EZRA LEVANT ｜ Conservative filmmaker says Trudeau 'broke' Canada's military
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Things have never been worse, but let me tell you why I feel optimistic about it. Despite the disaster of two million immigrants to Canada a year, and all that portends, despite the fever pitch of wokeness, and the bad news overseas and foreign affairs, and despite the news that I see Justin Trudeau will resume pushing Bill C-63, the Online Harmings Act, through Parliament on Monday, I don t want to get demoralized.
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Hello, my friends. Wow. Is there ever a great new movie out there? It's about Canada's military
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and the filmmaker is Aaron Gunn. You have got to see that this trailer is the most exciting and
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powerful and heartbreaking thing I think I've seen all year. I don't know. I'd have to think
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about what I've seen that rises to this level. This is great stuff. I'm going to show you the
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trailer of the movie and then Aaron and I will talk about it for about 20 minutes. I want you
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Tonight things have never been worse but let me tell you why I'm optimistic.
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It's September 20th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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All right I just said that things have never been worse and obviously that's not true.
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There was a disaster of the 20th century. World War I, World War II, the Cold War, nuclear war.
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There were terrible things that happened. So when I say things have never been worse
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that's not literally true but many things about our society have decayed over the last 10 years
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in Justin Trudeau. Some accidentally, some absolutely on purpose. We had a setback yesterday.
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The federal court of Canada ruled against us when we applied to get the QCJO news license.
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It's absurd that a court would even have jurisdiction over that. It's absurd that a government would even
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try to regulate that. What do either of those institutions have to do with our freedom of the
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press? The fact that we have to convince a judge that we had more than two percent of our journalism
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be original. What an absurd statement to begin with. But I don't want to get demoralized. First of all I
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do think we have a real chance on appeal. But here's why I feel optimistic despite that disaster.
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Despite the disaster of two million immigrants to Canada a year and all that portends. Despite the
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fever pitch of wokeness. Despite the bad news overseas and foreign affairs. Despite the news that I see
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Justin Trudeau will resume pushing Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, through Parliament on Monday.
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Why do I feel optimistic about it? Well I just recorded a feature interview with our friend Aaron
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Gunn. That's after the break. So I filmed today's show out of order. And he's talking about the state
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of the Canadian military. And it's a disaster. It truly hasn't been this week relatively I think since
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Canada was born. And one should be desperate. One should be disconsolate over what's going on.
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And yet I feel hope because I think that in about a year from now a very hard rain is going to fall.
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And so many of the people who have had free reign in this country to try out their disastrous
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experiments are going to be washed away. Now there's the problem of the Senate which we will have to deal
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with all those partisan time bombs being planted by Justin Trudeau to foil what Pierre Polyev does.
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That will be a constitutional crisis that's looming. But put aside that important asterisk,
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I really do feel some hope. I mean let me give you the example of the censorship. The QCJO
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journalism license or the Bill C-63, Online Harms Act, both of which are a civil liberties disaster.
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It's true. But let's say Trudeau rams through C-63 in a few months. All right. And it is proclaimed
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into law perhaps in the new year. And it takes a few months for these new censorship machineries
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to staff up, to hire up, to hire the new prosecutors and the new judges. By the time that's ready to go,
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I would think we're going to have the next election. And like I say, there's no sure thing. Something
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could come up to intervene. But I'm hopeful that even if we're not able to slap down these censorship
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laws in court or in parliament, that the new government will simply throw them out. That there
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will be a reset and a repeal of the worst things. I see a little bit of that when it comes to
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immigration, a boldness led by the provincial premiers, including Alberta's premier Daniel
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Smith. I see even Pierre Paulyas starting to take baby steps at saying, no, we've got to bring those
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numbers down. Well, let me put it this way. Even the liberals are admitting they have to bring the
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numbers down. Wokeness is off the charts. Well, it's starting to go and retreat in other countries.
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In the United Kingdom, they have backed away from gender reassignment surgeries on young people,
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at least. I see even a twinkle of hope in foreign affairs. I mean, you have to marvel at the high-tech
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spycraft that Israel apparently used against Hezbollah terrorists this week, where new low-tech
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pagers that Hezbollah ordered, because they didn't want Israel to be able to hack their smartphones. So
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they went back to an older beeper technology. Well, those beepers had explosive charges put in there.
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And these were handed out to all the Hezbollah terrorists, thousands of them. And then all at
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once, Israel managed to send a text message, a pager message to all of them. And when they pushed the
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button, it blew it up, killing many terrorists and injuring thousands. I understand there may have been
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two civilians that were killed. And that's a shame, of course. That's a collateral damage that is sad when
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civilians die in war. But frankly, eliminating what I heard, 2,800 terrorists with just two
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collateral damage human casualties is a miraculous ratio that perhaps has never been done in the course
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of war before. And it's a tribute to Israel's security services for doing that. I think that
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in a significant manner degrades the possibility for Hezbollah to commit war. Imagine if we could have done
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that to Al Qaeda or ISIS in the past, push a button, have thousands of terrorists pick up their secret
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phone and have a blow up on them. I mean, if you did a James Bond movie, that might be implausible.
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It's too outrageous. I tell you, you have to hang on to these things. I tell you all this because
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although things have never been worse, I think things will get better. I don't know what's going to
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happen in the United States. Polls suggest that Donald Trump is still in the fight, something you
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wouldn't have thought, let's say, a year ago when they were trying their lawfare on him. They were
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trying to jail the guy. I'm a little bit hopeful. Look, you've got to be hopeful. If you're a reformer,
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if you're a dissident, you must be hopeful. If you were a pessimist, you wouldn't even bother trying
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to change things. I'm an optimist because I try to change things. And with your help, we'll keep fighting
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fighting to do so, fighting to tell you the other side of the story and fighting for our rights and
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yours when they're infringed. All right, next up, our friend, Aaron Gunn.
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You know, it's interesting to look at the talent that Pierre Polyev has cobbled together in his
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caucus and in the candidates that are going to be running in the upcoming election. It's very
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interesting. It's a new generation of conservatives and they're from different backgrounds, different
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skills. One of the candidates I'm going to keep my eyes on, I mean, I think a lot of them are going
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to win. You look at the polls, it's going to be a wipeout, almost Kim Campbell style for Justin
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Trudeau. But I'm thinking, well, who might make cabinet and who might have this role or that role?
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It's interesting to see the backgrounds. And I'm an old timer now. I can't believe it. I'm older,
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I think, than a vast chunk of the crop of candidates who'll be deploying in the next election.
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But one of my favorite guys, and this won't surprise you to hear it because he's such a
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frequent guest on our show, is our friend Aaron Gunn, the filmmaker, the independent documentary
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maker who is so articulate and not just articulate with words, but he marshals the power of visuals,
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which is something that I have to tell you a generation ago conservatives did not do.
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We didn't have people with that kind of creative, artistic imagination. The left always had sort
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of a monopoly on the cultural tools like movies and TV shows. And I think part of it is a democratization
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of the arts through YouTube and social media, where basically anybody with a cell phone can become a
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filmmaker. And so you're unlocking talent because you removed the gatekeepers in Hollywood or whatever
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the Toronto version of Hollywood is. And Aaron Gunn is a formidable storyteller in his own right.
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And you strap that on the back of a member of parliament. Now you're cooking with gas. What a
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pleasure to be joined again, this time in his capacity as a candidate for the Conservative Party
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of Canada in the Rodney of North Island, Powell River. I'm talking about Aaron Gunn. Aaron, great to see you
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again. Thank you so much for having me, Ezra. It's great to be here and chatting with you today.
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Right on. Well, I know you're in Campbell River. What a wonderful little town. I'd call it the
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fishing capital of BC. And folks, if you ever have a chance, if you want to do some salmon fishing and
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you're basically guaranteed to get fish out there, it's a great Canadian vacation. I've taken my family
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and myself. Anyways, the reason we're having you, Aaron, besides talking about the Riv, Campbell River,
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is you've got a new, I'm going to call it a feature film. It's probably has a different
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characterization of that, but it's a powerful film. It's about our military. It's called
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Forsaken Warriors, How Trudeau Broke Canada's Military. Why don't you give us a bit of a
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minute intro and then we'll play the trailer for people.
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Yeah, well, thanks for that, Ezra. So the film, this is one that I've been wanting to make for a
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while. I used to, I served a couple of years, three years in the Canadian Army Reserves,
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always had a lot of fondness and passion for Canada's military. It's really shameful how we've
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treated both the current crop of men and women in uniform, but also our veterans. So the film starts
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out first looking back in time at just how great this military was. World War I, population of 7
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million. We put about 700,000 into uniform. World War II, we put over a million men and women into
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uniform. And starting in about the 60s, Pearson and then Trudeau Sr. began the long and gradual
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decline that has been exponentially increased under this current government. The state of the military,
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we look at the state of its equipment, more than half of the Army's vehicles, unusable.
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Country of 40 million, we maybe have 12 fighter jets that we can call off at any given time.
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Our Arctic is completely unguarded. And then we take a deep dive both into the treatment of our
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veterans and also this new almost attempt to replace the warrior culture within the CAF,
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within the Canadian Armed Forces, with all these bizarre new woke policies, including changes to
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the force's dress codes that were now partially repealed and all sorts of accusations leveled
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throughout the ranks. So that's, we cover everything from the state of the equipment to recruitment to
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retention, ability to project power abroad, to protect our own sovereignty here at home,
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and also some of the cultural changes that have led to many people to leave, quite frankly.
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Wow, you've covered so many amazing issues there. I didn't know that you had served for three years
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in the Reserve, so that's great. I mean, obviously, that gives you a deep understanding here, but I
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think it also speaks to your character and your service to the country. I was just reading a story the
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day. I think it may have been by Cosman Georgia at True North about how the military is now
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investigating anyone who was against this bizarre decision by the Canadian Armed Forces to put
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tampon dispensers in men's bathrooms, that those objectors are being investigated for hate and
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extremism. It's just out of the corner of my eye, I think I saw a story about that. So you're so right.
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I mean, you want, I hate to say it, you want guys, guys. You want men who are fit and have a sober-minded
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warrior mentality. It is not the place for woke experimenting, and I think that you can, it started
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with Pierre Trudeau, the disrespect. It's a moral disrespect for the Armed Forces, and Trudeau had that
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for many of our institutions, and I'm so glad you remind us of the history, because that is part of our
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identity. They're trying to raise to zero. That, when you topple statues, when you topple, and you
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rewrite history, it's because you're trying to make people forget who they are. Enough intro. Let's watch
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the trailer together. We're watching a trailer to Aaron Gunn's new film, Forsaken Warriors. Let's take a
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look. Current and former defense officials are raising alarms about the state of the Canadian military.
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Almost half of this country's military equipment is unavailable. What is the state of Canada's forces
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today, in your view? It's pitiful. Current security threats going. We are woefully unprepared. The
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The Canadian Armed Forces are in a state of disrepair, of crisis. Half of the Army's vehicles and
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trailers are parked against a fence, because they don't have the spare parts to keep them going. We
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have an Army that has no anti-aircraft capability. The Navy is struggling to have three elderly frigates
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at sea at once. And it goes on and on and on. It seems like every time the... No, it doesn't seem
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like it. It's absolute fact that every time the Liberals are in power, they strip away more and
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more of our military culture. DEI gets people killed. It is literally the plague of the service
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right now. There are certain occupations where if you don't go with meritocracy, it's dangerous.
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It's blatant partisan politics. We're degrading operational capability because we're doing all
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this other stuff. When I walk through bases, sometimes I shake my head and I got to bite my
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tongue. This government is not serious about defense, which means our allies aren't happy.
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We had been important. It was inconceivable that they would come together and form NATO without us being
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a part of it. Today, I don't think we'd ever get an invitation to the table. That reputation is going up
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and smoke unless we do something to turn it around. Their treatment of the armed forces right now is
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appalling. When people sacrifice and spill their blood and watch their friends blow up in front of
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them and the government just kind of goes, thanks for coming out, we're nothing more than a dollar,
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something to spend money on. If we weren't there, they'd be able to save, right? You could come back
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bound to a wheelchair with no help and services for the rest of your life.
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Holy smokes. Well, that looks amazing. The first thing that stands out to me
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is you are talking to serious people there. I think I recognized Vice Admiral Mark Norman
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amongst the senior brass. I didn't quite remember the name of the fellow with the white hair who's
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a very senior military man. Who are some of those? I recognize Peter McKay. I recognize David Berkerson.
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Tell me some of those. You, Peter McKay, of course, former defense minister. This was not you just
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working on this in your home. You went out there and met with some of the most senior military people.
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Very, very senior, in fact. Tell me some of the folks you talked to.
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Yeah, well, it's not, as I try to do with these documentaries, it's not, you know, Aaron Gunn's
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view of the world. It's going out to try to talk to the experts, the people that are living this,
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that are closest to the issues, and then bring the truth of what they know to as many Canadians
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as possible. So in that trailer, you would have seen, in addition to Mr. McKay there,
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the former Minister of Defense, also the former military heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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So that's, as well as Lieutenant General Maisonneuve, who I think you're referencing.
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You mentioned Vice Admiral Norman, who was obviously prosecuted and failed,
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failed prosecution by the government. Lieutenant General Hood, former head of the Royal
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Canadian Air Force, and also Lieutenant General Andrew Leslie, who was the head of the team.
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That's who it was, yeah. I recognized him. And he used to be a liberal MP.
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A liberal MP, the whip, actually, of the caucus. And he had probably the most stinging criticism for this
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current prime minister and their cabinet making the decisions right now around national defense.
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We also went down to Washington DC, talked to the assistant deputy of defense, former very senior
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Pentagon official, Elbridge Colby, as well as, I think, a deputy ambassador to Canada, formerly,
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who's now retired, to talk about just how much our international reputation has taken a hit and
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how we're kind of viewed, you know, completely unseriously around the major capitals of the world.
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You know, that is the heartbreaking part. There was a time when we were, like,
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I think after World War II, I think we had the third or fourth largest navy in the world.
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Ken actually once had an aircraft carrier. It's hard to believe. We had our own beach on D-Day,
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just like the Brits and the Yanks. We had Juneau Beach. We were even there in Korea. And for a while
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there, while we were in decline, we still boasted. The liberals used to boast about how we were big
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into peacekeeping. And you can have your opinions about peacekeeping. I sure do. But at least it was
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a commitment and it was a symbol. I don't even think there's any Canadian peacekeepers. I mean,
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there's some forces, I think, in the Baltics right now. But I don't think, and Trudeau put some folks,
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I think, in Mali for a year. But I actually don't think we have any peacekeepers deployed
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anywhere in the world right now. And that picture, there was that one image of the grown-ups,
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I think that was in the G7 or NATO, huddled together talking. And there was Trudeau off to the side,
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because I guess he had already told his cool joke about his socks. And he had already done all the
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party tricks and they'd already all seen them. So the grown-ups were talking. You sit at the kids'
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table. But I'm using metaphors here, but it's a fact. There's this new group called
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AUKUS, Australia, UK, US. We're not in it. We used to be part of the Five Eyes. It was like
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the super friends. It was like the inner circle of good guys. We're not really included in things
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anymore because everyone knows Justin Trudeau has allowed the Chinese government to infiltrate
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the highest offices of the land. That trailer alone reminds of about 10 different crises
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altogether. That's, wow. How long is the movie?
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The movie, it's the longest film I've put together yet, but there was just so much,
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unfortunately, so much disaster to reveal. So I think it's just over an hour and a half.
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I mean, you touched on some really important points there. When it comes to AUKUS, this alliance,
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this both military alliance and technology sharing partnership with significant economic benefits
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signed between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, not only were we not in it, we weren't
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even invited. I remember growing up in social studies class, Ezra, there was a lot of talk about
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Canada always punching above its weight in world history and on the international stage.
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And as Vice Admiral Mark Norman put it, in order to measure the weight or the power of the punch,
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you have to be in the ring. And we're not even in the ring right now. We're not even sitting at the
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table where these decisions are being made. And we're not a small country. I mean, we're a country,
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we're a G7 country. Another thing that came up quite prominently when I was down in Washington,
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interviewing senior American international officials is growing talk about maybe Canada
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should be kicked out of the G7. We can't pull our weight around the world. If we can't pull our
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weight in defense, why shouldn't another country, as Elbridge Colby put it to me, why should another
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country like South Korea be in the G7 instead? So these are conversations that are happening.
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Allies are frustrated. And again, even international scene aside, we can't even protect our own borders
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right now. You know, we had Chinese weather or weather spy balloon, wherever you think.
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Uh, the Americans had to shoot it down, um, for us over our own sovereign territories. That's the,
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that's how bad things have gone. Yeah. You know, the other day I saw Bill
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Bear make an announcement that we're training, uh, F-16, Ukrainians on F-16, uh, jets. And I thought,
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I know that's not true because we don't have F-16 jets. We've got
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F-18s that are, what, almost 50 years old now. I learned from your trailer, we, we have trouble
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putting three boats at sea, three ships at sea. I think China's got, what, a 600 ship navy? Um,
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that, that image there, about half of our vehicles parked in some parking lot. I remember when,
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I think it was Anita Anand announced that we're sending tanks to Ukraine. And I thought,
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we're sending tank to Ukraine because we have, I think we have a few dozen, but most of them are
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not ready to rock. And they're not operationally at the same level as the other tanks that the
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Ukrainians are getting from America or the UK or, or, or others. Like, I don't, it, it really is
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shocking when you look at it that way. That, that's decades of neglect, but there's a, there's a
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viciousness to it. Um, I don't know, it, it, seeing it all put together in that trailer,
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the trailer alone packs a punch. Yeah. And just to go back to your earlier point, um,
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and one of the, two of the individuals interviewed for this documentary are also former, uh, members
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of JTF-2 or Canada's special forces. And, um, you know, with regards to this, these, these tampon
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dispensers, they put in mail washrooms at every mail washroom at every, uh, military base across
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the country, um, put aside to, for a second, what you might think about that from a, from a policy
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perspective. But that's one thing where they seem to do it, uh, rapidly. They got the order that,
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you know, the, the government spent the money, they got it done, they made the procurement, they
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delivered. Um, and, but they've done all of that, all of these woke changes in record time.
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But when it comes to actual combat capability, when it comes to military readiness, um, all of
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that is being left further and further behind. And it comes back to a, I think it comes back to
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what the government is choosing to prioritize. And, um, I don't think they're serious about
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national defense. I don't think they're serious about national security. You, you mentioned
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earlier some of the concerning revelations, um, surrounding, uh, this government's relationship
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with China. And what's really frustrating is when it comes, in my opinion, when it comes down
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to the, for the federal government, there should be no higher priority than national security and
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national defense. I mean, that is what the federal government was originally put there to, to do,
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to facilitate. And, um, it seems to be really, uh, uh, an afterthought at best, um, for the current
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administration. You know, one more thing I was thinking of that statement by Bill Blair about
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training. We used to have an annual sort of NATO air training event in Cold Lake, Alberta. I think
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it was called maple flag, if I'm going correctly. And it was an annual thing and all the NATO countries
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came and we practice flying together. And it was sort of like a top gun, uh, in Canada. I think they
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canceled that about six years ago and said, we're, we're improving our systems. We'll be back even
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better. I don't think it's ever come back. So that's, that was a chance for all the NATO pilots
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to come to Canada, to, to be on our turf, to meet us, to be friends, to go out for beers afterwards,
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to, and for us to learn from the best of the best. That's just part of history. And without any fanfare,
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without it, they just, they can't do it. We don't have the equipment. We don't have the budget.
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And why, if you're NATO, if you're, why would you go to Cold Lake, Alberta, instead of to Poland
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or to some place where they think about the military, to the UK? I mean, whatever you think
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about the Russia-Ukraine war, that's the hotspot. We are, we, we, we're not even serious. We're a
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million miles away from Syria. I don't think we do that maple flag thing anymore, do we?
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Well, it's actually worse than that, Ezra. Not only are we not holding these kinds of exercises,
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for the first time ever, NATO held the Allied air exercise in Europe. And there were only two
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NATO countries that weren't able to go. It was Canada, because we didn't have any planes that
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we could send in Iceland, which doesn't have an Air Force. So that is kind of the state of affairs
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right now. Again, a country of 40 million, second largest country in the world. And we have,
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I've been told from sources within the Air Force, 12 jets that are ready to go. Again,
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a country of 40, we have the second largest country in the world, a vast Arctic region that's,
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by the way, full of some amazing people and tremendous economic opportunity. But when it comes
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to sovereignty, you know, use it or lose it at a certain point. The Americans have over 20,000
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combat troops in the, in the, in the Arctic. Obviously they just have Alaska up there. Russia's got more
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than 30,000. We have less than 300 and they're all sitting in offices in Yellowknife. So it's a,
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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
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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.
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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
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that trailer shows like the maid, the medical assistance in dying, which goes to the morality
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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
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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
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.
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I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister,
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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,
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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?
00:32:04.720
I, you take him and you make him the veterans ombudsman or you make him the, like you put that
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guy in the deciding role, make him a decider, make, put him right in the heart of things to
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
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. The first one is on liberals spending $3 million
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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
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
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
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
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for today. Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,