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00:00:35.900Okay, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, depending on which part of this beautiful country that you're in.
00:00:56.340I'm your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed. I am back. You're watching Rebel Roundup, and my co-pilot is here with me today from Regina, Saskatchewan, Lise Murrell. Lise, how's it going?
00:01:08.700Well, I couldn't be better, Sheila Gunn-Reed, because in only four sleeps, in only four sleeps, we will be seeing each other again.
00:01:15.040We will be reunited. Our little team, a partner, our partner in crime team is going to be reunited in beautiful Red Deer, Alberta, for the, this is going to be the fourth?
00:01:29.300Rebel Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Separation happening in Red Deer on Saturday, June 14th.
00:01:35.780If you are in, okay, anywhere near the Red Deer area, or even further out, okay, we don't care.
00:01:41.400If you can get to Red Deer, you're going to want to attend this event, because nothing makes me feel more normal than hanging out with all of my Rebel friends.
00:01:50.360Like, these are rooms and circles that, where your opinions aren't going to be frowned upon, where everybody is going to know the same topics that you like to talk about, where everybody is on the same page.
00:02:00.300And that is so refreshing in this wild world, where it sort of sometimes feels like your opinions may be out of step with the asleep, woke lunacy that has taken over all of our public institutions and our world.
00:02:17.420So, yes, everybody, this Saturday, June 14th, do join us in Red Deer, Alberta.
00:09:28.900And the CBC didn't tell us about its own involvement in any of this in its own reportage.
00:09:39.080Because Sheila read the whole report and wonders why the rest of the media missed this little nugget buried in it.
00:09:48.700So, between 2015 and 2024, GC Strategies, a two-man company run by Christian Firth and Darren Anthony, secured 106 federal contracts across 31 departments.
00:10:00.480The value, $93 million, most rewarded as sole-sourced.
00:10:06.220GC Strategies didn't build a single thing.
00:10:09.080They outsourced the work, mark up the invoices, then send the bill to you.
00:10:13.140They're middlemen in a procurement racket that Ottawa let flourish.
00:10:16.840And I regret writing Ottawa there because it was the Liberals.
00:10:20.820Ottawa, a bad city in its own right, but it was the Liberals.
00:10:25.220Now, the Auditor General findings here.
00:10:31.70082% of sole-sourced contracts had no price validation, meaning they didn't check to see if this was a comparable market price for what was being charged.
00:10:56.720They were split into smaller amounts to avoid oversight rules, meaning if they split them into smaller amounts, they wouldn't have to go to obligatory mandatory tender or obligatory tender, open tender.
00:11:11.660They could sole-source them all, so they were just chopping them all up, even though they were largely for the same project.
00:11:18.180The biggest score, of course, was ArriveCant.
00:11:22.180The app that was supposed to cost $250,000, which was still five times inflated, which turned into a $60 million scandal.
00:11:32.420The department's dishing out the cash, not just the CBSA, although the CBSA, $50 million would have been $60 if they paid the full amount of the ArriveCant.
00:12:16.600Did any time in the last two-plus years that they were reporting on GC Strategies, did they ever divulge to the viewer that they were doing business with these guys?
00:13:49.460That is a staggering amount of corruption that just slipped right through the fingers of the federal government, who, P.S., reminds us at their every opportunity that they are the absolute best people to manage our money.
00:14:04.340That they are the absolute, you know, the absolute crux of what it means to be accountable to the Canadian taxpayer.
00:14:12.200$93 million flew out the door without anybody looking.
00:15:35.520But like we see in Canada all the time, especially as it pertains to the federal government, they play this game of accountability hot potato.
00:15:43.440Oh, well, I couldn't take care of this because this system wasn't in place.
00:15:46.800Well, I couldn't take care of this because this system isn't in place.
00:15:49.300And they just throw around the hot potato and the accountability never, ever, ever lands in any one person's hand.
00:15:55.100The people that were managing this on the ministerial level, on the ministerial level, should be fired.
00:16:03.460They should be fired and then prosecuted for gross negligence of taxpayer funds in Canada.
00:16:08.920And yet, and yet, the most severe punishment that could be meted out was a seven-year ban on doing business with the federal government.
00:17:35.580Poliev reacting to the Carney liberals stealing yet another good idea from the conservatives and then expecting us to ignore where we heard this idea first.
00:17:49.140So Carney announced that he's going to increase defense spending to meet the 2% of GDP target for NATO and he says he's going to do it ahead of schedule, which as I explained yesterday to David Menzies, is like not paying your credit card for years and then paying the minimum balance the day after it's due.
00:18:29.560And so anyways, here's Poliev reacting to it.
00:18:32.460Rebuilding our military after another lost decade of liberal cuts, mismanagement and back office bureaucracy of boondoggles and wasted money on bungled projects.
00:18:54.960Now more than ever, we need a strong military that will reassert our sovereignty in the north, take back control of our Arctic waters.
00:19:01.460We need at least one, but probably two Arctic bases.
00:19:05.420We need fighter jets, Poseidon aircraft.
00:19:08.400We need four and not two icebreakers to bust up the ice and reassert that we are properly the ones that lay claim over our Arctic waters.
00:19:19.660We also need to fill the massive number of vacancies that have built up in our military after the last decade by increasing the dollars available to recruit and focusing the military on a warrior culture that actually inspires people to want to join again.
00:19:36.740All of this is going to take money, and that's why we support getting back to the 2% target as soon as possible.
00:19:43.960And we will support additional money for our military.
00:19:48.460That's why we're calling on the government to bring in a budget, because all of this will require a budget.
00:19:52.800A budget that not only puts this money forward, clearly identifies where it comes from, but cuts waste in bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid, corporate welfare, and other areas so that the necessary increase in the military does not come as an inflationary burden on the backs of our Canadian taxpayers who have been suffering for far too long.
00:20:16.200Okay, I think that the Conservatives need to stop giving all of their best ideas to the Liberals and talking points like that.
00:20:27.140Like, to be completely honest, we do not need the Liberals to pick up that laundry list of needs that the military requires, and truly, they might.
00:20:37.240What the Conservatives should be doing in this moment is pointing out the deficiencies and the ways that the Liberals have crapped the bed on military spending.
00:20:45.320Tell us how deficient we've been in our NATO spending over the last 10 years.
00:20:50.800Tell us the limitations of our current military equipment and procurement process.
00:20:59.100Don't tell the Liberals that we need four icebreakers instead of two.
00:21:05.720Like, we're not campaigning anymore, and I think that this is a misstep, because what the Liberals are going to do, and we've seen them do it over and over and over again,
00:21:12.700is take those Conservative talking points and going, right, we have decided that we need to, like, to me, this is just all, this is a big misstep.
00:21:48.920I never, quite literally, ever, ever, ever want the Conservative Party of Canada to say, yes, we support what Mark Carney is doing right now.
00:21:57.740We support what the Liberals are doing, and that's what I heard just now.
00:22:05.740It's your job to oppose what the government is doing, and so there are better ways to do that, and that whole thing I'm not delighted with.
00:22:11.740So, well, you could, yes, you could honestly, as you said, just tell them how bad they are all the time.
00:22:25.360And ask them why they didn't do it any sooner.
00:22:28.460And this was a huge complaint of President Trump from the United States saying Canada is not pulling its weight as it pertains to its NATO spending.
00:24:17.160At the end of the day, if you wait until everybody agrees on everything, nothing will happen.
00:24:21.940You're never going to get everybody to agree on every single project.
00:24:26.600And bottom line is we're giving 90% of our oil and 100% of our gas to the Americans at enormous price discounts.
00:24:34.540This is costing us tens of billions of dollars every single year to the exclusive benefit of American refineries and commodity traders who are able to take our product, bid up the price by $15, and sell it on the world stage and do that literally about a billion times a year.
00:25:18.300And if the Prime Minister says he's going to wait until everyone agrees, then nothing will get done, which is what has been happening for the last decade.
00:25:32.320But at the same time, at the same time, the federal government has emboldened provincial governments with consultation with all of the many, many, many layers of stakeholders.
00:27:13.780Nobody has turned to me more against parks than Stephen Giebel.
00:27:17.240And I am fundamentally kind of opposed to parks anyway, because I don't think I need the government's permission to be a conservationist on public land.
00:27:26.840I don't think I should seek the permission of the people who oversaw the burning down of a UNESCO World Heritage Site called Jasper.
00:27:34.860And they've decided to put themselves in charge of another one.
00:27:38.140And I see Daniel Smith is like, we would not consent to another national park.
00:27:44.360If we want a provincial park, that's our business.
00:27:46.280But we definitely don't need the federal government snatching more public lands from the hands of Albertans, which is what that would amount to be.
00:28:46.900I said it was away unless the president or Carney decided to bring it up.
00:28:52.020And coincidentally, I think you could argue, you could make a credible case that as the president brought it up, maybe the Canadians were bringing it up and maybe the media was bringing it up at the same time.
00:29:05.940It wasn't just the president of the president of the United States with his tweet, it was 36 hours of nonstop media coverage and Canadians talking about, this is proving our sovereignty.
00:29:18.080And it's kind of like, you're thumping the president in the chest for 36 hours and you shouldn't be, yeah.
00:29:23.920I would argue that it was a hell of a lot more than 36 hours, that the liberals created their entire fear.
00:29:43.840Like, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.
00:29:46.840Anti-U.S. sentiment, anti-51st state sentiment.
00:29:51.260It wasn't, I mean, Donald Trump mentioned it, yeah, but it was the Canadian media that ran with it, that picked it up, ran with it, and set it on fire.
00:29:59.220And got everybody who was even slightly left-leaning all worked into a tizzy.
00:30:07.060But I'm so happy that the Americans are calling them out on this because that's exactly what happened in Canada.
00:30:12.660That's exactly what happened in Canada.
00:30:20.540They were running around calling Danielle Smith a traitor because she was deciding to take her diplomacy directly to the Americans instead of having to run it through the failures and flunkies in Ottawa.
00:30:38.220But anybody who wasn't viciously, mouth-frothingly anti-American was traded as some sort of traitor, like some sort of seditionist in this really jingoistic new Canadian patriotism.
00:30:58.860When I'm old enough to remember, like six months ago, when the liberals thought we were a genocidal state and we shouldn't have Canada Day and we should be so embarrassed of our own history.
00:31:11.100And then all of a sudden it's like, look, see if you can find oranges grown in Canada and buy those at the grocery store as if that were a thing.
00:31:21.120But, you know, it kicked off such a wild media frenzy that absolutely impacted the outcome of the election in Canada.
00:31:31.600Had we not had the media jumping on board, doing exactly what they knew it would do, it's almost like the media was doing the Liberal Party of Canada's bidding, almost like that.
00:31:43.140Speaking of which, as I said, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has a good relationship with Danielle Smith and she's been doing her own thing, talking to the Americans.
00:31:56.960And Pete Hoekstra says, very glad to see that Albertans can once again enjoy a cold U.S. beer or a glass of wine.
00:32:05.280Thanks to Premier Danielle Smith for your leadership in removing this barrier to fair and reciprocal trade.
00:32:12.960And then the first person underneath that says, careful, you'll trigger the elbows up crowd.
00:32:19.700Well, we're going to do that this weekend in Red Deer, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:33:25.400The flame continues to burn over his plans for Canada's national parks.
00:33:30.480Smith said she wouldn't consent to the creation of any new federal parks in Alberta.
00:33:38.860Now, something I didn't realize, because I was like, why is he talking about federal parks?
00:33:45.940He remains, though he is not the environment minister, the parks minister.
00:33:50.580He's still in charge of parks, even though he's over at Heritage.
00:33:54.000So what the Liberals did is they took parks, which has been traditionally under the purview of the environment minister, and Gilbo took it with him over to Heritage.
00:34:05.200Little shell game, shuffling Gilbo over to a new portfolio, but then allowing him to keep the one thing that would disallow human development in Canada.
00:38:39.240There is nothing I love more in this world than a Sheila Gunn-Reed tell-off.
00:38:44.220She can tell a guy off, okay, in such a spectacular fashion that that guy is just wondering how he's going to survive the onslaught of attention that Sheila Gunn-Reed puts on him.
00:39:03.820Yeah, I didn't mean to spider monkey him so bad, but he absolutely had it coming because he continues to, as was his downfall, underestimate the anger of Albertans.
00:40:23.840Like, like, the naked contempt that Jason Kenney is showing for the people of Alberta is absolutely staggering.
00:40:33.720All he ever did for us was send strongly worded letters to someone who only looked at picture books.
00:40:41.860You know, that's all he ever did for Albertans is send strongly worded letters to Justin Trudeau, who testified during the Foreign Interference Commission that he actually doesn't even read anything.
00:40:54.640Well, that sounds a lot like some Saskatchewan politicians, too, with strongly worded letters.
00:41:07.200I said the Venn diagram of politicians who sipped whiskey at Sky Palace, arrested pastors, locked churches, closed businesses, imposed vaccine passports, limited funerals no matter the size of the church, created a biomedical underclass, limited oil production OPEC style to artificially inflate the price, which cost Alberta jobs, by the way, and ridiculously claimed to be pro-freedom, pro-free enterprise conservatives would be the shape of the silhouette of your face.
00:42:27.180And then I was like, you know what this reminds me of?
00:42:30.740That Justin Trudeau, and I tweeted him the video because it's the exact same talking points.
00:42:38.080Should we tolerate these people from Justin Trudeau?
00:42:41.640Like, same playbook, just talking poorly about people with real grievances that politicians, including Jason Kenney, never actually did anything about.
00:42:53.200So I sent him this video when Justin Trudeau was talking about unvaccinated Canadians or even just vaccine skeptics or people who just thought maybe it's not the bartender's business if I got a jab or not.
00:43:09.660And I thought, you know, is what he's saying tangibly different than this?