Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Neglect, decay and MAID： The Liberal legacy on our military

00:00:00.000 The Liberals in their campaign efforts have said that Conservatives have failed the Canadian Armed

00:00:06.980 Forces. I hope the Liberals figure out who's been in charge for the last 10 years. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:00:12.240 and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 And the first part of Canada Strong, it means an armed forces that are well resourced and

00:00:42.600 has those very resources at the ready. And we're here, I'm here, to make that happen.

00:00:51.700 Our military is still underfunded. Under the last Conservative government, when

00:00:59.000 Pierre Polyev was a minister, that government was spending less than 1% of GDP on defence.

00:01:08.900 And Conservatives abandoned our armed forces and shamefully abandoned our veterans, closing

00:01:15.280 area offices across Canada. Since then, Canada has doubled down on our national shipbuilding

00:01:24.760 strategy, which right here in Halifax is creating good-paying union jobs for Canadian workers.

00:01:32.360 You know, of all the groups I thought the Liberals would know well enough to not campaign on the

00:01:37.760 backs of, it would be the veterans of this country. The veterans of this country have been told

00:01:44.160 by the Liberals over the course of the last 10 years that they are inconvenient, that they're

00:01:48.540 asking for more than the Liberals are willing to give them.

00:01:52.540 You made the promise, and I'll quote it here, no veteran will be forced to fight their own government

00:01:58.440 for the support and compensation they have earned. Yet you are still currently in a legal battle with veterans

00:02:04.540 regarding equal support and compensation to their peers. You have ISIL or ISIS members coming into a reintegration program.

00:02:17.540 You did a backdoor deal with Omar Qadar with not even stepping into the courtroom.

00:02:23.540 So, again, my question is, what veterans were you talking about? Was it the ones that fought for the freedoms and values

00:02:32.540 that you so proudly boast about, or was it the ones who fought against? Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister,

00:02:39.540 I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military. Nobody forced me to join the military.

00:02:46.540 I was prepared to be killed in action. What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister,

00:02:53.540 is Canada turning its back on me. So which veteran was it that you were talking about?

00:03:07.540 Why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than one 0.78

00:03:15.540 we are able to give right now. And they have been offered medical assistance in dying, told it's their civic

00:03:22.540 and national duty to just drop dead instead of seeking care and help.

00:03:28.540 With respect to MAID, I have a letter in my file because I had to face that as well.

00:03:36.540 I have a letter saying that if you are so desperate, Madam, we can offer you MAID medical assistance in dying. 0.92

00:03:45.540 This is Mark Meinke. I'm an Army veteran who served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

00:03:51.540 In 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.

00:04:00.540 Ethnic 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.

00:04:14.540 A fellow veteran who runs peer support put his hand on my shoulder and said, let's talk. You should come off to peer support.

00:04:22.540 I'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.

00:04:29.540 The 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.

00:04:37.540 And they are in my possession and they're on my phone. That, that, that caseworker did not inform him of services.

00:04:47.540 That 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.

00:04:57.540 I have here the transcript, which of course, I cannot get a hold of the veteran because he was so distraught he left the country.

00:05:05.540 From the government agency, Veterans Affairs Canada, that exists to help them.

00:05:11.540 And yet, Liberal leader Mark Carney making campaign statements that it is the Conservatives who have failed Canada's veterans.

00:05:21.540 The Liberals had 10 years to fix the problems of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Veterans Administration.

00:05:29.540 They have not. I think they've made it worse, but that's just my opinion on the outside looking in.

00:05:35.540 I thought I would call a veterans advocate and a veteran himself, Mark Meinke.

00:05:41.540 He's an Alberta-based, internationally renowned podcaster.

00:05:47.540 He's suffered trauma and now he fights to help people get over it or recover from it as best they can.

00:05:55.540 And he's got some things to say about how the Liberals are campaigning on the backs of the Canadian Armed Forces.

00:06:02.540 Take a listen.

00:06:03.540 So joining me now is my friend and star of one of our documentaries made the dark side of Canadian compassion podcaster, Mark Meinke.

00:06:21.540 Mark, 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.

00:06:33.540 Tell us about it.

00:06:34.540 And importantly, how can people find you and support your work?

00:06:37.540 I think that's so important.

00:06:39.540 Well, thanks. And thanks again for having me on.

00:06:42.540 Every 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.

00:06:51.540 And if where they're at is is my show and perfect.

00:06:56.540 So 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.

00:07:12.540 And it just grew and grew and it turned into advocacy, which I didn't see coming, but it just sort of happened.

00:07:18.540 And 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.

00:07:31.540 And that's how I found out about veterans being offered MAID.

00:07:34.540 And so the show covers that as well.

00:07:38.540 It's mostly a an aggregate for resources, though.

00:07:41.540 So I find every resource I can for veterans healing and I bring it to the show where I give them a platform.

00:07:48.540 And isn't it sad that somebody had to like nobody else thought of that?

00:07:52.540 Like to me, that should be the job of Veterans Affairs Canada.

00:07:55.540 They should be looking around and compiling a list of every resource imaginable, but they don't.

00:08:02.540 And even though I'm in my sixth year of doing this, they've never given me a call.

00:08:07.540 I've invited them probably a dozen times to be to be a guest.

00:08:11.540 And nope, won't touch me.

00:08:13.540 It's it's the strangest thing I can get just about any conservative on the show.

00:08:18.540 The only one I haven't got yet is Polyev.

00:08:20.540 I 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.

00:08:29.540 So I like I get the guests, but I haven't got one member of the Liberal Party, despite all of the invites.

00:08:37.540 I don't know why they don't like us. I just don't get it.

00:08:40.540 It 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.

00:09:06.540 You you exposed Veterans Affairs for breaking the sacred covenant Canadians have with our veterans.

00:09:13.540 And the government is the sort of keeper of that covenant.

00:09:17.540 Canadians love and support our veterans, but you expose the government for not holding up their end of the bargain.

00:09:23.540 My name is Mark Mainke. I'm an Army veteran who served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

00:09:30.540 In 1994, I served as a UN peacekeeper during the genocide in Croatia.

00:09:35.540 And for the record, it was not ethnic cleansing. I hate that word. It was a genocide.

00:09:40.540 Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism. I was in rotation for Operation Harmony. 0.59

00:09:46.540 As a result of my service and numerous incidents that happened during my tour, I was injured with PTSD.

00:09:53.540 A fellow veteran who runs peer support put his hand on my shoulder and said, let's talk.

00:09:59.540 You should come off to peer support. I'm like, no, that's not for me, man.

00:10:02.540 But he convinced me and I went and it grew. Then I became a peer support facilitator a year later.

00:10:08.540 The 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.

00:10:17.540 And they are in my possession and they're on my phone.

00:10:20.540 Well, I think that has made me persona non grata with the Liberals for sure.

00:10:26.540 And evidence of that is when I testified the next time.

00:10:31.540 And everybody, all the other witnesses had questions, but not me.

00:10:37.540 Blake Richards had a couple of questions for me, but everybody else pretended that I wasn't even there.

00:10:41.540 So I, yeah, they don't want to talk to me anymore because I'll tell you the truth.

00:10:46.540 I'll tell you what I've actually found and it's not good.

00:10:51.540 Why don't you go into a little bit about that?

00:10:54.540 Because 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.

00:11:08.540 So 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?

00:11:18.540 Well, first to, I'm at a center point in the veteran community.

00:11:23.540 So because of that, I get all the crossfire.

00:11:25.540 And 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.

00:11:42.540 And the overall response has just been people doing backflips going, what are you talking about?

00:11:51.540 That is the opposite of the truth.

00:11:54.540 It's just, and to back up the clock a little bit, I was, I served in the dark decade in the nineties where it was force reduction plan.

00:12:04.540 So they were paying people to get out, to retire early and they slashed the forces.

00:12:09.540 I forget what the numbers were in the late eighties, but I think we had like 160,000 members of the military.

00:12:17.540 That's land, air and sea.

00:12:19.540 So super tiny.

00:12:20.540 And now I think we're at like 40 or 50,000.

00:12:23.540 Like, it's just ridiculous.

00:12:25.540 We are so tiny. 0.98

00:12:26.540 And the barrier to entry is a bit silly as well.

00:12:29.540 My oldest boy is in the reserves, but holy smokes to get in the reserves.

00:12:35.540 Uh, he started the process when he was 15 years old and, uh, they made him, um, kind of restart it.

00:12:41.540 And so he couldn't even get it going until he was 16.

00:12:44.540 Cause at 16, you're allowed to join, but why can't you start the process early?

00:12:49.540 So that on your 16th birthday, you can just hop on in.

00:12:52.540 Uh, just all the bureaucratic barriers to entry are ridiculous.

00:12:56.540 And right now he can't even get on his, um, trades course.

00:12:59.540 Uh, they don't know when the next one's going to run or how it's going to run.

00:13:04.540 Cause there's no budget for it.

00:13:05.540 And this is our reserves that you have to support.

00:13:08.540 That's a big part of our military, but they're flailing. 0.59

00:13:12.540 Everybody that I talked to that's still serving the training budgets are absolutely ridiculous.

00:13:18.540 And it's always been that way.

00:13:20.540 And anybody that's been serving for 30, 35 years, like a lot of my friends have that

00:13:25.540 they'll tell you every time the liberals get in and there's no budget.

00:13:30.540 Again, conservatives get in, it gets better, not great, but better.

00:13:35.540 So yeah, there's no liberal saviors when it comes to, when it comes to the veteran community

00:13:42.540 and certainly not the active service community for goodness sakes.

00:13:45.540 Um, how many times did Trudeau skip remembrance day ceremonies?

00:13:50.540 Now, I think you went to two out of nine, something like that.

00:13:53.540 You'd have to fact check that, but it seems about right to me.

00:13:57.540 Yeah.

00:13:58.540 I mean, I think a lot of Canadians who at least know somebody who has been in the CAF or someone

00:14:04.540 who's trying to join the CAF.

00:14:06.540 I mean, there was a young man close to my family and he, he went to basic training, uh, early

00:14:15.540 this year.

00:14:16.540 And he would have been accepted much sooner if he had told them that he was gay.

00:14:22.540 Instead, he was just a young man who wanted to serve his country.

00:14:27.540 He, you know, he, he met all the fitness requirements.

00:14:32.540 This is something that he has considered for years and years and years, but he didn't check

00:14:37.540 any woke diversity boxes.

00:14:39.540 So he got sort of shuffled down the list over and over again.

00:14:42.540 And I want to ask you about that, this emphasis on wokeness and the, the lowering of the recruitment

00:14:48.540 standards.

00:14:49.540 Uh, I'm not sure how that makes us more ready for deployment.

00:14:53.540 Um, I got, uh, some mixed feelings on it.

00:14:56.540 So, um, when I served in the nineties, if, if a dude was gay, especially in the infantry,

00:15:02.540 cause that's, you know, that's the scary part of the military. 0.99

00:15:05.540 You're, you're, you're the provincial professional killer.

00:15:08.540 So, um, there was nobody that was out then, but not that long ago, I met a fellow that served 0.98

00:15:15.540 in my regiment in the princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry, and he was openly gay.

00:15:20.540 Um, he was dating a friend of mine and I asked him about that.

00:15:25.540 So like, how, how's that go?

00:15:27.540 You know, like, are you getting a rough ride or it's like, no, everybody leaves me alone. 0.98

00:15:32.540 Nobody gives a shit, you know? 0.99

00:15:35.540 Um, like he, he behaves appropriately and nothing silly. 0.99

00:15:39.540 And then he gets treated with respect.

00:15:42.540 You know, the, all anybody cares is, can you do your job?

00:15:46.540 Right.

00:15:47.540 Can you do your job?

00:15:49.540 And, and that's it.

00:15:50.540 So, and the big strapping dude too, uh, I remember him, but yeah.

00:15:56.540 So, I mean, that's only one story from, from one fella, but to me, and from the people that

00:16:04.540 I know, I don't know of any gay haters that are veterans.

00:16:08.540 I don't think I've even met one, you know, it's quite the opposite is we just don't care.

00:16:14.540 Do your job.

00:16:15.540 Are you a decent person?

00:16:16.540 Can I trust you in a firefight?

00:16:18.540 That's it.

00:16:19.540 That's all anybody cares.

00:16:20.540 But there's this, um, perception of toxic masculinity and I just don't get it.

00:16:26.540 I mean, my best guess, if I ever have a chance to talk to Jordan Peterson, I'll ask him to psychoanalyze

00:16:31.540 it, but it seems like the liberals are usually full of betas and they resent the alphas because

00:16:41.540 they see somebody that they aren't, that they wish that they were, and they pretend to be,

00:16:45.540 but they are not.

00:16:46.540 And the impression, especially with combat arms trades, like the infantry is, Oh, these

00:16:53.540 are, these are the alphas and I'm no, I'm not an alpha.

00:16:56.540 So I'll just call it toxic masculinity and resent it because I can't be it.

00:17:01.540 That's, that's my best guess.

00:17:03.540 Anyway, my, uh, two years of college.

00:17:06.540 Yeah.

00:17:07.540 I mean, that's, I think you're right.

00:17:08.540 I think there's a gross misunderstanding of the mindset of the men and women in the military.

00:17:15.540 That, uh, I think it's the, uh, soft bigotry of low expectations from the left saying, you

00:17:23.540 know, like these guys in the military, the, they, uh, they must, because they are so masculine 0.96

00:17:32.540 that they must hate the gays. 0.98

00:17:34.540 Instead. 0.99

00:17:35.540 They just don't care.

00:17:36.540 Like they just don't care at all.

00:17:37.540 They just don't care.

00:17:38.540 Um, that's what I think.

00:17:40.540 And I see it a lot of times cause you sort of get that soft bigotry of low expectations

00:17:44.540 directed at women to from the liberals.

00:17:46.540 Like we need their help to succeed.

00:17:48.540 We need them to protect us because, uh, we couldn't possibly, uh, take care of ourselves.

00:17:54.540 They need to draft gun policy to protect us, but their gun policy is just, you know, taking

00:18:00.540 away firearms from me and my daughters.

00:18:03.540 I, it just, it, things get flipped on their head, um, because, uh, they don't, I think the

00:18:08.540 left doesn't really talk to us so they don't really understand us best way to protect women 0.99

00:18:13.540 is to give them gun rights.

00:18:15.540 Thank you.

00:18:16.540 It's pretty simple.

00:18:17.540 Yeah.

00:18:18.540 I mean, uh, Sheila, you're in awfully good shape.

00:18:20.540 I had you on the arm wrestling table. 1.00

00:18:21.540 I know you're strong, but I'm sorry, darling, you don't have a chance against me in a fist

00:18:26.540 fight, but with a gun, that's the great equalizer.

00:18:29.540 And, uh, and then I don't have a chance of hurting you.

00:18:33.540 So women should be promoted to, to be able to conceal carry. 1.00

00:18:39.540 And I know that would make most Canadians heads explode, but I believe that.

00:18:43.540 Not mine.

00:18:44.540 It makes sense to me.

00:18:45.540 When I go to the United States, uh, especially those states that border Alberta and you see

00:18:51.540 people with a pistol on their hip at the grocery store.

00:18:54.540 Beautiful.

00:18:55.540 I love it.

00:18:56.540 The sparkly belts that I would wear.

00:18:59.540 So, because I had a pistol on my hip, I would be, I'd wear a sparkly belt too.

00:19:04.540 Yeah.

00:19:05.540 I'm tired of keeping my cell phone in my concealed carry pouch of my purse.

00:19:10.540 Um, no, I want to, I want to talk to you about, uh, statements of Mark Carney, uh, as

00:19:18.540 we're recording this on a Friday morning, um, earlier this week about how conservatives have

00:19:24.540 failed veterans and, and liberals are the ones to, uh, really help veterans in the Canadian

00:19:31.540 armed forces.

00:19:32.540 I hope he finds out who's been in charge the last nine or 10 years.

00:19:37.540 Um, so that he can talk to them about how I think, and I mean, I'm just an outsider looking

00:19:42.540 in how I truly believe that the liberals have failed our veterans from offering them euthanasia

00:19:48.540 instead of help to telling them that they're asking for more than they can give to, uh,

00:19:54.540 failing, uh, to address the issues of recruitment and then retention.

00:19:59.540 I think my gross misunderstanding of the kind of people who want to join our military and,

00:20:05.540 you know, just the, the idea that we have people who are living on our military bases,

00:20:10.540 who are accessing food banks.

00:20:12.540 Uh, there are serious problems with the Canadian armed forces with, uh, how Canada treats our

00:20:19.540 veterans and the liberals had 10 years to fix it.

00:20:22.540 If we go back to 2006, that's when the veterans charter, um, flipped and the pension for life

00:20:32.540 disappeared.

00:20:33.540 So anybody that was injured before that, like my friend, Tommy Anderson, and that had his

00:20:37.540 legs blown off on our tour, uh, he was covered for life guaranteed.

00:20:41.540 No world, no worries financially, but after 2006, not so much.

00:20:47.540 Now they've got a couple of programs that are kind of replacing it, but it's not clear

00:20:53.540 cut and you got to fight tooth and nail to get it.

00:20:55.540 But right now, uh, if you get your legs blown off, it's there, there's some gray area on how

00:21:01.540 that's going to be handled.

00:21:02.540 And most veterans, they're going to be, uh, feeling abandoned because of what happened in

00:21:08.540 2006.

00:21:09.540 And that was bilateral.

00:21:10.540 That was everybody.

00:21:11.540 So everybody piled on with somehow the help of the Royal Canadian Legion, which absolutely is

00:21:16.540 not our voice should never be considered our voice.

00:21:19.540 They have no idea, um, what the veteran community is except for with a few exceptions.

00:21:25.540 I know some great ones, but all in all, the, the Legion is not what they were 80 years ago

00:21:32.540 and has no place, uh, speaking on our behalf, none whatsoever, but they all got together and

00:21:39.540 scrapped the veterans charter in 2006.

00:21:42.540 So that's where most people are going to say, no, you're not the savior.

00:21:46.540 Everybody, everybody failed with that.

00:21:49.540 Now in the last 10 years, uh, there are programs that are available, which are good, but try to

00:21:56.540 access them.

00:21:57.540 That's the challenge, the bureaucratic nightmare.

00:22:00.540 Uh, my wife is a former school principal and a university professor. 0.73

00:22:05.540 She can't get through the mess and she's good at that stuff. 1.00

00:22:09.540 Uh, there's no veterans, uh, almost no veterans that can access the programs that they are entitled

00:22:17.540 to and that they need without help.

00:22:19.540 So we have service officers and that's where the legions do well, where there's people that,

00:22:24.540 that know the system where the goalposts are constantly moving and the names of the programs

00:22:30.540 are always shuffled.

00:22:31.540 They're always shuffling the deck chairs and you just, you don't know.

00:22:34.540 Okay.

00:22:35.540 Well, that program was called one thing last week, a different thing this week.

00:22:39.540 And the criteria to, to apply for it has changed.

00:22:43.540 It's, it's impossible.

00:22:45.540 You can like almost nobody can do it without help.

00:22:48.540 And that is predatory creating barriers to entry, bureaucratic barriers to entry for life

00:22:55.540 saving treatment is predatory and people are dying because of it.

00:23:00.540 I know of several that, uh, haven't even bothered a friend of mine, just a couple of weeks ago,

00:23:07.540 we were chatting.

00:23:08.540 I served with him.

00:23:09.540 We were in, uh, in Croatia together and he was blown up by a grenade way back in 91.

00:23:14.540 And the shrapnel is still in there.

00:23:17.540 Uh, and now he's looking at his, uh, his foot might have to be amputated and they haven't

00:23:23.540 helped him the whole time.

00:23:24.540 You know, it's like, well, we're not sure that service related it's grenade shrapnel.

00:23:28.540 What are you talking about?

00:23:29.540 I didn't get this at Walmart.

00:23:31.540 Yeah.

00:23:32.540 And so now he might be losing a foot because for, since 1991, there's been no followup,

00:23:39.540 no correct treatment.

00:23:41.540 And he has nowhere.

00:23:42.540 He has no idea where to go or what to do and, and, and how to deal with it.

00:23:46.540 I'm like, dude, I'm the subject matter expert.

00:23:49.540 Call me.

00:23:50.540 I'll help you.

00:23:51.540 I will, but we need to help each other.

00:23:54.540 Cause you can't wait for back.

00:23:56.540 That's why my entire show exists because, uh, veterans affairs, isn't putting together

00:24:02.540 a list of service providers.

00:24:03.540 It doesn't exist other than my show.

00:24:06.540 Well, why was that up to me?

00:24:08.540 But you know, you can't wait for the government to save you.

00:24:11.540 You got to step up yourself and just do it.

00:24:13.540 So I did.

00:24:14.540 You know, uh, and I'm so glad you did.

00:24:17.540 Cause I know you help many, many people in the veterans space, but it's not just the

00:24:21.540 veterans space.

00:24:22.540 Um, your show also focuses on trauma recovery in general.

00:24:27.540 Um, and I think you do it in a very raw way, um, in an honest way.

00:24:32.540 Um, and I think a lot of people are very grateful for that because you're very open.

00:24:38.540 And I know you were very open with me in our documentary about what happened to you and what drove you

00:24:46.540 to be an advocate for veterans and, and to really be someone who fights against medical assistance

00:24:52.540 and dying being offered to our veterans, because you found yourself in that headspace one day.

00:24:58.540 I was at the edge.

00:24:59.540 I attempted suicide in 2021.

00:25:01.540 Um, I had what some would call a psychotic break.

00:25:05.540 Others would, um, I say a disassociative episode and my brain wasn't working and I didn't think

00:25:11.540 that I was trying to end my life.

00:25:13.540 I just thought, Oh, this will be an interesting sensation.

00:25:15.540 It'd be kind of like getting a tattoo opening up my wrist and Whoa, what a nice sleep and how

00:25:19.540 relaxing this will be.

00:25:20.540 My brain was not working.

00:25:22.540 I was in overload and, uh, it was veterans affairs that put me there.

00:25:30.540 More than anything else, because I felt like I was getting closer and closer to the edge.

00:25:35.540 But, um, the only resources that were offered to me were through the OSI clinic.

00:25:39.540 It's operational stress injury clinic.

00:25:41.540 And the therapist that I had, when I told her that I was worried that I might do this because,

00:25:46.540 you know, um, she says, no, you won't.

00:25:49.540 You're fine.

00:25:50.540 If you haven't done it yet, you won't do it.

00:25:52.540 And, uh, not great advice.

00:25:54.540 Oh yeah.

00:25:55.540 And the knife that you would envision using just hide it.

00:25:58.540 That's what she said.

00:26:00.540 And so I fired her two weeks later.

00:26:03.540 I thought about it.

00:26:04.540 I didn't react or responded.

00:26:05.540 I waited two weeks to sort of stew on that advice.

00:26:08.540 And, uh, before I realized, Oh my gosh, you know, that was really not helpful.

00:26:13.540 And matter of fact, that was pretty damaging.

00:26:15.540 Cause when I was, I knew I was getting close to the edge and I needed help.

00:26:20.540 And the one place I went for help, um, didn't help.

00:26:24.540 They, it was almost like she was daring me.

00:26:26.540 Like she was trying to push me off the edge.

00:26:28.540 And three months after that phone call, I did snap.

00:26:31.540 And I, I attempted to take my life. 0.98

00:26:34.540 So that sucks. 0.72

00:26:36.540 And telling my wife that after the fact, when I survived it and telling my children, not good. 0.99

00:26:43.540 And that didn't land very well.

00:26:45.540 And now they're always kind of got an eye on me, even though I'm okay now.

00:26:50.540 Um, but the place I went for help didn't help.

00:26:53.540 They hurt.

00:26:54.540 And that's called sanctuary trauma where the people you're supposed to be able to trust to help you hurt you.

00:27:00.540 And it's one of the most brutal things to get, get over and get through.

00:27:04.540 So that was, that's been my experience with, uh, veterans affairs and using the system and just to throw it in there.

00:27:11.540 Um, I'm not discouraging talk therapy, not at all.

00:27:14.540 Like it's better than nothing, but the effective rate.

00:27:17.540 And these are numbers right from our own OSI clinics.

00:27:20.540 And it's also throughout the American military, 12 to 16% effective, 12 to 16%.

00:27:27.540 That's it.

00:27:28.540 Now what they call effective, who knows?

00:27:31.540 But 12 to 16% is all veterans affairs offers me.

00:27:35.540 That's why my show exists because there's gotta be a better mousetrap than that.

00:27:40.540 And there is, I've found dozens of them and I've bring them to the show.

00:27:43.540 So people can decide and choose like a Chinese menu.

00:27:47.540 Like, what do you want?

00:27:48.540 It's all there.

00:27:50.540 And I think it's great.

00:27:52.540 Uh, I know people, um, who are friends of mine who are veterans who, I mean, you're the number one trauma recovery podcast.

00:28:00.540 I'm a recovery podcast in the world.

00:28:01.540 So it's no surprise to you that people I know regularly listen to your show and I'm just so grateful for it.

00:28:07.540 And I know they are too.

00:28:08.540 Um, before I let you go, cause I could keep you all day.

00:28:11.540 You know that.

00:28:12.540 Um, 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.

00:28:20.540 Um, 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.

00:28:34.540 Uh, I want to get your thoughts on that.

00:28:37.540 I'm not sure the polls are accurate.

00:28:40.540 Um, given that we just saw, you know, the, uh, the polls get the American election completely wrong.

00:28:46.540 Um, but, but I just want to get your sense on this.

00:28:49.540 Cause we were talking about it before we started recording.

00:28:51.540 And I thought, you know, that's a great conversation for us to have recorded.

00:28:54.540 So tell me what you think.

00:28:55.540 Well, it seems just like the U S election to me.

00:28:58.540 I'm calling him Kamala Carney.

00:29:00.540 Every time he opens his, his mouth, it's just mumbling and fumbling.

00:29:04.540 And he doesn't know what he believes.

00:29:07.540 He's just trying to figure out what he should say that, that might play well.

00:29:11.540 Um, the guy is to me just inauthentic and I'm not getting any good vibes off him.

00:29:20.540 He says one thing on one day, two days later in Quebec, he says exactly the opposite thing and equally strong.

00:29:27.540 So, I mean, it's just not honest.

00:29:30.540 And the media is covering form and it's just like Kamala Harris.

00:29:35.540 It's the same.

00:29:36.540 Uh, the polls had her, Oh, it's a close race.

00:29:39.540 It's neck and neck.

00:29:40.540 I don't think so.

00:29:41.540 I mean, you look at the, the poly of rallies and they're packed and they have been for three years.

00:29:47.540 Uh, 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.

00:29:59.540 And it was packed.

00:30:00.540 Adam Sose was there.

00:30:02.540 Um, well, how can you have packed venues, large venues on one side, empty rooms on the other, and yet they're ahead.

00:30:12.540 There's no actual enthusiasm for it.

00:30:14.540 It's, uh, CBC and CTV depend on taxpayer dollars.

00:30:19.540 So 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.

00:30:33.540 You know, you know, they're, they're not going to rely anymore on the government to survive.

00:30:38.540 And if you have to rely on the government to survive, you're not a viable business.

00:30:42.540 Your, your, your business as broadcasters is to get and keep eyeballs.

00:30:47.540 And people think they can do that nowadays through being sensational or, uh, making people angry or scared.

00:30:55.540 And yeah, to a degree that works, but what people are dying for, why my show is successful, why your show is successful.

00:31:04.540 People 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.

00:31:17.540 I 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.

00:31:24.540 And I used to love David Suzuki. I thought he was the best.

00:31:27.540 And 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.

00:31:40.540 It'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.

00:31:55.540 And 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.

00:32:19.580 Yeah. 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.

00:32:32.700 You 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.

00:32:57.460 He 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.

00:33:15.360 Oh, that's just Russian disinformation. Don't you know?

00:33:17.660 Right. Yeah. Putin cooked that one up.

00:33:19.660 Yeah. 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.

00:33:27.460 Well, 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.

00:33:45.100 And, 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.

00:34:08.640 Um, 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.

00:34:28.800 Is 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.

00:34:50.660 I'm complying with the rules in advance.

00:34:52.700 Can you say you are not open to any conflict of interest?

00:34:58.780 Yes.

00:34:58.980 You 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.

00:35:08.360 Look 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

00:35:22.700 in the private sector. I have stood up for Canada. I have left my roles in the private sector

00:35:31.260 at a time of crisis for our country. I'm complying with all the rules.

00:35:37.660 Your line of questioning is trying to invent new rules. I'm complying with the rules, uh, that, uh,

00:35:43.180 that parliament has laid out and the responsibilities, the ethics commissioner. Um, and I will continue to, uh, comply with those rules.

00:35:52.460 If 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.

00:36:02.860 Yeah. 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. 1.00

00:36:21.780 I 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.

00:36:33.740 It'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.

00:36:41.940 Uh, here we are defending Rosemary Barton of all people. Right.

00:36:46.300 And we're, and we're defending her. Right. Um, or, uh, Oh God. Um, Indian in the cabinet. What's her name? 0.56

00:36:54.360 Oh, uh, Jody Wilson-Raybould.

00:36:56.420 Yeah. And we defend Jody Wilson-Raybould and, uh, and, uh, Jane Philpott. These are not people that are on our team and we defend them.

00:37:06.040 I was like, you know what, Thomas Mulcair, you're making a lot of sense these days.

00:37:09.820 Yeah. He sounds reasonable.

00:37:11.600 Right.

00:37:11.960 You know, and, uh, so we will cheer you on if, uh, if, uh, if you're on, we will cheer you on if we think you're right.

00:37:22.020 And we see them, I think, or if you're, or if we think you're wrong, but we can see that you're being mistreated.

00:37:27.760 Right. Right.

00:37:29.300 You know, we still think you're wrong and, but we can see that you're being mistreated and that's not right.

00:37:35.100 That's not okay. So we will defend people on the other side, whereas people on the other side would just rather see us drown.

00:37:41.480 It wouldn't cross the street to pee on us if we were on fire. And that's the difference between the two sides.

00:37:48.820 Yeah. 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.

00:37:57.500 People 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.

00:38:13.020 And, and I hope I'm never like that.

00:38:15.800 I 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.

00:38:24.500 No 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.

00:38:36.400 I 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.

00:38:46.560 Um, pretty sure I voted for Cray Chen way, way, way back. And that was a mistake.

00:38:51.040 Look, he strangled a hippie. I'll always love him for that. 1.00

00:38:53.880 The Schwinigan handshake. I will always love him for that. That, and didn't his wife club a burglar over the head with a lamp?

00:39:00.840 Like 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.

00:39:17.440 Right.

00:39:17.960 You 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. 0.56

00:39:40.100 I'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.

00:39:52.440 That one hurt.

00:39:53.880 Yeah. 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,

00:40:09.560 they are her biggest supporters right now. She's forgiven.

00:40:14.100 Jason 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.

00:40:28.120 And 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.

00:40:37.200 So 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.

00:40:48.120 Hypocrisy killed Kenny.

00:40:49.720 Oh yes. 0.94

00:40:51.160 Hypocrisy killed Kenny. I'm trying to do a South Park reference there, but, um, yeah, uh, it was unbelievable. He was so strong.

00:41:00.020 Mandates can't do that. I don't even think that's legal. Two weeks later, mandates.

00:41:04.940 Yeah. What even is a vaccine passport? Oh, here's your vaccine passport. We're just calling it something different, like 10 days later.

00:41:13.060 Um, 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.

00:41:22.760 And, um, and somebody had to chit chat with them. Um, what was the leverage? I don't know, but there was leverage.

00:41:29.940 There 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.

00:41:46.780 Operation.

00:41:47.380 This is a job for you too.

00:41:48.600 Everybody says it, but they say it for a reason. If you want to help save a life or more, uh, like, follow, comment, subscribe, leave a five-star rating on Spotify by doing that.

00:42:00.980 It helps other people find the resource. So you're shining a beacon of hope by supporting me by liking, following, subscribing.

00:42:08.100 My YouTube channel freaking sucks. I have two of them and, uh, there's just, I've had like one good video on there.

00:42:14.560 That's when I had Daniel Smith as a guest other than that. Oh, and then the other fantastic videos when I had Sheila gun read on, but, uh, other than that, uh, my YouTube sucks.

00:42:24.500 So please help me out on there. Spotify as well, leave a rating. The mission is to save lives and relieve pain by making help for PTS injuries, easily accessible.

00:42:35.760 The vision is of a world where the path to recovery is clear. So if you want, if that sounds good to you, the mission and vision, uh, join me on that mission and, uh, support like comment, subscribe and share, share like the sugar bear, because sharing is caring.

00:42:53.140 Thank 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.

00:43:03.380 Thank you, my friend.

00:43:05.760 Thank you.

00:43:35.760 Encourage 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.

00:43:49.880 And maybe those people we will be converted to be a rebel news plus subscribers. That's the goal anyway.

00:43:56.240 Uh, 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.

00:44:06.720 That 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.

00:44:18.440 And 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.

00:44:36.920 Um, and, uh, and, uh, how the liberals have failed indigenous people.

00:44:44.520 Let's hear what Bruce has to say.

00:44:48.440 Robbie really hit the proverbial home run tonight.

00:44:51.400 Carney is an ersatz prime minister with no mandate from the people. 0.99

00:44:55.760 If the lying liberals do get in, mainly through Ontario and Quebec's fools voting for them, I'd be happy to become an American. 0.98

00:45:03.820 I think a lot of Albertans feel that way. 0.99

00:45:06.200 A lot of Albertans might be shy to say it, but I think a lot of them do.

00:45:10.440 For too long, we've been dominated by folks living along the St. Lawrence sewer way.

00:45:16.240 I'm praying with all my might that Pierre Polyev wins.

00:45:19.920 That's a good tip, too, about conservative politicians showing their human side.

00:45:24.480 That's one thing that Robbie tries to do is he tries to humanize the right.

00:45:28.300 We're painted as robotic villains by the in-touch-with-their-feelings liberal left.

00:45:35.860 And, uh, not just conservative politicians, but conservative people in general.

00:45:41.820 Uh, the media has a bizarre perception about us.

00:45:45.100 We're very family-oriented, by and large.

00:45:47.740 We like kids, and we're warm people.

00:45:50.060 But you wouldn't know that if you got your news from the mainstream media.

00:45:53.700 And so Robbie tries to do a bit of undoing of that sentiment through Oil & Gas World magazine.

00:45:59.280 I've been in Oil & Gas World magazine this month.

00:46:03.900 It's conservative MP from Lakeland, Shannon Stubbs, who is lovely.

00:46:09.020 Pierre already does that, and I hope Shannon Stubbs will do the same.

00:46:11.940 Yours with Delta the Cat, Bruce Atchison.

00:46:14.760 Yeah, I saw some really sweet photos of Pierre Polyev on the campaign trail with his little ones.

00:46:21.180 Uh, both, I think it was on a train, and then, uh, at a campaign event, and he had his little one on his shoulders.

00:46:28.700 And the comments from the left were absolutely deranged.

00:46:32.620 They were terrible.

00:46:34.180 They were saying stuff like, you know, this is not a, the campaign trail is not a place for children.

00:46:41.660 Really?

00:46:42.100 Uh, 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,

00:46:59.220 uh, then it is nice to see him with his young family.

00:47:04.120 And only a crazy person looks at a father being playful and engaged with his young children and sees something wrong.

00:47:15.420 As I said on X, it's like a Rorschach test for a psychopathy.

00:47:20.200 If you look at a father enjoying spending time, as much time as he possibly can with his young children, and see something wrong,

00:47:29.760 oh, there's something wrong, but it's inside of you.

00:47:33.200 Okay, well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:47:36.240 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:47:37.540 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:47:40.660 Please subscribe to Mark's podcast.

00:47:43.300 And as I always say, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:48:03.200 Thank you.

00:48:10.660 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - April 02, 2025

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Neglect, decay and MAID： The Liberal legacy on our military

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