00:10:05.140 Right on. Well, I know you're in Campbell River. What a wonderful little town. I'd call it the

00:10:10.900 fishing capital of BC. And folks, if you ever have a chance, if you want to do some salmon fishing and

00:10:15.500 you're basically guaranteed to get fish out there, it's a great Canadian vacation. I've taken my family

00:10:21.180 and myself. Anyways, the reason we're having you, Aaron, besides talking about the Riv, Campbell River,

00:10:26.820 is you've got a new, I'm going to call it a feature film. It's probably has a different

00:10:30.800 characterization of that, but it's a powerful film. It's about our military. It's called

00:10:36.860 Forsaken Warriors, How Trudeau Broke Canada's Military. Why don't you give us a bit of a

00:10:43.060 minute intro and then we'll play the trailer for people.

00:10:47.100 Yeah, well, thanks for that, Ezra. So the film, this is one that I've been wanting to make for a

00:10:51.100 while. I used to, I served a couple of years, three years in the Canadian Army Reserves,

00:10:55.400 always had a lot of fondness and passion for Canada's military. It's really shameful how we've

00:11:02.280 treated both the current crop of men and women in uniform, but also our veterans. So the film starts

00:11:07.100 out first looking back in time at just how great this military was. World War I, population of 7

00:11:14.320 million. We put about 700,000 into uniform. World War II, we put over a million men and women into

00:11:21.320 uniform. And starting in about the 60s, Pearson and then Trudeau Sr. began the long and gradual

00:11:29.160 decline that has been exponentially increased under this current government. The state of the military,

00:11:35.900 we look at the state of its equipment, more than half of the Army's vehicles, unusable.

00:11:40.760 Country of 40 million, we maybe have 12 fighter jets that we can call off at any given time.

00:11:45.660 Our Arctic is completely unguarded. And then we take a deep dive both into the treatment of our

00:11:50.820 veterans and also this new almost attempt to replace the warrior culture within the CAF,

00:11:57.240 within the Canadian Armed Forces, with all these bizarre new woke policies, including changes to

00:12:03.780 the force's dress codes that were now partially repealed and all sorts of accusations leveled

00:12:11.040 throughout the ranks. So that's, we cover everything from the state of the equipment to recruitment to

00:12:15.360 retention, ability to project power abroad, to protect our own sovereignty here at home,

00:12:20.920 and also some of the cultural changes that have led to many people to leave, quite frankly.

00:12:25.840 Wow, you've covered so many amazing issues there. I didn't know that you had served for three years

00:12:30.620 in the Reserve, so that's great. I mean, obviously, that gives you a deep understanding here, but I

00:12:34.700 think it also speaks to your character and your service to the country. I was just reading a story the

00:12:39.680 day. I think it may have been by Cosman Georgia at True North about how the military is now

00:12:44.580 investigating anyone who was against this bizarre decision by the Canadian Armed Forces to put

00:12:49.100 tampon dispensers in men's bathrooms, that those objectors are being investigated for hate and

00:12:54.940 extremism. It's just out of the corner of my eye, I think I saw a story about that. So you're so right.

00:13:00.100 I mean, you want, I hate to say it, you want guys, guys. You want men who are fit and have a sober-minded

00:13:09.680 warrior mentality. It is not the place for woke experimenting, and I think that you can, it started

00:13:16.500 with Pierre Trudeau, the disrespect. It's a moral disrespect for the Armed Forces, and Trudeau had that

00:13:23.620 for many of our institutions, and I'm so glad you remind us of the history, because that is part of our

00:13:28.880 identity. They're trying to raise to zero. That, when you topple statues, when you topple, and you

00:13:35.100 rewrite history, it's because you're trying to make people forget who they are. Enough intro. Let's watch

00:13:42.120 the trailer together. We're watching a trailer to Aaron Gunn's new film, Forsaken Warriors. Let's take a

00:13:50.400 look. Current and former defense officials are raising alarms about the state of the Canadian military.

00:13:55.900 Almost half of this country's military equipment is unavailable. What is the state of Canada's forces

00:14:01.000 today, in your view? It's pitiful. Current security threats going. We are woefully unprepared. The

00:14:07.880 institution has lost its way.

00:14:10.780 The Canadian Armed Forces are in a state of disrepair, of crisis. Half of the Army's vehicles and

00:14:25.420 trailers are parked against a fence, because they don't have the spare parts to keep them going. We

00:14:29.880 have an Army that has no anti-aircraft capability. The Navy is struggling to have three elderly frigates

00:14:36.960 at sea at once. And it goes on and on and on. It seems like every time the... No, it doesn't seem

00:14:44.960 like it. It's absolute fact that every time the Liberals are in power, they strip away more and

00:14:50.260 more of our military culture. DEI gets people killed. It is literally the plague of the service

00:14:56.360 right now. There are certain occupations where if you don't go with meritocracy, it's dangerous.

00:15:00.880 It's blatant partisan politics. We're degrading operational capability because we're doing all

00:15:07.520 this other stuff. When I walk through bases, sometimes I shake my head and I got to bite my

00:15:11.760 tongue. This government is not serious about defense, which means our allies aren't happy.

00:15:16.480 We had been important. It was inconceivable that they would come together and form NATO without us being

00:15:22.320 a part of it. Today, I don't think we'd ever get an invitation to the table. That reputation is going up

00:15:28.320 and smoke unless we do something to turn it around. Their treatment of the armed forces right now is

00:15:34.240 appalling. When people sacrifice and spill their blood and watch their friends blow up in front of

00:15:39.680 them and the government just kind of goes, thanks for coming out, we're nothing more than a dollar,

00:15:45.280 something to spend money on. If we weren't there, they'd be able to save, right? You could come back

00:15:50.240 bound to a wheelchair with no help and services for the rest of your life.

00:16:06.160 Holy smokes. Well, that looks amazing. The first thing that stands out to me

00:16:12.080 is you are talking to serious people there. I think I recognized Vice Admiral Mark Norman

00:16:18.320 amongst the senior brass. I didn't quite remember the name of the fellow with the white hair who's

00:16:24.960 a very senior military man. Who are some of those? I recognize Peter McKay. I recognize David Berkerson.

00:16:32.640 Tell me some of those. You, Peter McKay, of course, former defense minister. This was not you just

00:16:40.800 working on this in your home. You went out there and met with some of the most senior military people.

00:16:47.920 Very, very senior, in fact. Tell me some of the folks you talked to.

00:16:52.400 Yeah, well, it's not, as I try to do with these documentaries, it's not, you know, Aaron Gunn's

00:16:57.920 view of the world. It's going out to try to talk to the experts, the people that are living this,

00:17:02.480 that are closest to the issues, and then bring the truth of what they know to as many Canadians

00:17:08.240 as possible. So in that trailer, you would have seen, in addition to Mr. McKay there,

00:17:14.720 the former Minister of Defense, also the former military heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

00:17:20.880 So that's, as well as Lieutenant General Maisonneuve, who I think you're referencing.

00:17:26.880 You mentioned Vice Admiral Norman, who was obviously prosecuted and failed,

00:17:31.040 failed prosecution by the government. Lieutenant General Hood, former head of the Royal

00:17:37.040 Canadian Air Force, and also Lieutenant General Andrew Leslie, who was the head of the team.

00:17:42.160 That's who it was, yeah. I recognized him. And he used to be a liberal MP.

00:17:46.480 A liberal MP, the whip, actually, of the caucus. And he had probably the most stinging criticism for this

00:17:52.880 current prime minister and their cabinet making the decisions right now around national defense.

00:17:58.080 We also went down to Washington DC, talked to the assistant deputy of defense, former very senior

00:18:06.880 Pentagon official, Elbridge Colby, as well as, I think, a deputy ambassador to Canada, formerly,

00:18:15.200 who's now retired, to talk about just how much our international reputation has taken a hit and

00:18:20.800 how we're kind of viewed, you know, completely unseriously around the major capitals of the world.

00:18:27.760 You know, that is the heartbreaking part. There was a time when we were, like,

00:18:32.400 I think after World War II, I think we had the third or fourth largest navy in the world.

00:18:35.360 Ken actually once had an aircraft carrier. It's hard to believe. We had our own beach on D-Day,

00:18:40.400 just like the Brits and the Yanks. We had Juneau Beach. We were even there in Korea. And for a while

00:18:46.640 there, while we were in decline, we still boasted. The liberals used to boast about how we were big

00:18:52.160 into peacekeeping. And you can have your opinions about peacekeeping. I sure do. But at least it was

00:18:56.560 a commitment and it was a symbol. I don't even think there's any Canadian peacekeepers. I mean,

00:19:01.200 there's some forces, I think, in the Baltics right now. But I don't think, and Trudeau put some folks,

00:19:06.160 I think, in Mali for a year. But I actually don't think we have any peacekeepers deployed

00:19:10.320 anywhere in the world right now. And that picture, there was that one image of the grown-ups,

00:19:18.560 I think that was in the G7 or NATO, huddled together talking. And there was Trudeau off to the side,

00:19:24.640 because I guess he had already told his cool joke about his socks. And he had already done all the

00:19:30.160 party tricks and they'd already all seen them. So the grown-ups were talking. You sit at the kids'

00:19:34.320 table. But I'm using metaphors here, but it's a fact. There's this new group called

00:19:39.920 AUKUS, Australia, UK, US. We're not in it. We used to be part of the Five Eyes. It was like

00:19:49.760 the super friends. It was like the inner circle of good guys. We're not really included in things

00:19:55.680 anymore because everyone knows Justin Trudeau has allowed the Chinese government to infiltrate

00:20:00.800 the highest offices of the land. That trailer alone reminds of about 10 different crises

00:20:09.920 altogether. That's, wow. How long is the movie?

00:20:14.480 The movie, it's the longest film I've put together yet, but there was just so much,

00:20:17.520 unfortunately, so much disaster to reveal. So I think it's just over an hour and a half.

00:20:21.920 I mean, you touched on some really important points there. When it comes to AUKUS, this alliance,

00:20:29.600 this both military alliance and technology sharing partnership with significant economic benefits

00:20:34.080 signed between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, not only were we not in it, we weren't

00:20:40.000 even invited. I remember growing up in social studies class, Ezra, there was a lot of talk about

00:20:46.880 Canada always punching above its weight in world history and on the international stage.

00:20:52.320 And as Vice Admiral Mark Norman put it, in order to measure the weight or the power of the punch,

00:20:58.640 you have to be in the ring. And we're not even in the ring right now. We're not even sitting at the

00:21:02.320 table where these decisions are being made. And we're not a small country. I mean, we're a country,

00:21:07.040 we're a G7 country. Another thing that came up quite prominently when I was down in Washington,

00:21:13.200 interviewing senior American international officials is growing talk about maybe Canada

00:21:18.000 should be kicked out of the G7. We can't pull our weight around the world. If we can't pull our

00:21:22.000 weight in defense, why shouldn't another country, as Elbridge Colby put it to me, why should another

00:21:26.960 country like South Korea be in the G7 instead? So these are conversations that are happening.

00:21:32.000 Allies are frustrated. And again, even international scene aside, we can't even protect our own borders

00:21:38.480 right now. You know, we had Chinese weather or weather spy balloon, wherever you think.

00:21:42.400 Uh, the Americans had to shoot it down, um, for us over our own sovereign territories. That's the,

00:21:48.400 that's how bad things have gone. Yeah. You know, the other day I saw Bill

00:21:51.680 Bear make an announcement that we're training, uh, F-16, Ukrainians on F-16, uh, jets. And I thought,

00:21:59.440 I know that's not true because we don't have F-16 jets. We've got

00:22:03.520 F-18s that are, what, almost 50 years old now. I learned from your trailer, we, we have trouble

00:22:11.360 putting three boats at sea, three ships at sea. I think China's got, what, a 600 ship navy? Um,

00:22:18.160 that, that image there, about half of our vehicles parked in some parking lot. I remember when,

00:22:24.080 I think it was Anita Anand announced that we're sending tanks to Ukraine. And I thought,

00:22:28.720 we're sending tank to Ukraine because we have, I think we have a few dozen, but most of them are

00:22:35.440 not ready to rock. And they're not operationally at the same level as the other tanks that the

00:22:41.440 Ukrainians are getting from America or the UK or, or, or others. Like, I don't, it, it really is 0.99

00:22:49.280 shocking when you look at it that way. That, that's decades of neglect, but there's a, there's a

00:22:56.560 viciousness to it. Um, I don't know, it, it, seeing it all put together in that trailer,

00:23:03.200 the trailer alone packs a punch. Yeah. And just to go back to your earlier point, um,

00:23:09.280 and one of the, two of the individuals interviewed for this documentary are also former, uh, members

00:23:14.240 of JTF-2 or Canada's special forces. And, um, you know, with regards to this, these, these tampon

00:23:21.120 dispensers, they put in mail washrooms at every mail washroom at every, uh, military base across

00:23:27.520 the country, um, put aside to, for a second, what you might think about that from a, from a policy

00:23:33.600 perspective. But that's one thing where they seem to do it, uh, rapidly. They got the order that,

00:23:38.480 you know, the, the government spent the money, they got it done, they made the procurement, they

00:23:42.000 delivered. Um, and, but they've done all of that, all of these woke changes in record time.

00:23:47.360 But when it comes to actual combat capability, when it comes to military readiness, um, all of

00:23:52.720 that is being left further and further behind. And it comes back to a, I think it comes back to

00:23:57.520 what the government is choosing to prioritize. And, um, I don't think they're serious about

00:24:02.560 national defense. I don't think they're serious about national security. You, you mentioned

00:24:05.600 earlier some of the concerning revelations, um, surrounding, uh, this government's relationship

00:24:10.320 with China. And what's really frustrating is when it comes, in my opinion, when it comes down

00:24:15.600 to the, for the federal government, there should be no higher priority than national security and

00:24:20.240 national defense. I mean, that is what the federal government was originally put there to, to do,

00:24:24.960 to facilitate. And, um, it seems to be really, uh, uh, an afterthought at best, um, for the current

00:24:32.480 administration. You know, one more thing I was thinking of that statement by Bill Blair about

00:24:37.440 training. We used to have an annual sort of NATO air training event in Cold Lake, Alberta. I think

00:24:45.680 it was called maple flag, if I'm going correctly. And it was an annual thing and all the NATO countries

00:24:50.800 came and we practice flying together. And it was sort of like a top gun, uh, in Canada. I think they

00:24:57.840 canceled that about six years ago and said, we're, we're improving our systems. We'll be back even

00:25:04.560 better. I don't think it's ever come back. So that's, that was a chance for all the NATO pilots

00:25:11.920 to come to Canada, to, to be on our turf, to meet us, to be friends, to go out for beers afterwards,

00:25:19.040 to, and for us to learn from the best of the best. That's just part of history. And without any fanfare,

00:25:25.840 without it, they just, they can't do it. We don't have the equipment. We don't have the budget.

00:25:31.520 And why, if you're NATO, if you're, why would you go to Cold Lake, Alberta, instead of to Poland

00:25:38.960 or to some place where they think about the military, to the UK? I mean, whatever you think

00:25:44.320 about the Russia-Ukraine war, that's the hotspot. We are, we, we, we're not even serious. We're a

00:25:50.640 million miles away from Syria. I don't think we do that maple flag thing anymore, do we?

00:25:55.360 Well, it's actually worse than that, Ezra. Not only are we not holding these kinds of exercises,

00:25:59.760 for the first time ever, NATO held the Allied air exercise in Europe. And there were only two

00:26:05.680 NATO countries that weren't able to go. It was Canada, because we didn't have any planes that

00:26:11.440 we could send in Iceland, which doesn't have an Air Force. So that is kind of the state of affairs

00:26:17.120 right now. Again, a country of 40 million, second largest country in the world. And we have,

00:26:21.360 I've been told from sources within the Air Force, 12 jets that are ready to go. Again,

00:26:26.480 a country of 40, we have the second largest country in the world, a vast Arctic region that's,

00:26:30.960 by the way, full of some amazing people and tremendous economic opportunity. But when it comes

00:26:35.600 to sovereignty, you know, use it or lose it at a certain point. The Americans have over 20,000

00:26:40.880 combat troops in the, in the, in the Arctic. Obviously they just have Alaska up there. Russia's got more

00:26:45.440 than 30,000. We have less than 300 and they're all sitting in offices in Yellowknife. So it's a,

00:26:52.000 it's a sad state of affairs, unfortunately, but it's something that we need to turn around.

00:26:56.480 Well, I tell you, I'm so glad you made this movie. I would be glad that you made this movie if you

00:27:01.920 were just Aaron Gunn, good guy. But now you're Aaron Gunn, Conservative Party candidate in North

00:27:08.880 Island, Power River. And I gotta, I mean, listen, nothing's done until it's done. You gotta win the

00:27:15.200 election. The Conservative Party has to win the most votes and Pierre Palihev has to invite you

00:27:20.800 into cabinet, but you are an articulate and reasonable spokesman using your words. But you

00:27:27.920 also have that dark art of being able to marshal cinema, which is a rare thing for people on our

00:27:34.640 side of the aisle. I look forward to whatever your role will be. I mean, I, in your trailer,

00:27:40.560 it reminds me of the other work you've done such as, uh, Vancouver is failing. Is that what it's,

00:27:45.200 uh, dying, dying, dying, Vancouver, which was about the inner city and the drugs, which is just a mess.

00:27:51.840 So I feel like you've got a variety of areas of expertise. I didn't know you were former, um,

00:27:58.240 military man yourself. You served three years from the university. I didn't know that.

00:28:01.840 I'm excited to see where you are quote deployed in cabinet, because I think that you will be there.

00:28:08.800 And I think that that's a very good thing for Canada. You're a good storyteller, but there's

00:28:13.360 stories with a point, you know, you're, you're, you're waking us up and you're pointing out things

00:28:18.480 we need to improve. I'm really excited about this. And we haven't even talked about some of the things

00:28:23.280 that trailer shows like the maid, the medical assistance in dying, which goes to the morality

00:28:29.520 of this. I mean, just the cultural abuse, the, the Trudeau liberals, their answer to veterans is

00:28:36.560 euthanasia instead of actually helping them. Um, you know, that, let me just throw you one more

00:28:42.240 thing. I think the essential moment where Trudeau really showed who he is. And sometimes Trudeau will

00:28:48.960 speak the truth if he's sort of not prepared that, and, and he just answers honestly without

00:28:55.360 thinking of a briefing note. We saw that when he was asked what his favorite country was other than

00:28:59.200 Canada. That was actually a great question. And he said, China, I admire their basic dictatorship 0.68

00:29:07.280 that he was being bloody honest. And the other was when a Canadian veteran who was wounded

00:29:14.160 asked him about, why are you fighting us in court? And that's a, that's an iconic clip here. Take a look

00:29:22.240 at this. He showed us who he was, didn't he? Take a look. Mr. Minister, I was prepared to be injured

00:29:29.440 in the line of duty when I went to, when I joined the military. Nobody forced me to join the military.

00:29:34.640 I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister,

00:29:41.600 is Canada turning its back on me. So which veteran was it that you were talking about?

00:29:55.200 Thank you, sir. Thank you for your passion and your strength and being here today to share this

00:30:02.320 justifiable frustration and anger with me and with all of us here. Thank you for having

00:30:08.000 the courage to stand here and thank you for listening to my answer. On a couple of elements you brought

00:30:14.400 up. First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're

00:30:23.440 asking for more than we are able to give right now. They are asking for more than we, well, no,

00:30:30.400 hang on. You're asking, you're asking for honest answers. Now you met that guy. He's in your movie.

00:30:41.440 Tell me, give me one minute on that before we say goodbye. Yes, Brock Blaschuk. He's, um,

00:30:47.920 he's an incredible, he's the real deal. He's an incredible warfighter. He, he, he talked the talk

00:30:53.600 and he walked the walk. He went, he signed up to serve his country when the country was at war. He got

00:30:57.920 deployed to Afghanistan. And near the end of the tour, he, uh, stepped on a Taliban IED. Um,

00:31:04.880 that severely, uh, he lost his leg and severely flatlined multiple times on his way back to Canada.

00:31:11.040 Um, uh, and he's a warrior, but you know, what's so sad and so frustrating to me is,

00:31:17.120 you know, it's one thing when you sign up in the country, you know, uh, that you're going to fight

00:31:21.200 the enemies of Canada. In this case, the Taliban, but what you don't sign up for is having to fight your 0.83

00:31:26.560 own government once you get home. I mean, he's had to fight for recognition from Veterans Affairs

00:31:31.600 that his disability is permanent. Oh my God. He lost his leg. Oh my God. You know,

00:31:37.760 Trudeau's got money for every bloody thing. There's nothing he won't throw money at, whether it's a,

00:31:42.720 a foreign manufacturer of electric vehicles, billions, tens of billions, but a guy who gave

00:31:48.720 his limb for this country, well, they're asking for more than we can give. I tell you,

00:31:52.800 if you do form the government and if you do have a say in things, and if it happens to be in matters

00:31:58.960 military, I say, you take that guy, Brock, what's his last name again?

00:32:04.160 Blast check.

00:32:04.720 I, you take him and you make him the veterans ombudsman or you make him the, like you put that

00:32:12.080 guy in the deciding role, make him a decider, make, put him right in the heart of things to 0.93

00:32:18.560 wake up all those bloody bureaucrats. Don't you think that would be a poetic purpose for Brock?

00:32:25.440 That sounds like a great idea to me. I put him right in the middle. No one would understand veterans 1.00

00:32:30.000 more than him. And what a rebuke it would be to a decade of abuse from Justin Trudeau.

00:32:35.280 That's just my suggestion box item to you, Aaron.

00:32:39.920 Yeah, no, it's a, I agree. And I hope he's a true warfighter and Canadian hero. He deserves better

00:32:44.880 than this. All right. Well, I'm very excited about this movie. The best way to see it is on YouTube.

00:32:50.640 Again, it's called Forsaken Warriors, how Trudeau broke Canada's military,

00:32:58.000 military. But where there's life, there's hope. And I do hope that the government that I believe

00:33:03.360 will come into office next year will stop the decay, stop the abuse, take those tampon dispensers out

00:33:09.280 and maybe refill our military with respect, a sense of purpose and the resources they need.

00:33:16.160 Aaron Gunn, good luck to you. I really hope you make your way into parliament. I think you'd be a

00:33:20.720 great addition and a great asset to this country. Thank you very much. And thank you very much for

00:33:25.520 having me, Ezra. It's our pleasure. There you have it, Aaron Gunn. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:33:42.560 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. The first one is on liberals spending $3 million

00:33:46.720 attending international film festivals. Must be nice. Trevor Malek says, remember when they

00:33:53.680 shamed a conservative over a glass of orange juice? You're talking about Bev Oda. And she ordered an 0.99

00:33:59.280 orange juice from the hotel minibar. And you know, the hotel minibars are probably the most expensive

00:34:04.240 square foot in the world. To charge 16 bucks for an orange juice is insane. But she did that and she 1.00

00:34:12.080 billed that to taxpayers and she was sacked over it. Well, I mean, we're reading about corruption in

00:34:17.760 $16 million, in $16 billion terms now. Bring back Bev Oda, I have to say.

00:34:24.880 Tom Cotter says, the federal firearm buyback program has cost taxpayers nearly $67.2 million

00:34:31.760 since it was announced in 2020, but it still hasn't collected a single gun. I saw that statistic and I

00:34:40.160 thought, you know what, that's almost the identical amount of money that the liberals spent on the 0.97

00:34:45.600 Arrive Can app. And I don't know if you remember, but there was sort of a team of amateur hackers

00:34:51.040 who recreated, like they built from scratch, an Arrive Can app replica in like a weekend's work.

00:34:58.560 Like the kind of thing that a consulting firm would charge tens of thousands of dollars for,

00:35:03.040 not 60 plus million dollars. Now we have since learned the whole thing was a fraud,

00:35:07.840 a corrupt scam to wring out money from taxpayers. And I got to say,

00:35:12.240 $60 million for the Arrive scam, you know, corruption scheme, $60 million for a buyback

00:35:19.600 program that hasn't bought anything back. I want to know who's the liberal spouse who's getting all

00:35:24.480 the money, who's the liberal lobbyist. One thing I hope Pierre Polyev does if he becomes prime minister,

00:35:29.840 and I think he will. What I hope he does is have a retroactive, deep forensic audit, not out of

00:35:38.560 vengeance, but we have to reset the moral center of this country. Under Justin Trudeau, it was clear,

00:35:46.240 take what you can, get away with what you can. And we have to change the morality back to Stephen

00:35:51.760 Harper. I mean, I don't know if Babota should have been sacked over a $16 orange juice, but I'd much

00:35:57.280 rather have a government that was that paranoid about overspending or waste than Trudeau's government

00:36:02.400 where he firehoses money and it always seems to wind up in his friends' pockets. That's our show

00:36:07.760 for today. Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:36:12.560 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - September 21, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Conservative filmmaker says Trudeau 'broke' Canada's military

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