Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Exclusive Interview w MP Michael Barrett on Why Parliament Shut Down to Focus on Liberal Corruption

00:00:00.000 Hi, welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard.

00:00:04.200 I'm your host, David Creighton.

00:00:05.440 We are anticipating Michael Barrett,

00:00:09.140 the key conservative shadow minister for ethics and government accountability.

00:00:12.760 He's the member of parliament for Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands.

00:00:16.300 He should be joining us shortly.

00:00:19.880 We might have to show a clip in the meantime.

00:00:23.160 You know how these things are.

00:00:24.380 We'll be right back, though, with what promises to be a very exciting...

00:00:28.760 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.

00:00:33.020 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.

00:00:51.720 So, MP Michael Barrett is going to join us, and here he is now.

00:00:57.840 Well, good morning, Mr. Barrett.

00:01:00.220 It's so nice to have you on the show this morning.

00:01:02.120 Thank you so much for joining me.

00:01:03.860 Yeah, a pleasure. Thanks for having me on.

00:01:06.700 Well, a lot of Canadians and a lot of my viewers are extremely interested in what's going on right now,

00:01:12.940 today, in the House of Commons.

00:01:15.260 And it's been widely unreported by the mainstream media.

00:01:19.740 I can tell you I've seen maybe two or three credible accounts of what's going on.

00:01:24.320 And I wonder if you could just walk us through briefly, of course, what precipitated this

00:01:29.560 in terms of how bad is this sustainable development technology Canada,

00:01:36.740 otherwise known as the Green Slush Fund?

00:01:40.080 How bad is it in terms of wasting taxpayer dollars?

00:01:43.100 And if you could take us into Speaker Greg Fergus's ruling, I think it was September 26th,

00:01:49.240 where he said that these unredacted documents should be sent to the RCMP

00:01:55.040 because the House of Commons voted in favor of that.

00:02:00.060 Yeah, absolutely.

00:02:01.080 The real fine point on this is that Parliament is seized by liberal corruption right now.

00:02:09.440 So no government bills were debated for all of last week.

00:02:13.300 The same looks like it will be the case this week, unless that is, of course,

00:02:19.000 the Liberals hand over the documents in the scandal that you mentioned,

00:02:22.400 this billion-dollar Green Slush Fund, to the RCMP.

00:02:27.540 Now, the RCMP are going to have the opportunity to consider, as they would with any documents

00:02:31.060 that are turned over to them, whether or not they've launched an investigation.

00:02:33.560 But over the weekend, we learned that they have, in fact, started an investigation

00:02:39.620 and haven't received the unredacted documents that are at the heart of this scandal.

00:02:47.340 The last, you know, conservatives have been spending this last session,

00:02:53.060 you know, prior to coming back in September,

00:02:54.900 really trying to peel back this Sustainable Development Technology Canada mess.

00:03:00.120 This fund has been around since the early 2000s.

00:03:04.000 And under conservatives, it received a clean bill of health from Canada's Auditor General in 2017.

00:03:10.520 But after the Liberals got into it, they handpicked a chair, a Liberal-friendly chair.

00:03:16.060 They stacked the board.

00:03:18.820 And then the conflicts of interest started rolling,

00:03:21.720 where we see that this is tens of millions of dollars being handed out inappropriately.

00:03:27.900 It's a $400 million scandal, essentially, with well over, you know, 180 conflicts

00:03:35.780 at the heart of these funds being misappropriated, allocated outside of the contribution agreement.

00:03:43.580 Now, to give a really clear example, the chair of the board voted on a motion

00:03:49.220 to give her own company tens of thousands of dollars in a single instance, 0.86

00:03:54.040 and then did it again and was found, of course, to have broken the Conflict of Interest Act

00:04:00.060 by Canada's Ethics Commissioner, a majority of members in the House of Commons

00:04:04.480 passed a motion that the government hand over all of the unredacted documents to the RCMP.

00:04:11.420 And the Liberals have refused.

00:04:13.640 They've defied a lawful order of Canada's Parliament,

00:04:17.000 an order made by the majority of democratically elected members in the House.

00:04:22.840 This is, it's not surprising from Justin Trudeau,

00:04:26.740 someone who himself has twice been convicted of breaking Canada's ethics laws,

00:04:31.640 along with some of his front bench ministerial counterparts.

00:04:36.560 But it is, of course, something that should be causing Canadians great trouble,

00:04:42.480 because this is the supreme authority in Canada is, you know, is the people.

00:04:50.960 We elect our representatives.

00:04:53.580 We elect our Parliament.

00:04:55.360 And when you have a majority of those members make a decision to exercise their authority lawfully,

00:05:00.780 and in a case like this, to produce documents that go to the heart of a scandal involving the Liberal government,

00:05:09.300 some people will remember the sponsorship scandal in the early 2000s that brought down the then Liberal government.

00:05:15.980 Well, one of the senior Trudeau government officials who was caught on an audio recording

00:05:23.460 by one of the whistleblowers in this billion-dollar green slush fund,

00:05:26.860 he referred to this, one of the Trudeau officials referred to this as a sponsorship type of scandal.

00:05:35.140 So that's how big this is.

00:05:36.800 They know how bad it is.

00:05:38.420 And we had to drag them kicking and screaming to get some accountability at that organization.

00:05:44.340 And now they want to do everything they can to cover up what they knew,

00:05:48.880 when they knew it, and how they helped their friends, insiders, get rich.

00:05:53.120 So, Speaker Greg Fergus, and this shocked me, I must be frank about this,

00:05:59.800 when he decided he ruled in your favor, he ruled with the House of Commons,

00:06:05.020 he said the business of the government needs to stop so we can look.

00:06:10.020 Essentially, he didn't say it this way, but really what he said was the House needs to look

00:06:15.060 and contemplate the Trudeau government's corruption.

00:06:18.320 We need to stop and look at these files and see what's going on.

00:06:24.000 And since that decision has been made, there has been no regular business going on in the House of Commons.

00:06:30.460 Now, you also mentioned, in terms of what needs to be examined here as government corruption,

00:06:38.060 you specifically talked about, and I should mention,

00:06:40.740 you are the shadow cabinet for ethics and government accountability.

00:06:45.580 This is your responsibility, and you have the lead on this file.

00:06:52.380 But in the House, you also brought up this incredible situation,

00:06:57.680 which I've also talked about on this show and in writing in the past,

00:07:03.360 about Employment Minister Randy Boissoneau, the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre,

00:07:09.540 who apparently seemed to be not only a cabinet minister but working for his lobby firm at the same time.

00:07:17.140 Now, he has avoided any sort of real scrutiny over this.

00:07:23.740 He continues to distract, to deflect whenever it's mentioned.

00:07:28.600 It's a personal thing.

00:07:29.900 He's personally being persecuted.

00:07:31.580 Poor Randy.

00:07:32.100 Do you think this is another element that we need to consider very carefully?

00:07:38.460 What was going on?

00:07:39.720 We've heard about the other Randy, his business partner who was clearly lying to committee,

00:07:45.080 when he said, oh, yeah, the other Randy was this other guy working there,

00:07:49.000 but I can't tell you who that was.

00:07:51.120 Is this another element to this story that needs to be carefully examined?

00:07:54.320 Well, this is another extraordinary element of an extraordinary situation.

00:08:00.680 So not only has the business of the House of Commons following Speaker Fergus's ruling

00:08:04.520 ground to a halt while we deal with liberal corruption,

00:08:09.120 the Speaker ruled on another question that I had put to him.

00:08:13.320 And he has ruled in our favour, saying that there is what's called a prima facie case of privilege,

00:08:18.700 that Randy Boissoneau's business partner, you know, he lied, he prevaricated,

00:08:24.940 he didn't deliver documents that were lawfully ordered by a parliamentary committee.

00:08:29.460 And so as soon as, so should the government turn over their green slush fund documents,

00:08:34.840 you know, to turn our attention back to that for just a second,

00:08:37.420 if they did that right now, well, that's exactly what we're looking for.

00:08:41.340 But then the House commences debate on this issue dealing with

00:08:46.100 Justin Trudeau's minister from Edmonton Centre, Randy Boissoneau,

00:08:50.240 and this situation where he's directing his business from the cabinet table, allegedly,

00:08:57.820 and this has been reported in media, the situation that kind of came to a head

00:09:04.080 when there was this question of this $500,000 payment,

00:09:07.460 that's the centre of a fraud allegation in this business that he owned a 50% share in

00:09:12.760 with his business partner, Stephen Anderson.

00:09:14.480 Now, Randy Boissoneau came to committee, his business partner came to committee,

00:09:18.660 and they said they didn't talk for all of 2022.

00:09:21.800 But the, we ordered, the committee ordered the production of phone records,

00:09:27.160 we ordered the production of text messages,

00:09:29.660 and in that first order, Randy Boissoneau didn't produce all of the information that was requested.

00:09:35.340 We had to go back and get it again, and then he produced a different set of,

00:09:39.060 or a supplemental offering to the ethics commissioner.

00:09:46.860 And through these multiple disclosures, we learned that he had, in fact, been talking to this business partner

00:09:52.760 when he said he hadn't talked to him for that full year.

00:09:54.740 There was a text message exchange, there was a phone call,

00:09:57.320 and it was exactly the same time that this business partner of his was talking about Randy,

00:10:03.100 nine times in these text messages, said it was an autocorrect, said it was a different Randy,

00:10:06.960 but there was only one partner.

00:10:08.380 And the problem is that the allegation that's been made in some media is that if Randy Boissoneau is the Randy

00:10:17.820 that's in these text messages, well, that would mean that he was directing the operation of a business

00:10:22.760 that, in fact, went on to win federal government contract from Elections Canada

00:10:27.780 while he was serving in cabinet, which, of course, is not permitted.

00:10:32.800 You can't do that as a cabinet minister.

00:10:35.000 And we haven't been able to get the truth.

00:10:40.360 We haven't been able to get the truth from Randy Boissoneau or from his business partner.

00:10:45.740 So this is the next issue that will seize the House.

00:10:48.760 Again, liberal corruption preventing any government business from going forward.

00:10:53.020 Now, the Liberals want to talk about Conservatives obstructing the House.

00:10:56.220 We're simply exposing the mess that Canadians are, frankly, living with

00:11:01.960 after nine years of an NDP liberal government that is so interested in just helping insiders,

00:11:07.600 helping their friends, helping their business partners, that they can't even get out of their own way

00:11:12.200 to help Canadians who can barely afford to feed themselves.

00:11:17.300 There's been a Teflon factor attached to Justin Trudeau and his government.

00:11:21.820 He went through the SNC-Lavalin scandal by essentially throwing ministers under the bus,

00:11:28.280 female ministries, mind you, which, of course, he's always supposedly defending the most. 0.78

00:11:33.280 He got through the WE scandal.

00:11:34.640 He got through he's gotten through personal scandals that would have brought anybody down,

00:11:38.960 like the blackface scandal.

00:11:40.420 He walked through that one.

00:11:41.840 Do you think this is the moment in time that's going to bring down Justin Trudeau and this corrupt

00:11:47.140 liberal government?

00:11:47.860 Look, we've put forward two confidence motions or motions of expressing our lack of confidence

00:11:56.220 in the Trudeau government, and they received support propping Justin Trudeau up from the

00:12:01.620 Bloc Québécois and from the NDP.

00:12:04.360 But I think that the weight of this is really starting to be felt by Canadians when you look

00:12:11.440 at what exactly happened in this case.

00:12:14.440 And it was at a time when Canadians were lining up at food banks in record numbers.

00:12:20.440 These liberal insiders were getting it's beyond sweetheart deals.

00:12:25.000 They they were they were being given funds, taxpayer funds that they weren't entitled to,

00:12:32.480 that it was inappropriate for them to receive.

00:12:34.860 That's being investigated by the RCMP.

00:12:37.020 So there's there's now alleged criminality that's that's at play here.

00:12:42.340 And it shouldn't have to come to this for Canadians to change their government, that there's

00:12:47.020 allegations of, you know, of criminal wrongdoing.

00:12:50.320 But this might be what it has to take, because it seems like after nine years, you know, you

00:12:57.140 listed off a litany of scandals.

00:12:58.760 And and and any one of those is enough to make us, you know, embarrassed on the world

00:13:04.120 stage.

00:13:05.080 But I think that, you know, conservatives are going to continue to put the pressure on and

00:13:10.180 we're going to continue to demand these documents, because at the end of the day, Canadians need

00:13:14.700 to have confidence in their democratic institutions.

00:13:16.900 And that's so sorely lacking after Justin Trudeau and and his NDP government have been, you know,

00:13:24.480 have been getting away with what they have.

00:13:26.860 Well, the bloc seems to be wavering now in terms of any support they have for the Trudeau

00:13:33.160 government, the NDP.

00:13:34.980 It depends whether it's Tuesday or Wednesday, but I could certainly see the NDP coming around

00:13:39.600 to a non-conf supporting a non-confidence vote.

00:13:42.560 And I and I really think Justin Trudeau might be waking up to that reality, too.

00:13:46.840 Do you think the we're hearing a lot about him proroguing parliament?

00:13:51.760 It hasn't happened in a while.

00:13:53.560 It's always a controversial thing to do.

00:13:55.220 Do you think that's that's a desperation option he might actually try right now?

00:14:00.540 Well, it's interesting because the last time Justin Trudeau prorogued parliament, there

00:14:05.400 was another scandal, one that you mentioned, and that was the we scandal.

00:14:08.480 And the committee that I was sitting on at the time, serving as the shadow minister for

00:14:12.660 ethics and accountable government then as well.

00:14:14.480 Uh, we had demanded the production of documents, uh, that, um, that spoke to the fees that had

00:14:21.120 been paid to Justin Trudeau's mother and his brother, uh, for speaking at events for, for

00:14:27.440 the we charity.

00:14:28.140 Uh, and in order to kill a, an order of the house at that time, the production of those

00:14:35.360 documents, he was able to prorogue and that wiped the slate clean.

00:14:40.300 Now, if Justin Trudeau, uh, wanted to do that before the 2021 election, while he triggered

00:14:46.740 an election, and that of course killed the order for the production of the Winnipeg lab

00:14:51.640 documents.

00:14:52.220 And now when we're looking for documents into, uh, into this billion dollar green slush fund

00:14:59.840 with, uh, conflicts of interest that have been uncovered and, and, and adjudicated, ruled

00:15:06.040 on by the conflict of interest commissioner, uh, the evidence is much of it is in the public

00:15:10.840 domain, but now we need these redacted documents to go to the RCMP.

00:15:14.200 Suddenly there's talk about him proroguing parliament again, because what happens that order of the

00:15:18.960 house of commons would be wiped away with him proroguing.

00:15:21.740 So it, it seems to be, uh, every time Justin Trudeau gets, uh, gets himself into hot water

00:15:28.100 over the last couple of years, he pulls the fire alarm.

00:15:31.380 He did it with weed charity.

00:15:32.400 He did it with the Winnipeg lab documents.

00:15:34.400 And now we're hearing rumors that he's considering it again, but you know, look, if it's an attempt

00:15:39.540 to discourage us from continuing to litigate these issues, um, he's, he's read us all wrong

00:15:45.240 because we're unwavering in our commitment to get accountability.

00:15:47.780 Well, and that certainly seems to be the case.

00:15:52.380 I, I guess there's a, some silver lining to proroguing because there are some horrible

00:15:57.680 pieces of legislation in front of parliament right now that could likely pass with the

00:16:02.940 support of the bloc and the NDP.

00:16:04.320 I'm thinking of the online harms act.

00:16:06.180 I'm thinking of bill C 293.

00:16:08.260 There's others, uh, there's private members bill from, uh, Charlie Angus that's going

00:16:13.680 to absolutely criminalize any promotion of the oil and gas industry, fossil fuel industry.

00:16:19.940 So a lot of, a lot of folks are saying, well, at least we'll, we'll see this legislation

00:16:24.540 die.

00:16:25.040 Final question for you.

00:16:26.320 And I really, really thank you for your, for your time today, Michael is why can't,

00:16:32.320 why does the government house leader, who I really have no time for ever since she posed 1.00

00:16:38.480 happily with a picture of a former Boffin SS soldier who she invited to the house of commons.

00:16:43.020 But Karina Gould has said on numerous occasions that when the house of commons examines liberal

00:16:51.040 corruption, it's somehow a violation of Canadians charter of rights.

00:16:56.680 Go figure.

00:16:57.880 What, how does she possibly make that statement? 0.97

00:17:00.300 No, this is a, this is, uh, absolute desperation from a government, a liberal government that's

00:17:06.620 completely out of gas.

00:17:07.920 Um, they believe that the charter's there to protect, uh, liberals from, uh, accountability

00:17:13.720 for their, for their own corruption.

00:17:15.820 But really, um, the, the charter could be more accurately or, or more appropriately described

00:17:22.380 as being there to, uh, protect, uh, Canadians, um, from a corrupt government, not to protect

00:17:28.600 a corrupt government from, from the accountability that Canadians would bring to bear on it.

00:17:32.380 So they can twist themselves into all kinds of pretzels to try and scare Canadians. 0.96

00:17:36.600 Um, but this, uh, this isn't something that conservatives cooked up.

00:17:40.660 This was a majority of the house who, who voted on this motion for documents about liberal

00:17:45.680 corruption to be turned over to the RCMP for their consideration.

00:17:48.460 It received, uh, you know, received majority support in the house and, uh, and then was,

00:17:53.360 was ruled on by a liberal speaker.

00:17:55.440 You know, the, the, the speaker of the house of commons is, is an elected liberal.

00:17:59.720 He's a member of the liberal party, uh, Greg Fergus.

00:18:02.580 And so, um, this, this is, we, we followed this, uh, straight down the middle.

00:18:08.680 Of course, uh, conservatives are a party of, uh, the rule of law and defense of, of Canadians

00:18:15.300 rights and Canadians freedoms.

00:18:17.040 And, you know, Canadians also have a right to be free from a corrupt government.

00:18:21.460 And that's why we're pursuing this.

00:18:23.160 Even if Ms. Gould wants to use misinformation to, to try and scare Canadians. 1.00

00:18:28.640 Well, I think these are very historic times and I would encourage everybody in the mainstream

00:18:34.880 media to at least start reporting on them because we've never been here before.

00:18:39.440 And I think we're on the precipice of at least seeing this government fall very justifiably.

00:18:45.960 So thank you for your hard work on this file, uh, Michael.

00:18:48.880 And I think a lot of people are watching and waiting to see some justice finally after nine

00:18:55.480 years of this liberal government.

00:18:56.660 It has been hard going at times to watch this kind of corruption coexist.

00:19:03.220 Well, David, thank you for sharing this story with Canadians.

00:19:05.140 As you said, you don't see the coverage that it should get in, uh, in some of the, uh,

00:19:09.160 in some of the media, the subsidized media.

00:19:11.360 So, um, so thank you for sharing this with Canadians.

00:19:13.500 It's incredibly important.

00:19:14.500 They know what's going on.

00:19:16.060 Thank you.

00:19:16.800 Godspeed and keep up the good work, Michael.

00:19:18.940 We'll talk again.

00:19:20.160 Thanks for the time.

00:19:23.260 So that was Michael Barrett, MP for Leeds Granville Thousand Islands.

00:19:28.440 He's also the conservative shadow cabinet minister of ethics and government accountability.

00:19:34.520 Now you heard it.

00:19:36.240 We are on the verge of the government falling.

00:19:40.580 And I think these are historic and exciting times.

00:19:44.160 And it was such a pleasure to hear a note of hope this morning that one way or the other,

00:19:50.220 we're going to see this horrible legislation from the liberal government fail.

00:19:54.580 Not before in the time we have left.

00:19:56.500 I want to show you what did Justin Trudeau say the last time he prorogued parliament?

00:20:00.960 Because this could happen.

00:20:01.660 You wouldn't use prorogation as a political tactic.

00:20:04.660 There are several committees investigating you right now, and those efforts will be shut

00:20:08.020 down as a result of your move today.

00:20:10.280 How can you have said that in 2015 and do this now?

00:20:14.240 Stephen Harper and the conservatives prorogued parliament in order to shut it down and avoid

00:20:21.280 a confidence vote.

00:20:22.280 We are proroguing parliament to bring it back on exactly the same week it was supposed to

00:20:29.080 come back anyway and force a confidence vote.

00:20:32.740 We are taking a moment to recognize that the throne speech we delivered eight months ago had

00:20:39.720 no mention of COVID-19, had no conception of the reality we find ourselves in right now.

00:20:46.940 We need to reset the approach of this government for a recovery to build back better and those

00:20:53.840 are big important decisions and we need to present that to parliament and gain the confidence

00:21:00.000 of parliament to move forward on this ambitious plan.

00:21:03.640 The prorogation we are doing right now is about gaining or testing the confidence of the

00:21:09.360 house which is the opposite of what the conservatives did that we rightly railed against back in 2015.

00:21:16.940 Yeah, it's always right when Justin Trudeau says it's right.

00:21:21.660 That's the mark of an authoritarian state.

00:21:23.660 It's the mark of a dictator.

00:21:24.700 That's what Justin Trudeau is.

00:21:26.000 But thank God we've got some action here.

00:21:28.180 And it's nice to see an official opposition that's not being a lapdog that's actually out

00:21:33.820 there doing something.

00:21:34.500 And I applaud the work you're doing here because this is incredibly important to keep any government

00:21:41.340 accountable to the people.

00:21:43.340 And I want to end today on a comedic note.

00:21:45.800 And as I said, I've got no time for Karina, for Karine Gould. 0.65

00:21:51.840 She is, she is a, a laughingstock. 0.99

00:21:55.820 This is a woman who suggested after she made, had a photo op with a former Vafin SS soldier,

00:22:04.060 Yaroslav Hanka, whom she had a role in inviting to attend a joint session of parliament with the

00:22:14.940 president of Ukraine speaking.

00:22:18.400 He sat in visitors gallery, had two standing ovations. 0.99

00:22:21.020 And Karine Gould said, after she realized how stupid she was in facilitating that, not 0.98

00:22:27.600 knowing who this guy was, she said, let's excise it all from the official record. 0.99

00:22:32.880 Let's censor, hand-sert, like it never happened.

00:22:35.480 So here she is talking about how examining liberal corruption is somehow a violation of

00:22:42.580 your charter rights.

00:22:43.340 I want to switch gears before I let you go and ask, ask about another part of your portfolio as

00:22:49.380 government house leader, which is kind of what's happening in parliament right now.

00:22:52.560 It's pretty complicated.

00:22:53.760 I'm not sure everyone is paying super close attention, but there's essentially an order that the, that the

00:22:59.260 house voted on for your government to hand over documents, which would then go to the RCMP.

00:23:05.140 The documents involve what's known as the Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

00:23:09.780 It was an arm's length foundation.

00:23:11.420 The auditor general found a huge host of issues with it.

00:23:14.000 It has since folded and become part of something else.

00:23:17.300 The conservatives are saying essentially that your refusal to comply with this order is because you have

00:23:23.620 something to hide in those documents.

00:23:26.160 I know that you have contended and pointed to comments from the RCMP that they wouldn't necessarily

00:23:31.300 even be able to access those documents as part of the reason why you oppose handing them over.

00:23:36.520 Can you be clear with Canadians?

00:23:38.040 Does your government have anything in these documents to hide?

00:23:42.140 Look, the, the point of all of this is that the conservatives are using their extraordinary powers

00:23:50.060 in parliament to try to go around the charter protected rights of Canadians.

00:23:56.540 This is the very first time it's unprecedented that parliamentarians are using their extraordinary

00:24:03.060 powers to access documents, not for themselves, but to hand over to a third party.

00:24:09.920 And what the speaker actually ruled was that yes, parliament has the power to do this, but he said

00:24:16.880 very clearly that he wanted this referred to a house committee to actually study this because it's

00:24:23.700 so unprecedented and it has the potential to violate the rights of Canadians.

00:24:29.040 And so the conservatives right now are actually obstructing their own obstruction in the house

00:24:35.220 because they don't want this to go to committee because if it goes to committee, there'll be a

00:24:39.620 whole wide range of experts that come out and say, this is an abuse of power, that parliament

00:24:44.160 shouldn't do this, even if they have the right to do it.

00:24:47.040 And both the RCMP and the auditor general boast raised their extreme discomfort with this because

00:24:54.040 it compromises the really important independence of the police from the legislature.

00:24:58.680 And it compromises the independence of the auditor general, who's an independent agent of parliament.

00:25:04.260 And even more than that, it potentially violates the charter rights of Canadians because anytime

00:25:10.000 police want to access documents, they have to seek judicial oversight in order to suspend the

00:25:16.960 rights of Canadians.

00:25:18.400 And let's be very clear that the government did hand over documents, but they were redacted

00:25:23.240 because the government also...

00:25:24.400 You tell me, when did the Trudeau government have any such sanction when it froze bank accounts?

00:25:35.280 When did the Trudeau government have any such sanction when it invoked the Emergencies Act? 1.00

00:25:39.880 But she is full of crap. 0.99

00:25:44.820 This is a complete non-argument. 1.00

00:25:47.160 It makes no sense.

00:25:49.280 And it's just liberal blather at its worst.

00:25:53.320 Your rights are not violated because the House of Commons is examining liberal corruption.

00:26:01.600 This woman isn't thinking clearly. 1.00

00:26:04.240 She also has an obligation to protect the rights of Canadians.

00:26:09.040 And that is something that, you know, I would hope that even if the Conservatives were in power

00:26:14.080 and this situation was reversed, that they...

00:26:16.680 Well, the Conservatives will be in power within a year.

00:26:20.160 There's no question about that, Karina.

00:26:22.600 But it's incredible how you would misinform people about this.

00:26:31.040 Your government had no legal right to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy supporters.

00:26:39.220 It produced no warrant to do so.

00:26:43.280 It produced nothing except the whim of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:26:49.820 That's all it, that's all that said it needed.

00:26:53.260 So this is nonsense.

00:26:55.060 Thanks for watching today, folks.

00:26:57.060 This was a really good discussion we had with Member of Parliament, Michael Barrett.

00:27:03.340 We're going to have other MPs on the show, and we're here to give you all the news you need to know

00:27:09.900 so that you can continue to resolve to resist.

00:27:12.580 And I hope this left you today with a sense of optimism that the end is near for the Liberal government.

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - October 07, 2024

Exclusive Interview w MP Michael Barrett on Why Parliament Shut Down to Focus on Liberal Corruption

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