Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer send nearly identical tweets about a Syrian restaurant in Toronto. Why is it so hard to tell the difference between them? Ezra takes you through the tweets and tries to figure out why they re so nearly identical.
00:12:19.920He's literally wearing a mask as his colleague screamed Nazi at a little old lady.
00:12:25.240Now, let me read a bit more from the liars at the CBC State Broadcaster who are obscuring, not revealing.
00:12:32.120The family also said their son was doxxed, meaning his personal information was released online with malicious intent and physically assaulted.
00:12:40.380Our family and business do not condone acts of hate, violence, or harassment in any shape or form.
00:12:45.840The statement said, we want to restate that we are not affiliated with any political group or organization or either side of the political spectrum.
00:12:53.040We simply believe in kindness, peace, and understanding between all people.
00:12:57.700Now, I think that's probably true of those two lovely parents.
00:13:02.480The couple from Saudi Arabia who look normal and productive, members of the Sunni, they don't look radical.
00:13:12.680They're not Syrian in any real way other than they left that place 24 years ago.
00:13:17.180I'm not sure why they keep being described as Syrian refugees when they haven't been there since 1995.
00:13:22.520We don't recognize people from Saudi Arabia as refugees, and that's where the family came from.
00:13:26.980They were actually quite rich in Saudi Arabia.
00:13:29.280But I think maybe this couple does a little bit of fibbing, too.
00:13:33.720I think they're downplaying the thuggery of their son.
00:13:36.860I think they're lying about him a little bit.
00:13:39.260I find it hard to believe that they don't know what he's doing with his spare time because he keeps doing it, doesn't he?
00:13:44.940And he's not shy about cameras, is he?
00:13:46.500I mean, maybe he takes a few shifts at the restaurant in between, but protesting against Canada, hating Canada, seems to be his real job.
00:13:55.080I wonder why he hates Canada so much, why he protests against us, why he wears a mask, why he gets into fights, why he gets into riots, why he participates in the bullying of an 81-year-old woman.
00:14:05.240You'd think he'd be down on his knees every day thanking Allah for bringing him out of Syria and out of Saudi Arabia, two of the worst countries in the world, where protesting is illegal, by the way, and bringing him here to our great country.
00:14:16.600Instead, he clearly hates us, going by what he does.
00:14:21.940I don't know how his parents can be so nice and he be so foul, but the fact that they've hidden his true nature makes me doubt that they really did get the death threats they claim because the other things they're saying don't quite check out.
00:14:33.580But I notice in another news report that was not written by Trudeau CBC, do you see that here?
00:14:37.840The police say that the family didn't actually file a police report.
00:15:24.100He still has that hijab hoax tweet on his timeline, the one where he virtue signaled about that 11-year-old girl who claimed that her hijab was cut by a Chinese man on the street.
00:16:29.900Well, there is nothing that Justin Trudeau won't throw money at in this campaign.
00:16:47.120One of the most bizarre examples was his $2,000 camping tax credit that he'll pay you two grand to go pitch a tent.
00:16:58.720I didn't know you needed that kind of dough for that.
00:17:01.800But the one thing Justin Trudeau is cutting, the one thing, I challenge you to name another, is medical care for our armed forces.
00:17:13.740I know you think I'm making this up because it is impossible to be true, right?
00:17:19.700Well, I credit Mercedes Stevenson, who is a reporter with Global, and she's actually pretty well connected to the military and vets and serving military.
00:17:40.020Unlike civilians, the federal government has a special constitutional obligation to cover doctor's visits.
00:17:48.580So they pay doctors like, oh, I suppose, out-of-province insurers would pay you if you pay for your health care if you were in a different province.
00:17:59.720Justin Trudeau has decided this is the area he will cut of all areas.
00:18:05.980I can't even believe it, but it's the truth.
00:18:09.160And joining us now to talk about the shocking truth is our friend Lee Humphrey, who's the founder of James International Security and veterans for the Conservative Party.
00:18:20.940Have I properly summed up this story that basically the feds have one constitutional responsibility, and that is pay for the health care of soldiers?
00:18:37.140And as you alluded to, Mercedes scooped this story, and she does have a solid reputation within the veterans and military community for getting it right.
00:18:49.580I want to quote from her story, if I may, because I want to give the exact kind of detail that she has here.
00:18:56.200So, for example, where military bases are, obviously that's where soldiers and their families are.
00:19:00.560The Kingston Health Services Center, located near the base at Kingston, as well as the Royal Military College, estimates a shortfall of $2.3 million.
00:19:11.620As in, that's what the doctors charge, but the federal government has just said, yeah, you know what?
00:19:18.640We're going to pay you $2.3 million less.
00:19:22.480Pembroke Regional Hospital, located near the Canadian Forces base at Petawawa, projects a shortfall of $3.4 million.
00:19:29.500Now, I've got to tell you, $2.3 million plus $3.4 million, my math says that's $5.7 million, so that's about half of what Trudeau gave to Omar Khadr.
00:19:41.300So he gave Omar Khadr $10.5 million, and he's, I guess, taking it out of the hides of soldiers and their families.
00:19:48.840Yeah, there's some personal irony here for me.
00:19:53.160When I broke my back in a parachuting accident, I was actually medevaced initially to the Pembroke Hospital.
00:20:01.580So I received my initial care on the drop zone from Canadian Forces medics.
00:20:07.240But, you know, I think your viewers might like to understand where this came from, how this came about, and why the military doesn't treat its own soldiers and families like you see in the United States.
00:20:23.180I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it.
00:20:26.300Harjit Sajjan, I mean, I don't want to talk about the issue of stolen valor, him taking more credit than is due.
00:20:33.000Underneath it, I think he was a good man.
00:20:45.000I think Sikhs have a tremendous tradition of soldiering.
00:20:49.360I sort of liked the look of him when he became defense minister, and I thought, finally, you got a guy who knows what it's about in that job.
00:20:56.240I feel like he's been an advocate from the Liberal Party against soldiers.
00:21:02.460Instead of my hope coming true that he would be a true soldier's defense minister, it seems like all he does is give bad news to the troops.
00:21:11.540And listening to him now, he sounds like Trudeau.
00:21:13.700Yeah, unfortunately, when he was first elected and named as defense minister, several of my friends who are senior officers that served with him, that trained with him, that in a couple of cases deployed with him, said, you know, this is a good guy.
00:21:35.300And I think you can look at several older liberal cabinet ministers that were seen as, yeah, we had differences, but they had principles.
00:21:47.820They had a standing with the Canadian public.
00:21:51.220But they've had to defend Justin Trudeau and his decision-making process, whether it's his personal failings or whether it's his policy failings.
00:22:01.740And they've had to give up their principles or, as a friend told me the other day, they get JWR'd.
00:22:08.780In other words, they get Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:22:12.500I mean, she's now a goofy acronym about what happens to you if you stand up against this prime minister.
00:22:20.060So, you know, Sajin, putting aside, again, his embellishment of his personal service in Afghanistan, he gave up the moral authority and Vance joined him.
00:22:33.040General Vance, the chief of defense staff joined him, and they have made some of the most ridiculous decisions or supported them in the last couple of years that I've seen coming out, going back to the Khrushan years.
00:22:46.960You know what? I went to Ottawa to cover the trial of Vice Admiral Mark Norman, and the day I chose to go to Ottawa, coincidentally, was the day the Crown dropped the charges.
00:23:00.640And it was a most unusual, and I would put it, legally embarrassing dropping of the charges because the Crown clearly was tricked and misled by the government.
00:23:17.560But Vice Admiral Mark Norman was put through this whole sham trial, and I think the prosecutor was too much in collusion with the PMO.
00:23:27.400But finally, they did the right thing and let him go.
00:23:29.760I can only imagine the bunker mentality of the prime minister's office and the defense minister's office to agree to go to war against an honest soldier like that.
00:23:43.220But you've got to make your heart cold as ice to go to smear a good man and to take on real soldiers.
00:24:47.200I mean, in the late 90s, to save money, the forces were reduced massively in size and in budget.
00:24:54.440And one of the things they did was they farmed out health care and they limited the number of medical personnel in the military to those capable of deploying.
00:25:04.700They did the same thing in the combat arms.
00:25:09.140And one of the reasons they pay a higher fee to the out-of-province level was to ensure that the military had really good access to medical care in the civilian system.
00:25:22.740Because typically military people were coming in with complex issues.
00:25:27.140And the military needed those folks back as quickly as possible because literally they cut us down to the bone.
00:25:34.760And the minute you reduce those rates and we just become another person in the queue, you're not going to meet your deployment numbers.
00:25:46.680And so suddenly you have a hollowed out military again.
00:25:51.400But seriously, this is Justin Trudeau.
00:26:39.220You talk about cutting to the bone and hollowing out.
00:26:41.260I was shocked to learn that what I think, I mean, I'm not, look, I've never been a part of the military, but it seems to me that our Canadian version of the Top Gun flight training, called Maple Flag, where Allied Air Forces come and it's practicing.
00:27:00.680This is something that we've been doing in Canada for about 40 years, and it just seems not only so essential to keeping our pilots sharp, but in working alongside our allies.
00:27:12.400That was, if you're cutting our version of the Top Gun flight training school, where we were, I mean, if you're cutting that deep to the bone, I mean, then I guess it doesn't surprise me you're also cutting health care.
00:27:27.820Maybe we should have Trevor Noah, that comedian, come up and, you know, enlist in our armed forces.
00:27:33.220And maybe then Trudeau, maybe have a bunch of cool influencers.
00:27:44.980I mean, Mercedes Stevenson, give her credit, but I think the CBC, they sort of hate the military too.
00:27:50.760Yeah, it certainly hasn't hit the mainstream, if you will, in the two networks that have half-hour updates, CBC and CTV.
00:28:01.580And I have to admit, this election, whereas the last election, you know, there was a fight over whether veterans were being treated properly.
00:28:12.020There was a bit of a fight over the military.
00:28:14.060Other than Andrew Scheer doing one event where he rolled out his military slash veterans platform, it's not been a topic of conversation.
00:28:28.160Last election, I was doing media almost on a daily basis.
00:28:32.420This election, I missed a media request from you due to time zones, and I've got this one.
00:28:39.700Other than that, it's been really slim pickings.
00:28:42.280So, you know, I'm truly hoping, my tweet today about this was, you know, we're a tiny group, and without the public who claim to support their Canadian forces and veterans, we will not get movement on an issue like this.
00:28:58.120So, unless the Canadian public turns this into an issue and reaches out to their candidates and says, what about this, it's not going to be an issue.
00:29:24.180And St. John's, the whole province, certainly has a military history, was a real tradition, especially on the Navy side.
00:29:32.120So, there are parts of this country, Lee, that are liberal and military, like Halifax, St. John's, Ontario.
00:29:40.300I'd have to remember where the Esquimalt and other BC bases, what ridings they're on, but I bet there's liberals out there, too.
00:29:48.100So, you would think that the local MPs, just from dealing with military families, would have a dog in this fight.
00:29:57.100So, it's not just conservative places like Cold Lake or whatever.
00:30:01.640Are there any MPs in the Liberal Party, putting aside Harjit Sajjan, are there any MPs or candidates in the Liberals that you know of that have a reputation or a connection to the military?
00:30:12.520Anyone, anyone from some of these places I've just listed?
00:30:18.800Unfortunately, even the veterans that are still in the Liberal Party, of which there's seven or eight, downplay that and avoid those topics.
00:30:31.980Because at the end of the day, you know, this is a top-down government.
00:30:35.920This is a Trudeau-inspired government, and they all go along to get along with Trudeau to maintain their own power.
00:30:43.000So, the only person I saw willing to stand up for the military was retired General Leslie, who was...
00:30:55.900The only way he could stand up and stand, you know, on his principles were to announce that he was leaving politics.
00:31:04.220You know, I remember that, that was the interesting, same time I was at the court for Vice Admiral Norman, that's when Leslie made his move and said, I just can't stand by this anymore.
00:32:53.060And the theme of it, for those viewers who don't know it by now because I do it every year, is that everyone loves a soldier when we're in trouble.
00:33:03.880But the rest of the time, they're forgotten, they're thrown away.
00:33:46.680And I always choke up a little bit, frankly, with tears when I read that poem because that was written over 100 years ago and it's bloody well true today.
00:34:50.900We love our military and we support our veterans.
00:34:53.780He doesn't seem to give a crap about us.
00:34:56.600So there's lots of reasons to vote for another party, for somebody else to lead this country that will show respect to people of color, will show respect to women, and will show respect to our serving men and women and our veterans.
00:35:37.080Lee Humphrey, who's the founder of James International Security, and he also founded the group Veterans for the Conservative Party, telling it like it is, as he always does.