Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Former Liberal Whip Stuns Trudeau By Advising Poilievre ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 130

00:00:00.000 and welcome back to another episode of stand on guard this is a live one so thanks for joining

00:00:08.040 me i promised you we'd have some fun with the house of commons not sitting and i meant it so

00:00:14.700 we'll be back in a minute to discuss what is the trudeau government doing for national defense and

00:00:21.200 how one of his chief defense advisors has jumped ship so we are in a very precarious position in

00:00:29.440 this country we need political change but we also need to resolve to resist

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00:01:30.640 i'm trying to get a number of interviews done this week i haven't been very successful

00:01:36.440 are in getting them ready for this week probably be for next week but i'm looking forward to talking to

00:01:43.720 a number of conservative conservative mps on some vital issues and i think it's very important we

00:01:49.920 continue to do the interviews and talk to these decision makers but i'm very very interested in

00:01:58.820 a story this week that i first saw in the national post and let's have a look at that here uh this is

00:02:05.420 retired lieutenant general andrew leslie and he says our nato allies are despairing

00:02:11.580 retired general says trudeau government failing on defense now there's another column by john

00:02:17.980 iverson about that another warning about trudeau from yet another former liberal insider

00:02:23.340 now to get back to this article here which i found particularly interesting it was frank

00:02:31.840 and i'm going to read some portions of it and then explain

00:02:36.040 what is wrong with the general's argument not all of it but there is a substantial fault in the

00:02:43.000 general's argument and why national defense in canada especially under the liberals but even

00:02:49.440 under the conservatives is fated to always fall short of any objectives it sets out to achieve

00:02:58.420 but i did want to read a few lines from this because for those of you who don't know who this general

00:03:05.800 leslie is he was an ottawa area mp after in 2015 he was defeated the second time around in trudeau's

00:03:14.080 tenure he expected to be the minister of national defense in 2015 very much expected it this is a former

00:03:23.740 chief of staff of the army he was a lieutenant general we don't have a lot of those in canada

00:03:30.000 lots of major generals brigadier generals but not a lot of lieutenant general this is the commander of

00:03:36.240 the army commander of the air force level the vice chief of defense staff very very high level senior

00:03:42.980 general officer and he expected to be defense minister not just because he was coming in with 35 years of

00:03:50.920 military experience and as a lieutenant general but because he had two grandfathers who were defense

00:03:58.380 ministers andy mcnaughton his paternal grandfather during the second world war under prime minister

00:04:06.020 mackenzie king mcnaughton was also a war hero in the first world war and he wrote extensively about

00:04:12.180 his experiences in the artillery his other grandfather's maternal grandfather who

00:04:20.140 brooke claxton i had to remind myself his first name was also defense minister under prime minister

00:04:29.040 mackenzie king and prime minister louis saint laurent who actually was a huge booster of national defense

00:04:34.760 these were the days when the liberals really believed in bolstering our national defense and they were

00:04:40.940 very committed anti-communists that's when nato had an objective that was clear and concise and

00:04:47.760 understandable containing world communism specifically the soviet union in the eastern bloc and not going

00:04:55.120 any further that was the objective the raison d'etre of nato in those days and it made perfect sense

00:04:59.880 and the liberal government the liberal party was very much behind that in those days you know we're

00:05:05.080 talking the 1950s here not justin trudeau or not certainly not even pierre trudeau who began to be

00:05:13.300 hostile towards the national defense because he saw it as something he just could not understand

00:05:20.120 and that was clear throughout his entire career i want to just read a couple of comments from this

00:05:25.440 national post interview with leslie who like i say was not happy when trudeau did not make him

00:05:34.500 defense minister and instead made him the house whip which is not a very nice position to have because

00:05:41.740 that's the guy in the government or opposition parties that forces people to show up for votes

00:05:49.740 i mean and they get heavy-handed about it and forces members to vote along party lines

00:05:57.840 90 95 percent of the time when there are not free votes make make that 99 percent of the time

00:06:04.520 when there are not free votes so the government whip is not a popular position any more than the

00:06:09.600 opposition official opposition whip is a popular position andrew leslie was not happy there but now

00:06:14.940 he's become a staunch critic of justin trudeau and his defense policy so interesting if he was not

00:06:21.880 somebody with fairly good credentials i would say who cares but i think we should care and he says

00:06:28.120 the current prime minister of canada is not serious about defense well duh full stop a large number of

00:06:34.940 his cabinet members are not serious about defense full stop this is what leslie told the national

00:06:41.220 post our nato allies are despairing our american friends are frustrated well yeah no kidding because

00:06:46.460 we've never pulled our weight in terms of defense spending since the mid-1960s

00:06:53.900 and he says but because nato and norad which of course we all know north american aerospace defense

00:07:00.320 command are both essentially voluntary organizations in which other people cannot give canada orders

00:07:06.700 the retired general explained all the officers are extraordinary polite in public but in private the

00:07:14.000 conversations are quite brutal very true i have some acquaintance with norad much more acquaintance

00:07:20.620 with nato and publicly a lot of things are said privately a lot of things are said that are never said

00:07:28.260 publicly but i want to get back i want to get back to his uh realization here that trudeau is not

00:07:38.460 defending canada he doesn't quite say it but if you read between the lines in this interview

00:07:45.040 he's suggesting that trudeau is defending the globalists it's not canada not canadian sovereignty

00:07:53.400 and this is interesting because he says he's talking to peer poly of team about defense strategy

00:08:03.900 and he finds them receptive aware and focused and he adds you can quote me on that well i i am quoting

00:08:12.420 him on that and that's that's very interesting so that is what leslie is saying so where is leslie

00:08:19.340 wrong well i looked up some of his past clips since he left the government the trudeau government he's

00:08:29.960 been free to speak and yes he's been critical of trudeau's defense spending and defense policies

00:08:36.960 but he hasn't been critical of trudeau's commitment to ukraine and that is a commitment to ukraine that

00:08:44.140 is shared by the official opposition conservatives i've mentioned this on several different occasions

00:08:49.440 the conservatives are as just as committed to bailing out ukraine with billions tens of billions of

00:08:55.940 dollars of your tax money as the liberals are and for that matter the ndp so he's not recognizing

00:09:05.280 that ukraine is a fundamental flaw in the defense policy of not only the liberals but the conservatives

00:09:14.260 we cannot keep sending billions of dollars to ukraine into this black hole of kiev where it's going to 0.98

00:09:21.920 disappear especially since we're spending it on nonsensical things like gender equity demining

00:09:28.280 and and so on and so on and so on and especially since we now know a lot of this money never even

00:09:36.060 went into defending ukraine it's gone into the pockets of oligarchs and corrupt politicians many of

00:09:42.900 whom have fled the country with the money or it's in swiss bank accounts zelinski's time is limited

00:09:49.480 whether or not he's knocked off by his own people or whether he is allowed to flee the country for a

00:09:56.860 villa in other parts of the world i don't know that's going on right now but the the time it's

00:10:05.080 going to take to defeat ukraine is is very very limited this of course is upping the ante on nato 0.69

00:10:12.180 as to whether they want to directly intervene with armed forces on the ground and that's being discussed

00:10:18.500 if that happens it's going to be a war it's going to be third world war with russia and that's 0.50

00:10:24.480 inevitably going to escalate to a nuclear war those are the facts i don't want to get sidetracked on that

00:10:33.100 right now but you know i've said this previously we're headed for nuclear war if nato puts boots on

00:10:38.080 the ground and nato seems to think that's the only way out of this disaster that they created

00:10:44.100 when ukraine falls when zelinski falls they have invested so-called so much money they've wasted

00:10:53.600 not let's not use that word invested that is such a government bureaucraties they have wasted

00:11:00.040 with profligate spending billions of dollars on a fight they cannot win on money that's being stolen

00:11:07.420 by corrupt politicians on money they'll never see again and andrew leslie's talking about canada

00:11:14.800 being undefended one of the reasons we're undefended is that we denuded our military to send it to ukraine

00:11:22.100 we have cannibalized our own military to send the parts and to send the equipment to ukraine

00:11:29.240 including our leopard tanks god knows how many leopard tanks we actually have left

00:11:33.800 but i tell you the ones we sent to ukraine are gone they have been blown up on the battlefield

00:11:41.120 by the russians we're not going to see them again we're not going to see any of the equipment we

00:11:45.920 lent or gave to ukraine again it's gone destroyed or it will be captured by the russians if there's

00:11:54.080 anything left so that's the situation we're in today so leslie is still saying yes yes support

00:12:01.540 ukraine until the bitter end the bitter end is coming very very soon but it's not the end that

00:12:07.400 trudeau and or for that matter the conservative party was envisioning it's a very different end

00:12:13.420 it's going to be the end of zelinski and ukraine as we know it and all that money will have been

00:12:20.560 wasted it's gone and we intervene in a conflict we never really understood or wanted to understand

00:12:28.460 it was all about saving democracy when ukraine is not really a good democracy they canceled their

00:12:33.960 presidential election they're a corrupt country the most corrupt country in europe

00:12:39.400 so having said that leslie doesn't quite grasp that he's not prepared to say we got to stop

00:12:48.260 supporting ukraine we got to stop being these toadies who say we're with you till the end because

00:12:54.440 you know we yeah we were with them till the end but it's not the end we envisioned now why does

00:13:01.220 national defense never get the money they're promised now here's a story from cbc which i think is

00:13:08.060 interesting i've written about this extensively over the years for the various media outlets i've

00:13:13.320 worked for and i couldn't find the one column i was looking for that i wrote several years ago with

00:13:19.840 this very thing i always described the capital acquisition process in other words buying equipment

00:13:25.400 as i as the huge shell game what the government of the day will do and the conservatives have done

00:13:33.160 this as much as the liberals is that they'll take money from one shell put it to another and say ah

00:13:39.820 we're upping defense spending not telling you that they're taking money away from another sector of

00:13:46.800 defense over here in order to escalate defense spending in this area they do it all the time 0.96

00:13:54.140 but what else do they do now here's bill blair i still call him the open borders minister because

00:14:01.800 he was he had that position so in in the previous trudeau government to supposedly protect our borders

00:14:10.560 from illegals coming through all he did was open the borders and embrace illegals he's been a lousy 0.96

00:14:17.560 defense minister too and of course here he is saying admitting we're not going to be anywhere near this

00:14:23.080 two percent of the gdp of defense spending that nato has been asking for for years and of course to tell

00:14:30.100 you the truth i don't even want to reach that target anymore because nato is a lost cause nato

00:14:37.780 stays our numbers nato will not survive beyond the next two years

00:14:43.860 and it's not necessarily directly a result of the war in ukraine it's a direct result of bad policy

00:14:53.900 for the last 15 to 20 years where they have been an organization constantly expanding never thinking

00:15:01.760 of why they want to expand and the ramifications that expansion has for world peace the more members

00:15:09.840 that belong to nato the greater likelihood there will be a european war that will quickly escalate

00:15:15.460 into a world war that's a fact of life we do not need nato comprising 35 40 member nations it's ridiculous 0.97

00:15:23.120 it becomes a club of fools a group of knaves it becomes a bunch of people without a coherent defense 0.95

00:15:30.520 objective and that's what nato has become it needs to be disbanded the longer it stays in existence 0.98

00:15:36.200 the greater likelihood we're going to have war with russia because that's what it's geared towards now 1.00

00:15:41.220 not containing communism russia is no longer communist russia has no ambition to take over france

00:15:49.040 it ceased to have a military objective when it started expanding beyond the old nato frontiers now

00:15:58.720 it's on the border of russia and of course it's seen as a as a direct violation of our intentions our

00:16:07.480 peaceful intentions

00:16:08.400 so why doesn't the military ever get the money the government's promising

00:16:16.100 i'll tell you why now here's bill blair admitting we're going to be short

00:16:22.900 but he also said the federal government's new national defense strategy which was released

00:16:28.300 last month in april pledged an increase in military spending of 8.1 billion over the next five years

00:16:35.480 all right that's the key right there defense spending in canada is always based on a five-year plan

00:16:45.400 it's always based on sometimes even longer sometimes a seven to ten year plan so we're we're promising the

00:16:52.480 military it's going to get that money well in five years maybe but a lot can happen in five years

00:16:58.940 can't it

00:16:59.440 objectives can change budget directives can change the amount of money coming in can change

00:17:07.880 the amount of money being spent on other projects can change governments can change

00:17:12.700 so how can any government in 2024 promise you're going to be getting this money in five years

00:17:18.860 when they have absolutely no control over that process or that promise

00:17:25.560 there's no bloody way in hell any government can say we're going to deliver on defense spending in

00:17:32.620 five years time because governments constantly change their objectives constantly change their

00:17:38.620 commitments especially national defense because it comes dead last for a lot of people in the cabinet

00:17:45.240 we can always sacrifice national defense on the altar of other social programs health care

00:17:52.340 whatnot everything else comes before defense so defense is always left with the empty bag that will

00:17:59.900 happen and it's happened under conservative governments happens with greater frequency and with more

00:18:05.040 brutality under liberal governments and that's important to know and that's where trudeau is going with

00:18:10.780 this defense is not going to get enough money to survive it's always going to be

00:18:17.040 bear laden and that's the way the trudeau government wants to keep it

00:18:22.880 all the while promising on the horizon there's a pot of gold but they'll never get to that horizon

00:18:31.600 because the horizon keeps being pushed further and further into the distance anyway i want to show you a

00:18:40.460 flip here this is classic because even the national media are beginning to recognize the trudeau's

00:18:47.300 days are over now i know there's these podcasters out there who say that every other day it's over

00:18:53.560 not quite it's not over yet and trudeau's fighting back and you'll hear in this news conference just how

00:19:00.620 hard he's fighting back but even the national media the mainstream media recognizes that trudeau has become

00:19:06.380 an impediment to another liberal victory god forbid that there should ever be another liberal victory

00:19:13.420 but even the national media recognizes trudeau is part of the problem he's no longer the glory boy

00:19:20.080 the insouciant young emperor who thinks he can say and do anything without anyone really objecting

00:19:28.840 especially in the national media so let's have a listen to this globe and mail prime minister i want to ask you about

00:19:35.620 leadership um polls have put you 20 points behind the conservatives and it doesn't seem to be getting better

00:19:42.880 despite your recent communications push from your from your budget the public appears to have an overwhelmingly

00:19:48.780 negative view of you personally and you seem to have lost control of the conversation on some of the key issues

00:19:55.200 that canadians care about i think the public might be looking at you and your position right now

00:20:00.840 and thinking for the good of the liberal party why is he staying on thank you for your concern laura

00:20:07.280 um but as you see we're here investing in good jobs for today and for generations to come

00:20:17.360 the world is in a challenging place absolutely but that's why for eight years this government has been

00:20:24.700 putting forward investments and a frame that both fights climate change and creates good jobs and economic growth

00:20:34.780 that understands that if you want to bring in strong investments and great jobs for canadians

00:20:40.860 you have to be making investments in things like child care like pharma care like health care

00:20:47.320 investments in supporting our seniors

00:20:50.540 all right so we become a communist country where the government supplies all our needs

00:20:55.560 uh not really that's what he's talking about isn't it the investments as he likes to call them

00:21:03.180 constant government spending so what we can rely increasingly on the government and of course there

00:21:12.840 he goes with that challenges nonsense again investments to make sure that young people get the best

00:21:17.460 opportunity as they go off to post-secondary education

00:21:20.420 i know there are lots of folks in ottawa thinking about process i'm focused on results for canadians

00:21:32.100 i'm focused on delivering the kinds of things that are going to set canada and canadians up for success

00:21:38.040 over the coming decades because that's the moment we're in right now

00:21:42.740 can you think of anything justin trudeau has done

00:21:47.760 over the last eight to nine years

00:21:51.540 that has anything to do with setting canada up for success

00:21:56.880 he's decimating our economy he's spending twice as much as he takes in

00:22:01.360 he's ballooned the deficit he's ballooned the national debt

00:22:04.540 he has increased the amount of public servants at a rate

00:22:08.680 higher than any other prime minister in history

00:22:11.140 he is spending money like it's proverbial water

00:22:15.900 what has he done to set up canada for the future except if that future means economic catastrophe

00:22:24.520 a different government years ago wouldn't have made the choice

00:22:29.340 to build an ev ecosystem here in canada

00:22:34.460 what the hell is an ev ecosystem so yes here he is and another announcement strengthening our ev supply chain

00:22:44.240 electric vehicles are not an answer they're not even they're not even a a response let alone a panacea

00:22:56.840 these batteries are not sustainable they're not going to be able to be replaced because

00:23:02.940 we don't have the materials for these battery plants in canada we've got to extract them

00:23:08.080 from other parts of the world guess who's doing that for us china and child laborers

00:23:15.140 they're extracting these raw materials necessary to power these batteries to get them working

00:23:21.800 batteries have a very short life

00:23:25.280 and if your battery fails in your electric vehicle you're out of luck getting a replacement

00:23:32.120 and if your battery fails in the winter because it's too cold to operate you're out of luck getting to work

00:23:39.300 or to your mother's place and back

00:23:43.280 notice we've got doug ford here smiling sort of trying to smile

00:23:49.260 there he goes again propping up the government propping up the trudeau government

00:23:53.340 yeah yeah yeah great news for ontario isn't it doug and you came in on a anti-green energy platform

00:24:00.540 you got rid of all this nonsense that you knew wasn't going to power a modern economy

00:24:07.080 you knew that windmills and solar panels weren't going to power a modern industrial economy

00:24:15.020 because it wasn't sufficient you knew the electric rates in this in the province of ontario

00:24:22.360 were going through the roof to the point that businesses were leaving the province

00:24:26.220 you knew green energy was a myth you knew green energy was false

00:24:30.520 there you are standing behind justin trudeau again propping up his government

00:24:35.100 thank you doug ford you faux conservative you're at it again

00:24:40.160 put a double down on the oil and gas industry ah and stayed away from anything that threatened the

00:24:47.760 oil and gas industry

00:24:49.760 blame the oil and gas industry we know that the pressure we're putting on the oil and gas industry

00:24:53.600 to decarbonize and to invest in renewables goes hand in hand with our decision to invest massively

00:25:02.720 in the electrification of our economies because we have the clean electricity here in canada

00:25:08.720 we have the high quality manufacturing uh workers we have the social and economic stability

00:25:17.040 the countries around the world and companies around the world are looking for

00:25:20.800 this is about building a plan for the future of this country that's what we're focused on that's

00:25:26.400 what i will continue to be focused on because building a better future for canadians bringing in

00:25:32.320 fairness for every generation that's what i am 100 focused on yeah yeah yeah what you're 100 focused on

00:25:43.680 justin trudeau is clinging tenaciously to power staying leader of the liberal party of canada staying prime

00:25:52.400 minister that's what you're focused on you don't have a plan for canada you don't have a plan to get

00:25:57.520 us out of this disaster you put us in you have no idea and you just know that there are people

00:26:05.120 who want your job and you're going to do your damnedest to ensure they don't get it and what happens in

00:26:11.920 october 2025 when the next election is supposed to happen what do you bet we have a crisis that postpones that

00:26:20.720 next election that's what he's committed to that's what he's thinking very strongly about right now he's

00:26:28.800 not thinking about the welfare of canadians if he was he'd say i'm out of here i'm retiring it's over

00:26:34.880 for me i'm going because i've done what i thought i could do and it hasn't worked he'd be gone tomorrow

00:26:43.680 sorry he missed that arctic the snowstorm like his father had but i don't think he's going to take an

00:26:51.840 opportunity to consider his retirement anytime soon he's going to fight to the bitter end to stay in

00:26:58.160 until he faces his own internal revolt from the caucus in the cabinet and the liberal party insiders

00:27:06.400 with the money that's what's going to happen to justin trudeau well he blathers on blames the oil and gas

00:27:13.360 industry says they need to take more responsibility he will never take more responsibility for any of

00:27:20.560 the actions any of disasters he's created in the crisis he has accelerated and that's justin trudeau

00:27:28.160 and that's how he responds the questions about his leadership everybody else's fault don't ask me

00:27:35.760 to improve my leadership i'm the chief narcissistic prime minister thanks for watching today folks i'll

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Stand on Guard with David Krayden - May 15, 2024

Former Liberal Whip Stuns Trudeau By Advising Poilievre ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 130

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