The Liberals in their campaign efforts have said that Conservatives have failed the Canadian Armed Forces. Yet, of all the groups I thought the Liberals would know well enough to not campaign on the backs of, it would be the veterans of this country.
00:01:15.280area offices across Canada. Since then, Canada has doubled down on our national shipbuilding
00:01:24.760strategy, which right here in Halifax is creating good-paying union jobs for Canadian workers.
00:01:32.360You know, of all the groups I thought the Liberals would know well enough to not campaign on the
00:01:37.760backs of, it would be the veterans of this country. The veterans of this country have been told
00:01:44.160by the Liberals over the course of the last 10 years that they are inconvenient, that they're
00:01:48.540asking for more than the Liberals are willing to give them.
00:01:52.540You made the promise, and I'll quote it here, no veteran will be forced to fight their own government
00:01:58.440for the support and compensation they have earned. Yet you are still currently in a legal battle with veterans
00:02:04.540regarding equal support and compensation to their peers. You have ISIL or ISIS members coming into a reintegration program.
00:02:17.540You did a backdoor deal with Omar Qadar with not even stepping into the courtroom.
00:02:23.540So, again, my question is, what veterans were you talking about? Was it the ones that fought for the freedoms and values
00:02:32.540that you so proudly boast about, or was it the ones who fought against? Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister,
00:02:39.540I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military. Nobody forced me to join the military.
00:02:46.540I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister,
00:02:53.540is Canada turning its back on me. So which veteran was it that you were talking about?
00:03:07.540Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than one
00:03:15.540we are able to give right now. And they have been offered medical assistance in dying, told it's their civic
00:03:22.540and national duty to just drop dead instead of seeking care and help.
00:03:28.540With respect to MAID, I have a letter in my file because I had to face that as well.
00:03:36.540I have a letter saying that if you are so desperate, Madam, we can offer you MAID medical assistance in dying.
00:03:45.540This is Mark Meinke. I'm an Army veteran who served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
00:03:51.540In 1994, I served as a UN peacekeeper during the genocide in Croatia. And for the record, it was not ethnic cleansing. I hate that word. It was a genocide.
00:04:00.540Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism. I was in rotation for Operation Harmony. As a result of my service and numerous incidents that happened during my tour, I was injured with PTSD.
00:04:14.540A fellow veteran who runs peer support put his hand on my shoulder and said, let's talk. You should come off to peer support.
00:04:22.540I'm like, no, that's not for me, man. But he convinced me and I went and it grew. Then I became a peer support facilitator a year later.
00:04:29.540The veteran, as a result of that, that this is all about, came to me directly and gave me two recordings that were said on Wednesday to not exist.
00:04:37.540And they are in my possession and they're on my phone. That, that, that caseworker did not inform him of services.
00:04:47.540That caseworker not only offered MAID, it was unprompted and it was pushed after two no's. You'd think two no's would do it. It did not.
00:04:57.540I have here the transcript, which of course, I cannot get a hold of the veteran because he was so distraught he left the country.
00:05:05.540From the government agency, Veterans Affairs Canada, that exists to help them.
00:05:11.540And yet, Liberal leader Mark Carney making campaign statements that it is the Conservatives who have failed Canada's veterans.
00:05:21.540The Liberals had 10 years to fix the problems of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Veterans Administration.
00:05:29.540They have not. I think they've made it worse, but that's just my opinion on the outside looking in.
00:05:35.540I thought I would call a veterans advocate and a veteran himself, Mark Meinke.
00:05:41.540He's an Alberta-based, internationally renowned podcaster.
00:05:47.540He's suffered trauma and now he fights to help people get over it or recover from it as best they can.
00:05:55.540And he's got some things to say about how the Liberals are campaigning on the backs of the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:06:03.540So joining me now is my friend and star of one of our documentaries made the dark side of Canadian compassion podcaster, Mark Meinke.
00:06:21.540Mark, before I get into all the things I want to talk to you about, tell us a little bit about your podcast because you are the number one podcast in the world for trauma recovery.
00:06:39.540Well, thanks. And thanks again for having me on.
00:06:42.540Every time I get a little bit of extra exposure, there's a chance you might be saving a life because for a lot of people, my show is all they got and you got to meet people where they're at.
00:06:51.540And if where they're at is is my show and perfect.
00:06:56.540So the show basically started as an augmented peer support, because when I started my healing journey in 2017, after going 23 years without being diagnosed after a war that I was in back in the 90s, I wanted to share that healing journey.
00:07:12.540And it just grew and grew and it turned into advocacy, which I didn't see coming, but it just sort of happened.
00:07:18.540And that's why I'm on here today, talking a little bit about advocacy, because when I became a center point of the veteran community, people just start coming to me and telling me their stories.
00:07:31.540And that's how I found out about veterans being offered MAID.
00:08:13.540It's it's the strangest thing I can get just about any conservative on the show.
00:08:18.540The only one I haven't got yet is Polyev.
00:08:20.540I got everybody else and including the active serving chief of defense staff when Wayne Ayer was in and a former chief chief of defense staff Rick Hillier.
00:08:29.540So I like I get the guests, but I haven't got one member of the Liberal Party, despite all of the invites.
00:08:37.540I don't know why they don't like us. I just don't get it.
00:08:40.540It could have something to do with your explosive Veterans Affairs Committee testimony, where you exposed the angels of death at Veterans Affairs for trying to, I think, clean up their wait lists and do as little work as possible for the exorbitant salaries that they get by offering Canadian veterans made instead of the help the Canadian government is required to give them.
00:09:06.540You you exposed Veterans Affairs for breaking the sacred covenant Canadians have with our veterans.
00:09:13.540And the government is the sort of keeper of that covenant.
00:09:17.540Canadians love and support our veterans, but you expose the government for not holding up their end of the bargain.
00:09:23.540My name is Mark Mainke. I'm an Army veteran who served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
00:09:30.540In 1994, I served as a UN peacekeeper during the genocide in Croatia.
00:09:35.540And for the record, it was not ethnic cleansing. I hate that word. It was a genocide.
00:09:40.540Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism. I was in rotation for Operation Harmony.
00:09:46.540As a result of my service and numerous incidents that happened during my tour, I was injured with PTSD.
00:09:53.540A fellow veteran who runs peer support put his hand on my shoulder and said, let's talk.
00:09:59.540You should come off to peer support. I'm like, no, that's not for me, man.
00:10:02.540But he convinced me and I went and it grew. Then I became a peer support facilitator a year later.
00:10:08.540The veteran, as a result of that, that this is all about, came to me directly and gave me two recordings that were said on Wednesday to not exist.
00:10:17.540And they are in my possession and they're on my phone.
00:10:20.540Well, I think that has made me persona non grata with the Liberals for sure.
00:10:26.540And evidence of that is when I testified the next time.
00:10:31.540And everybody, all the other witnesses had questions, but not me.
00:10:37.540Blake Richards had a couple of questions for me, but everybody else pretended that I wasn't even there.
00:10:41.540So I, yeah, they don't want to talk to me anymore because I'll tell you the truth.
00:10:46.540I'll tell you what I've actually found and it's not good.
00:10:51.540Why don't you go into a little bit about that?
00:10:54.540Because one of the reasons I reached out to you was the Liberals are now campaigning as the saviors of the Canadian Armed Forces and the helpers of our veterans.
00:11:08.540So why don't, before we get into your opinions on that, why don't you tell us some of the things that you uncovered in your work advocating for veterans?
00:11:18.540Well, first to, I'm at a center point in the veteran community.
00:11:23.540So because of that, I get all the crossfire.
00:11:25.540And part of that crossfire just yesterday was former General Rick Hillier, the former chief of defense staff, commenting on Carney's wild claims that conservatives are bad for veterans and liberals are wonderful for veterans.
00:11:42.540And the overall response has just been people doing backflips going, what are you talking about?
00:28:12.540Um, I want to talk to you about, you know, we touched on the liberals a little bit in there, you know, campaigning on the backs of helping the veterans.
00:28:20.540Um, but you know, the polls show right now that the huge lead for the conservatives has vaporized, um, and actually shows the Mark Carney liberals in the lead.
00:28:34.540Uh, I want to get your thoughts on that.
00:29:41.540I mean, you look at the, the poly of rallies and they're packed and they have been for three years.
00:29:47.540Uh, he was doing rallies back when he just started, um, as in, in leadership and the places were packed as that one in Calgary, a huge venue at, I think, Spruce Meadows.
00:30:14.540It's, uh, CBC and CTV depend on taxpayer dollars.
00:30:19.540So this is their final gasp because they know full well that PR is going to keep his, um, uh, promise and he's going to force them to move out of the basement and go on their own.
00:30:33.540You know, you know, they're, they're not going to rely anymore on the government to survive.
00:30:38.540And if you have to rely on the government to survive, you're not a viable business.
00:30:42.540Your, your, your business as broadcasters is to get and keep eyeballs.
00:30:47.540And people think they can do that nowadays through being sensational or, uh, making people angry or scared.
00:30:55.540And yeah, to a degree that works, but what people are dying for, why my show is successful, why your show is successful.
00:31:04.540People want to trust. They want authenticity. That is what they want. And people are just seeing through it now. They know that they're being lied to. I haven't turned on. I used to love CBC.
00:31:17.540I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to have a CBC shirt, you know, cause it just made me feel more Canadian and Canadiana.
00:31:24.540And I used to love David Suzuki. I thought he was the best.
00:31:27.540And now I'm thinking, Oh my God, you know, uh, where are you now? We're like, where's, where's the cool guy from the nature of things now? Where's CBC now? Um, it's dead.
00:31:40.540It's dead and buried. And that nostalgia is all I got left for, for the warm, fuzzy feelings of Canadiana that I used to have for the CBC. That's gone because they just cannot tell the truth. They can't do it.
00:31:55.540And now that they're in their death throes, um, they're pulling out all the stops and that's all it is. So all we're listening to is propaganda. It's funny. You'll hear CBC, uh, lamb based RT Russian television. Oh, that's Russian propaganda. And how are you not Canadian propaganda? It's the same thing. RT CBC, same thing, different country.
00:32:19.580Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm so glad you made that point. Um, because yeah, you, you'll frequently see them saying, well, RT, that's the Russian state broadcaster. And it's like, you're the Canadian state broadcaster.
00:32:32.700You guys know, you guys know where you get your money. Actually, sometimes I think they don't, or they forget, or they take for granted that they are the Canadian state broadcaster. And so they have a mandate to be, as you say, authentic. Um, and speaking of inauthenticity, I, I do get that vibe from Mark Carney and you can see it in treatment of even the slightest of a prickly question from the mainstream media.
00:32:57.460He loses his school. He snaps because I don't think he's ever been in a job where he's been fact-checked before. Uh, and, and now this morning, we're recording this Friday, allegations of plagiarism, um, against him for his master's thesis. So his whole life.
00:33:15.360Oh, that's just Russian disinformation. Don't you know?
00:33:17.660Right. Yeah. Putin cooked that one up.
00:33:19.660Yeah. Yeah. His whole life is built on never being fact-checked. And so he, he, it shows up now in his treatment of the media.
00:33:27.460Well, it's kind of dangerous. Like, uh, Trudeau was known for screaming at women, a lot, uh, women that, that, that worked for him. And, uh, a couple of them have been brave enough to come forward and say, yeah, like I was terrified of the guy, uh, just screaming at me. Cause he just couldn't stand a strong woman.
00:33:45.100And, uh, but Carney's even worse because, uh, Trudeau, he had the ability, if nothing else, he had the ability to put on a fake smile for the camera and, uh, he could take a beating in public. And he did all the time. Our, our friend Brock Blaschek, when he asked him, when he told him, you're acting, you're asking for more than what we can give right now.
00:34:08.640Um, I mean, Trudeau actually handled that as well as anybody could. And he goes places and people are screaming at him and spitting at him and he handles it like an adult. Actually, it's kind of impressive, but that's not Carney. Carney cannot take a Rosemary Barton.
00:34:28.800Is there a, is there, is there a human being on earth that is more friendly to the liberal party than Rosemary Barton? And he just talons out, claws out, attack, and the entire machine got behind, let's attack Rosemary Barton. I tell you, they will eat their own.
00:34:50.660I'm complying with the rules in advance.
00:34:52.700Can you say you are not open to any conflict of interest?
00:34:58.980You don't have to spend most of the time life in the private sector. There's no possible conflict of interest in your assets. It's very difficult to believe.
00:35:08.360Look inside yourself, Rosemary. I mean, you start from a, you start from a, uh, uh, uh, a prior of, of conflict and, uh, ill, uh, ill, uh, ill will. Um, I have served
00:35:22.700in the private sector. I have stood up for Canada. I have left my roles in the private sector
00:35:31.260at a time of crisis for our country. I'm complying with all the rules.
00:35:37.660Your line of questioning is trying to invent new rules. I'm complying with the rules, uh, that, uh,
00:35:43.180that parliament has laid out and the responsibilities, the ethics commissioner. Um, and I will continue to, uh, comply with those rules.
00:35:52.460If you step out of line one little bit, they will eat their own. And Rosemary Barton is the perfect example. God, I mean, she couldn't be more liberal bias and it's still not enough.
00:36:02.860Yeah. And it was funny to see the liberal tribalists go after her as though she's doesn't have an entire career of polishing liberal turds.
00:36:21.780I mean, she's the woman who took the selfie with Justin Trudeau, but for them, all of a sudden, she was a conservative plant. That's how tribalist some of these liberal supporters are.
00:36:33.740It's insanity. And I think what, what we just uncovered here is the biggest difference between the left and the right. We don't eat our own.
00:36:41.940Uh, here we are defending Rosemary Barton of all people. Right.
00:36:46.300And we're, and we're defending her. Right. Um, or, uh, Oh God. Um, Indian in the cabinet. What's her name?
00:37:29.300You know, we still think you're wrong and, but we can see that you're being mistreated and that's not right.
00:37:35.100That's not okay. So we will defend people on the other side, whereas people on the other side would just rather see us drown.
00:37:41.480It wouldn't cross the street to pee on us if we were on fire. And that's the difference between the two sides.
00:37:48.820Yeah. You know, that's such a good point. Uh, you know, I, I see this all the time with the mistreatment of our rebel news journalists.
00:37:57.500People who complain about mean tweets directed at CBC journalists are completely silent when they see David Menzies get arrested or roughed up on the street because they just can't see past their political tribalism to see what's right and what's wrong.
00:38:15.800I just did a little, um, monologue that I, uh, shared on Instagram talking about how important it is to not pick a team and stick to it.
00:38:24.500No matter what I have voted. Hell, I think I grow. I voted green party one year on a lark. You know, I was an actual member of the NDP when Jack Layton was in charge. Cause I kind of like Jack.
00:38:36.400I found out later how corrupt he was, rest in peace. But, uh, at the time he's the only one that made any damn sense to me at the debate. So I voted orange. I even, uh, had a party membership.
00:38:46.560Um, pretty sure I voted for Cray Chen way, way, way back. And that was a mistake.
00:38:51.040Look, he strangled a hippie. I'll always love him for that.
00:38:53.880The Schwinigan handshake. I will always love him for that. That, and didn't his wife club a burglar over the head with a lamp?
00:39:00.840Like fantastic, you know? So I, I'll always love him for that. Um, but the, the point is, is that if you are a liberal for life or you are a conservative for life or in anything for life, if your party goes crazy, you're going crazy with them.
00:39:17.960You know, like call balls and strikes and don't be just brain dead following your, uh, team, no matter what. Cause teams change, leaders change, ideologies change. And they have, these are not the liberals. These are not the Cray Chen liberals, you know, not at all. There's something else entirely.
00:39:40.100I'll give you my own example of this. Actually, I have two, uh, Danielle Smith, when she crossed the floor, when she was with the wild rose, uh, I was the most vicious person you could find against her.
00:39:53.880Yeah. I found what she did was an absolute betrayal of the grassroots. And she figured that out for herself too. Now, what a story of redemption. Um, because, and, and a lot of people who were vicious like me, uh, to her,
00:40:09.560they are her biggest supporters right now. She's forgiven.
00:40:14.100Jason Kenney came in the other direction, came in as someone who's going to, you know, fight back against federal government overreach and advocate for rights and religious freedom and our charter values.
00:40:28.120And then when he was tested during COVID, he completely failed. And people who were like, yep, uh, I like Jason Kenney became his biggest critics, me included.
00:40:37.200So I think it's important that you don't park your, park, your values somewhere and keep them with you, but don't put all your trust in Kings.
00:40:51.160Hypocrisy killed Kenny. I'm trying to do a South Park reference there, but, um, yeah, uh, it was unbelievable. He was so strong.
00:41:00.020Mandates can't do that. I don't even think that's legal. Two weeks later, mandates.
00:41:04.940Yeah. What even is a vaccine passport? Oh, here's your vaccine passport. We're just calling it something different, like 10 days later.
00:41:13.060Um, well, somebody must've got to him. I mean, that, that's such a crazy flip-flop. Doug Ford did the exact same thing, like a wild one 80.
00:41:22.760And, um, and somebody had to chit chat with them. Um, what was the leverage? I don't know, but there was leverage.
00:41:29.940There always is. We don't know everything, I guess. Um, Mark, like I said, I could talk to you forever, uh, but please tell people how they can find out more about the work that you do, um, to help veterans more about your podcast and how they can support you.
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00:42:53.140Thank you so much, Mark, for the work you do for Canada's warriors. Um, I know you save lives every single day and, uh, I'm just so grateful for it.
00:43:35.760Encourage your friends to leave a comment wherever they might find it. YouTube, rumble. That way it helps us get more recognized in the algorithms so that more people see our work.
00:43:49.880And maybe those people we will be converted to be a rebel news plus subscribers. That's the goal anyway.
00:43:56.240Uh, because sometimes I go and I source the comments from over there because I want to know what everybody is saying, but this one actually comes from the mailbag.
00:44:06.720That gets from regular viewer, regular rebel news, super supporter, Bruce Atchison, who is in beautiful Radway, Alberta, just about an hour and a bit north of the capital city.
00:44:18.440And Bruce says, hi, Sheila. Oh, I should tell you, this is on last week's show with my friend, Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World magazine, talking about the liberal sudden come to Jesus moment on pipelines, as if they support pipelines after 10 years plus of doing their best to kill them.
00:44:36.920Um, and, uh, and, uh, how the liberals have failed indigenous people.
00:46:42.100Uh, if Polyev is campaigning on being in touch with the issues that face young families in Canada, like public safety, the cost of living, affordability, immigration, taxes,
00:46:59.220uh, then it is nice to see him with his young family.
00:47:04.120And only a crazy person looks at a father being playful and engaged with his young children and sees something wrong.
00:47:15.420As I said on X, it's like a Rorschach test for a psychopathy.
00:47:20.200If you look at a father enjoying spending time, as much time as he possibly can with his young children, and see something wrong,
00:47:29.760oh, there's something wrong, but it's inside of you.
00:47:33.200Okay, well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.