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00:01:14.860Well, hi, everybody. As you can see, I am out in the wilds of Ontario.
00:01:19.000I'm not very far away in Ireland or some faraway place like that.
00:01:23.100I'm in the heartland of Canada's biggest province because I am talking with the Amish.
00:01:27.860Again, the Amish, as you know, are an old-fashioned Christian community.
00:01:32.100They do not use electricity or electronics or even cars, and so that makes them vulnerable when the government comes to attack them, as they did during COVID.
00:01:41.120I'm on location filming an update on the Amish battle, which is why I'm not in the studio today.
00:01:46.720But yesterday, before I left town to come here to the Amish, I recorded an extended interview with someone I'd never met before.
00:01:54.860He's a former combat officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:01:58.780He's a lawyer, and I think he's a great commentator.
00:07:25.440I also did a video about going up to my old base in Petalala and seeing what used to be a hardcore base of trigger pullers look like something out of the Star Wars cantana.
00:07:35.700So I've kind of taken it quite personally that, you know, social policy is trumping lethality right now.
00:07:42.640The trigger Tuesdays, the misgender me Mondays, that's all me just doing a little license there.
00:07:48.120But I thought it's certainly caught with a bunch of people.
00:08:22.060You know, it's the cadre from the liberal government.
00:08:24.920And, you know, I've never been that political, but I've just seen what it's done to the military.
00:08:28.960There is a liberal government that came from Trudeau to push social policy onto the department they considered the most toxic masculine department.
00:08:39.880And so it's a beautiful target for them to show how powerful they are by essentially attacking toxic masculinity and all of the things that are, you know, characteristic of a fighting force that can get the job done.
00:08:54.680And it's not to say there's not room for diversity in the military, but I almost get the sense they're laughing at how ridiculous they're making the military in terms of just nonstop virtue signaling, rainbow flags, tampons everywhere, and nonsensical things that just make warfighters want to run away from this organization.
00:09:16.680And then they can't figure out why recruiting isn't up.
00:09:19.040It's because Starbucks baristas don't want to go live in a trench or go into a jungle or jump out of a plane.
00:09:24.840Like there's a cognitive dissonance that is affecting Canada to the detriment of our national security.
00:09:45.680Yeah, colonized and emasculated from within, which was very disoriented to guys who just like to watch some football or like to watch some hockey.
00:09:59.040And I mean, I don't know how those are working out commercially for those sports franchises.
00:10:12.180And those traits that are considered too masculine, that's precisely what we need in our military because the other guys' military are testosterone-driven.
00:10:23.560It's based on strength and strategy, not, you know, feelings and, you know, consensus building.
00:10:36.200Tell me about the new boss of the military.
00:10:45.140But the interesting thing is she ran a department, moved through the ranks very quickly, but ran a department called the Office of Protocol and Professional Standards, which seems somewhat Stalinistic.
00:10:57.400And it was created under Trudeau to kind of police, I think, thought and behavior in the military because they became very concerned with not wanting scandals.
00:11:07.680What's factually true is when they kind of destroyed the careers of four or five of our top generals based on allegations alone, she was well below them.
00:11:19.160But she was also in this department that was in charge of reporting on people, almost like a Politburo.
00:11:25.700And as each of them got canceled and moved away, she moved up the ranks and became the chief of defense staff.
00:11:33.680And, you know, interestingly enough, something that I'm sensitive to is it costs about 30 million bucks in three decades to make a general.
00:11:43.260And if you wanted to destabilize Canada and you were one of our adversaries, all you had to do was have somebody make an allegation against a general.
00:11:51.680And they were fired and removed from the Canadian Armed Forces structure permanently.
00:11:56.480And what we've seen is five generals, absolute careers destroyed.
00:12:00.640And I represented one of them on allegations alone.
00:12:03.460None of them actually turned out to be supportable in court.
00:12:07.780And we just saw a complete transformation of the leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:12:11.420And everybody who is in there now has gotten the message to play ball or your career is over.
00:12:17.080And they're literally, it's sad to say, a bunch of terrified senior officers there that privately lament for how bad the military is, but publicly can't say anything and have to look obedient.
00:12:30.080You know, one thing I used to look at was, I think it's called Operation Maple Flag, if I'm remembering.
00:12:35.960It was the sort of the top gun exercises in Cold Lake, Alberta, where Canada invited air forces from across NATO to compete.
00:12:45.800And then suddenly a few years ago, they said, oh, we're putting it on hold for, they came up with some weird word, like logistical reasons or something.
00:12:58.200And my theory was that we just simply didn't have the hardware, didn't have enough working planes that could go shoulder to shoulder with the F-22s and F-35s and whatever else our allies were flying.
00:13:15.520That it was a combination of lack of money, lack of equipment, and maybe even lack of people.
00:13:20.000But they certainly have time for these Me Too exercises or these diversity exercises.
00:13:27.500Do you know anything about Maple Flag and the cancellation of it?
00:13:34.040I don't know anything about Maple Flag being, you know, a grunt infantry airborne officer.
00:13:40.320But what I do know is that the military is the one place where merit means more than anything.
00:13:46.240And they've actually kind of gone on a campaign against meritocracy.
00:13:51.260And that's actually what's kind of, I think, characterizing our society right now, especially from the liberal government, is to attack merit-based selection so that we can promote, you know, communities that look the way they want them to look.
00:14:04.940But when it comes to going into battle, you know, what I always found about the military, even when I got out into law, is it had some issues.
00:14:11.660But generally it was fairly fair because what I cared about is could you cover my six, not who you were sleeping with, not where you were from.
00:14:20.480It's just we wanted to survive and we wanted to do the mission.
00:14:23.380And I thought it was a very positive place.
00:14:25.740It had room for improvement, but it has just been infected by that woke mind virus.
00:14:30.420And everybody will tell you that privately unless they're trying to get a promotion echoing what the government wants them to say.
00:14:37.420It is an organization that is in a spiral and cannot do anything.
00:14:42.680And it doesn't matter how many elbows up T-shirts you sell.
00:14:46.140I don't know if any blue-haired baristas are going to protect Canada when push comes to shove.
00:14:50.660Well, and that's the thing is when you reduce the standards of do you have, you know, how do you dress?
00:15:23.740I mean, maybe there are a lot of trans people who say, I want to drive a tank and I want to fly a jet.
00:15:29.020But I just don't see it as part of the same worldview.
00:15:32.880There's going to be some, and people should be welcomed in based on performance.
00:15:36.460But, you know, the problem is recruiting is at a critical low level.
00:15:43.880Nobody is talking about the actual numbers, you know, and nobody is allowed to say what's true.
00:15:48.620Like, we're in this alternate universe where people are pretending everything is okay, and nobody will tell the emperor they have no clothes because you just get fired.
00:15:57.620Let me ask you about the new announcement by Mark Carney of beefing up the armed forces.
00:16:04.620I mean, I've heard the Liberal Party say everything and anything on this, and historically they have been a laggard based on the amount of our GDP spent on the military.
00:16:18.940What do you make of Mark Carney's latest statement that he's actually going to fast forward the spending and catch up?
00:16:25.160I think I have an interesting angle here because I've taken some flack because I've suggested that Trump's a good negotiator and told some delicate flowers not to freak out at what he says.
00:16:36.900Carney has an internal audience in Canada and an external audience.
00:16:40.760Trump essentially said NATO has to spend 2% members or else you're going to have problems.
00:17:00.600He said I do it by 2030 and all of a sudden we're doing it now.
00:17:03.460But now he has to tell it to the Canadians by pretending that France is going to come and save us if we get into a sovereignty battle in our Arctic.
00:17:14.900I mean the U.S. military is so far ahead of all the others and I think even watching the Ukraine-Russia war, the success of Ukraine has had of being with American weapons.
00:17:26.120And the Russians, although I certainly don't want to shortchange their power just in terms of sheer mass and artillery and I think they may be – they certainly made advances in drone warfare.
00:17:39.460I think the U.S. military is so far ahead qualitatively, quantitatively training.
00:17:45.800Who else could be there in the Arctic?
00:17:48.380I thought it was sort of embarrassing that we couldn't shoot down that Chinese hot air balloon.
00:17:53.040It waited until it went over U.S. airspace.
00:17:59.040I don't know who spotted it first, a Canadian and an American, but it wasn't – it flew over Canada too.
00:18:06.220Didn't get shot down until it went over the States.
00:18:09.460Like I've been in training in a lot of NATO exercises and Canadian soldiers, sailors, and aviators are some of the best in the world when they're trained the way we know how to be trained.
00:18:20.580And during Afghanistan, universally respected and loved.
00:18:24.200But at present moment, when a military loses the ability to produce vigorous, dynamic, brave leaders, like you can't operate in a war zone.
00:18:36.220And right now our leaders are just terrified of doing anything that looks like it's aggression, which runs counter to everything about the military.
00:18:46.220We have to promote people who are ready to close with and destroy the enemy, take a bullet for their brothers and sisters, and get the job done.
00:18:54.140And what we have now is a completely dysfunctional force that's just – like people – in some of the lawsuits I've been doing,
00:19:00.960I've seen how close the liberal government is through the assistant deputy ministers in affecting the operational decisions of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:19:10.900People have no idea how much the political people are pulling the levers of power of the CAF.
00:19:18.040It's supposed to be separate, but when it comes to training and political agendas, they're absolutely hamstrung by the liberal government.
00:19:24.300And we need somebody to come in and reinvigorate the military, much like what is happening in the States, but they're not learning from that.
00:19:31.060Are there Canadians, young men in Canada, who are choosing to go to the States to join the American army, which I understand is you can do,
00:19:42.900because they're excited by the new focus in the U.S.
00:19:46.900They know they're going to get the best training, the best equipment, and possibly more dough.
00:22:44.940You go on an airplane, and they always recognize people serving.
00:22:49.200If you're in uniform, you get to line up first.
00:22:51.540Like, it's really trickled into all parts of society.
00:22:55.200There's a standard phrase, thank you for your service.
00:22:58.200It's sort of the whole set of manners and social encouragement for people who serve.
00:23:04.000It almost – it's like a secular – I'm not going to say religion, but it's a universal belief that if you've put on a uniform and served, you are a morally upstanding person that everyone else owes a debt to.
00:23:38.120We probably did coming out of the Second World War.
00:23:41.420What I loved about Canada in a way is the guys and girls who are like the real deal war fighters, they don't want to be recognized at hockey games.
00:23:50.500They don't want to be accoutrements for kind of people to casually recognize.
00:23:54.940They just want to serve their country with that kind of quiet professionalism Canada is known for.
00:23:59.220But they're not going to serve if they're going into an organization that's a corporate woke organization.
00:24:05.380Like they want to be put through challenge.
00:24:42.420And just for our viewers, we're catching you right after court because you are a practicing lawyer as well as a former combat officer.
00:24:51.220One thing I've heard, and we've followed this, is that Canadian veterans, some of whom have PTSD, especially those who served in Afghanistan, they have on multiple occasions been told by Veterans Affairs that they could have assisted suicide as their remedy.
00:25:08.040And I know this was disputed and denied, but it's just been reported so many times.
00:25:12.960And with proof of it, it's a very troubling trend.
00:25:17.440Now, I haven't seen reports of that lately.
00:25:19.480Do you know if that is still happening on the veteran side of things?
00:25:25.020I find that so, you know, shocking and demoralizing.
00:25:33.120And I can only imagine being a veteran who reaches out for help and being told to kill yourself.
00:25:44.980I've heard it being talked about, and I think it's out there.
00:25:47.360You know, the issue we deal with in society is that I've found Veterans Affairs to be generally good, but, you know, you can never say no to a veteran without being attacked on one level, right?
00:26:01.100And then there's levels of veterans, right?
00:26:02.760I mean, a lot of the people who were blown up or had done stuff, they don't want to complain.
00:26:07.700But then you can get a thousand veteran claims for running over a goat somewhere.
00:26:12.540Or the newest big drain is to say I was sexually assaulted 15 years ago when you get a six-figure check.
00:26:18.240So there's tons of people that are always be angry at it.
00:26:21.060I think case by case, you have to look at it.
00:26:22.980But I've definitely heard that that MAID program has been offered, but I don't know the context, and I've never been hired by somebody in that regard.
00:26:30.920It's disturbing at any level to encourage a vet to do that.
00:26:34.500But I know there are a lot of vets out there struggling just because what they went through was horrific.
00:26:40.100Well, I'm really grateful to you for jamming us in your schedule, especially in between court hearings.
00:26:44.940I really liked your TikTok channel, which I just stumbled across.
00:26:48.740I guess the algorithm sent you my way.
00:26:50.980I'd like to encourage my viewers to follow you.
00:26:53.920Not a lot of my folks are on TikTok, but if you are, follow Philip at Rogue Lawyer.
00:27:00.080That's also the name of his YouTube channel, The Rogue Lawyer.
00:27:04.240And on Twitter, or X as it's now called, Philip Miller, P-H-I-L-L-I-P-M-I-L-L-A-R.
00:27:13.140It's really nice to meet you, and I appreciated your sense of humor on that TikTok vid, but obviously you're a guy with a lot of serious thoughts, too.
00:27:20.380I hope we can keep in touch, and if there's any issues or court cases or battles that you see, don't be shy to bring them to our attention.
00:27:28.520I don't have as many military contacts as I'd like to, and if you represent grassroots guys trying to make the Army stronger, we're all ears for that.
00:29:00.960I cannot remember sending that text message.
00:29:02.800Let's talk about GC Strategies, owned by Christian Firth and Darren Anthony,
00:29:07.160a firm you've probably heard of if you've been following the Arrive Can fiasco.
00:29:12.100That's the infamous pandemic surveillance app that wrongfully sent 10,000 people to quarantine under threats of $5,000 in fines.
00:29:21.060The report identifies that there were 10,000 Canadians falsely, inappropriately sent into quarantine by one out of the 177 versions of the app.
00:29:30.380What is the total number of people who were sent into quarantine by this app who shouldn't have been?
00:29:35.060The one that cost taxpayers over $60 million for something that was replicated for a fraction of that over a weekend by tech bros to prove a point.
00:29:57.240Yeah, GC Strategies helped rake in that cash.
00:30:01.100But as it turns out, Arrive Can was just the beginning of the GC Strategies scandal.
00:30:06.720The procurement watchdog found numerous examples where GC Strategies, quote, had simply copied and pasted, end quote, information to prove the people GC Strategies found to do work on Arrive Can actually did it.
00:31:10.980The AG looked at 31 federal organizations and here's what she found.
00:31:16.220In 82% of sole-sourced or single-bid contracts, departments didn't even check to see if the prices were remotely fair.
00:31:25.880They just paid whatever GC Strategies was asking.
00:31:29.900In 21% of those contracts, there was no evidence that subcontractors had the required security clearances despite working on sensitive government systems.
00:31:40.560Remember this one when we get to the defense contracts.
00:31:43.600And the government pulled a classic bureaucratic trick.
00:31:48.780It split the contracts for the same project into low-value chunks under $25,000 to dodge procurement rules.
00:32:23.280The Treasury Board Secretariat paid them $10 million.
00:32:26.840Innovation, Science, and Economic Development also nearly $10 million.
00:32:31.520And here's the one I told you to remember.
00:32:34.820National Defense paid this two-man firm $3.6 million.
00:32:41.140And remember, their subcontractors frequently didn't have the proper security clearance to be working on the files that they were working on.
00:32:48.380And here's the one that I found most interesting when I looked at the coverage from the other news media on the AG's report.
00:32:58.060Even the CBC got in on it, cutting a check for $12,000 to GC Strategies.
00:33:06.240The CBC spent months reporting on the GC Strategies and ArriveCAN scandals.