Stand on Guard with David Krayden - July 08, 2024


Trudeau Has Failed to Defend Canada! ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 154


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Justin Trudeau is back in Washington D.C. to attend a NATO summit, but Canada is still spending less than 1.3% of its GDP on defense. Is this a problem, or is it a symptom of a larger problem?

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00:00:01.000 Is there any idea of Prime Minister Trudeau talking about you last night?
00:00:05.000 Well, he's two-faced.
00:00:07.000 Do you think that Germany is too naive?
00:00:10.000 And honestly, with Trudeau, he's a nice guy.
00:00:12.000 I find him to be a very nice guy.
00:00:14.000 But, you know, the truth is that I called him out on the fact
00:00:17.000 that he's not paying 2 percent, and I guess he's not very happy about it.
00:00:21.000 I mean, you were there, a couple of you were there,
00:00:23.000 and he's not paying 2 percent, and he should be paying 2 percent.
00:00:27.000 It's Canada, they have money, and they should be paying 2 percent.
00:00:30.000 So I called him out on that, and I'm sure he wasn't happy about it,
00:00:33.000 but that's the way it is.
00:00:34.000 Look, I'm representing the U.S., and he should be paying more than he's paying,
00:00:40.000 and he understands it.
00:00:42.000 So I can imagine he's not that happy, but that's the way it is.
00:00:48.000 Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard.
00:00:51.000 Thank you so much for watching today.
00:00:53.000 It's going to be a little bit of a military analysis,
00:00:56.000 One of my specialties, as you know, I'm ex-military.
00:01:00.000 I served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for a total of about 13 years,
00:01:04.000 and I still have a massive interest in national defense.
00:01:07.000 Should Canada be spending 2 percent of its GDP, as NATO suggests,
00:01:13.000 for national defense?
00:01:15.000 The bigger question, though, is should Canada be spending that money for Canada
00:01:20.000 and not for NATO?
00:01:22.000 We'll be discussing that when I come back.
00:01:25.000 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:01:29.000 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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00:02:12.000 We've got a lot of talk, lots to talk about today.
00:02:15.000 It's so nice to be back to discuss national defense issues with you.
00:02:20.000 I know it's always of interest.
00:02:22.000 But so what's going on?
00:02:23.000 Justin Trudeau is off to another NATO summit.
00:02:26.000 This time it's in Washington, D.C.
00:02:29.000 Every year he goes and every year he hears about how Canada is not spending.
00:02:38.000 Canada has pledged billions in its latest defense plan, its policy document, North Strong and Free.
00:02:51.000 And we'll be talking a bit more about that later.
00:02:54.000 But it's still nowhere near 2% of our GDP.
00:03:01.000 We're about 1.3%.
00:03:04.000 And as this report indicates, if we follow through on this billion dollar defense plan,
00:03:17.000 within the next five years, we'll only be at 1.76% of the GDP.
00:03:26.000 But yet, so what's awaiting Trudeau?
00:03:29.000 NATO is losing patience with Trudeau.
00:03:33.000 And, of course, every year Trudeau goes through this.
00:03:37.000 Now, I've got two things to say before we go any further about this.
00:03:41.000 Because I think it's...
00:03:43.000 Here's this defense policy paper.
00:03:46.000 Our North, Strong and Free.
00:03:49.000 A Renewal, Renewed Vision for Canada's Defense.
00:03:53.000 It's the same old, same old.
00:03:56.000 And it actually talks about making these commitments 20 years in advance.
00:04:04.000 This government's not going to be around in 20 years.
00:04:07.000 A lot of its members, cabinet members, could be dead.
00:04:11.000 It's certainly going to be a whole different government, a whole different world.
00:04:15.000 So why are we talking about defense planning and spending that's 20 years in the future? 0.93
00:04:21.000 This is ridiculous.
00:04:23.000 But the bigger question here, the bigger question is, why is NATO continuing to survive as an organization? 0.75
00:04:32.000 Is NATO even relevant?
00:04:37.000 And you know what I would suggest?
00:04:39.000 It's not relevant anymore.
00:04:42.000 It's not relevant because all it does is foment wars.
00:04:47.000 Now, as I've told you several times, I used to write the talking points for NATO when I served as an Air Force officer in Bosnia.
00:04:59.000 I tried to explain to the world that NATO was now doing a new mission.
00:05:04.000 It was called peacemaking.
00:05:06.000 There was no peace dividend after the end of the Cold War.
00:05:10.000 We were now peacemaking.
00:05:12.000 And NATO was going to insert itself into a civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
00:05:18.000 And that was the beginning of endless wars around the world.
00:05:22.000 We've seen the NATO get involved just about everywhere.
00:05:26.000 And NATO meaning the United States.
00:05:29.000 The United States has become involved in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, throughout the Middle East.
00:05:37.000 And is increasingly getting involved in the war in Ukraine.
00:05:42.000 And that's high stakes poker, my friend, because that could mean nuclear war with Russia.
00:05:48.000 Let's have a look at where Canada actually stands in defense spending against other NATO members.
00:05:55.000 Now, you might look at this and you remember the oft repeated phrase from Jonathan Higgins, the character in the first and best Magnum PI series, who used to say, my God, there's Canada, the red bar at the very bottom of the page.
00:06:19.000 Here we are spending 1.29% of our GDP on national defense, just ahead of Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg.
00:06:32.000 That is absolutely shocking.
00:06:36.000 So that's how little Canada is spending on its national defense.
00:06:41.000 It's always talking about how much it's going to spend in the future.
00:06:44.000 But you know what?
00:06:46.000 Now, I've shown you this slide before.
00:06:48.000 This is former Lieutenant General Andrew Leslie, who was briefly in the Trudeau cabinet as the government whip.
00:06:57.000 He was supposed to be, he thought, the defense minister.
00:07:00.000 But Trudeau gave that in the interest of identity politics to Harjit Sajjan, one of the worst examples of political decrepitude I've ever seen in the House of Commons.
00:07:13.000 So he gave it to Sajjan in the interest of identity politics.
00:07:17.000 And this man made an absolute disaster of his office.
00:07:21.000 But we'll talk more about that at another time.
00:07:24.000 But General Leslie has pointed out, Canada has given away all of its ammo to Ukraine.
00:07:29.000 And it has nothing left.
00:07:32.000 And it can't replace it.
00:07:34.000 Now, this is a man who would actually know what he's talking about.
00:07:37.000 But no, he can't replace it.
00:07:43.000 And we've given away, I think now, virtually, if not all, just about all of our leopard tanks to Ukraine.
00:07:51.000 And they have been destroyed on the battlefield.
00:07:54.000 Totally wiped out.
00:07:56.000 And we're not getting those back either.
00:07:59.000 And we can't replenish those either.
00:08:02.000 That's the sorry state of Canada's national defense.
00:08:07.000 What is NATO doing?
00:08:09.000 You saw that chart.
00:08:11.000 Thirty-two.
00:08:13.000 Look at that.
00:08:14.000 Thirty-two nations now belong to NATO.
00:08:18.000 Doesn't that increase the likelihood of a world war?
00:08:23.000 Because if one of those nations is invaded by somebody else, namely Russia,
00:08:30.000 Article 5 of NATO's constitution says that an attack on one member nation is an attack on all.
00:08:39.000 So do you want to go to war for Slovakia?
00:08:43.000 And that's exactly where we are with NATO.
00:08:46.000 NATO used to be one of the greatest organizations on the face of the earth.
00:08:50.000 It was a fantastic alliance system that had clear objectives and that kept the old Soviet Union out of Western Europe. 0.98
00:09:00.000 It preserved the peace and it preserved freedom in Western Europe.
00:09:06.000 That world changed with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
00:09:15.000 The Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact.
00:09:18.000 Or I should say Russia.
00:09:21.000 The new Russian Federation disbanded the Warsaw Pact with the demise of the Soviet Union.
00:09:27.000 NATO should have been disbanded as well.
00:09:31.000 Instead, it continued to creep eastward ever eastward towards Russia.
00:09:36.000 And increased its membership from 18 to 32 member nations.
00:09:43.000 This is insane.
00:09:45.000 Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO.
00:09:49.000 And yes, Canada should be spending more on its military.
00:09:53.000 But not because it wants to be a member of NATO.
00:09:57.000 But because it wants to have a viable military that can defend North America.
00:10:02.000 We're going to stay close allies with the United States.
00:10:06.000 We're going to maintain continental defense.
00:10:09.000 We're going to remain a member of NORAD, which is a viable, feasible organization.
00:10:14.000 It's a viable defense alliance because it does not threaten anybody.
00:10:18.000 It preserves sovereignty in North America for both Canada and the United States.
00:10:23.000 No, Canada cannot maintain all of its defense commitments alone.
00:10:28.000 But it can on a continental basis.
00:10:31.000 It doesn't need to involve itself in European wars or European politics anymore.
00:10:37.000 Any more than the United States does.
00:10:39.000 This is a fact of life.
00:10:41.000 So yes, we should be spending 2% of our GDP on national defense.
00:10:46.000 But no, we should not be using it to spend money for NATO.
00:10:53.000 Because NATO is an organization that's past its prime, past its shelf life.
00:11:00.000 Yes, it was a viable, vibrant organization at one time.
00:11:03.000 But so was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
00:11:07.000 But its days are long gone as well.
00:11:10.000 Over a century ago, it perished.
00:11:13.000 It passed into history.
00:11:15.000 And NATO needs to pass into history now.
00:11:17.000 What is NATO doing wrong?
00:11:22.000 Well, all we need to do is look at how NATO...
00:11:25.000 Let's have a look at this slide first.
00:11:28.000 The New York Times finally reported on this story.
00:11:32.000 About two years too late.
00:11:36.000 In 2022, Russia and Ukraine were talking.
00:11:41.000 There was a peace treaty ready to be signed.
00:11:46.000 And guess what?
00:11:47.000 Ukrainian President Volomar Zelensky realized Ukraine wasn't going to win that war.
00:11:53.000 And it better take what it could early in the conflict.
00:11:56.000 End the war before Ukraine became a vassal of Russia.
00:12:01.000 Lost a lot of territory.
00:12:03.000 And lost a million men and some women in the war.
00:12:09.000 Well, that's exactly what's happened.
00:12:11.000 And NATO was completely irresponsible in blocking the peace treaty.
00:12:16.000 Boris Johnson went to intervene.
00:12:19.000 Ukraine.
00:12:20.000 Johnson, who was then the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
00:12:23.000 He went to Ukraine to intervene and stop it.
00:12:28.000 And they've admitted this now.
00:12:31.000 They finally admitted that America did not want peace in Ukraine.
00:12:38.000 Because it wanted to push Russia farther into war. 0.59
00:12:43.000 And to see how much damage the war could produce on Russian military strength.
00:12:53.000 And economic strength.
00:12:55.000 It wanted to destroy Russia. 0.85
00:12:57.000 The United States has never been about accommodation with Russia.
00:13:02.000 Following the end of the Soviet Union.
00:13:04.000 Following the end of the Cold War.
00:13:07.000 It's always been about wearing down Russia. 0.98
00:13:10.000 So the United States can be the only superpower in the world.
00:13:14.000 And the United States power can be paramount everywhere in the world.
00:13:17.000 In Europe.
00:13:18.000 In Asia.
00:13:19.000 In Africa. 0.56
00:13:20.000 And of course in North America.
00:13:21.000 And South America.
00:13:22.000 That's what this is all about.
00:13:24.000 That's what it's always been about.
00:13:26.000 So what does Canada want to be.
00:13:29.000 Continued to be.
00:13:31.000 A part.
00:13:33.000 Of this organization.
00:13:35.000 That is falling apart.
00:13:37.000 Turkey is on the verge of leaving NATO.
00:13:39.000 Hungary wants out. 0.95
00:13:41.000 Because it doesn't want a war with Russia.
00:13:43.000 And certainly doesn't think a nuclear war is a good idea for anybody.
00:13:48.000 How much is Canada spending?
00:13:52.000 And here we go.
00:13:53.000 Canada can't spend 2% of its GDP on national defense.
00:13:57.000 It can't maintain a viable Army, Navy, and Air Force.
00:14:00.000 On average, 55% of our ships, of our armored personnel carriers, and our fighter jets at any one time are unserviceable.
00:14:15.000 U.S., as we used to say in the military.
00:14:18.000 They don't work.
00:14:20.000 55% on average.
00:14:23.000 Fighter jets.
00:14:24.000 Transport aircraft.
00:14:25.000 Search and rescue aircraft.
00:14:27.000 Frigates.
00:14:28.000 Destroyers.
00:14:29.000 Canadian patrol frigates.
00:14:30.000 Armored patrol carriers.
00:14:33.000 Armored personnel carriers.
00:14:36.000 Tanks.
00:14:37.000 Which we have none left, by the way.
00:14:39.000 Virtually 100% of those are unserviceable.
00:14:42.000 But look how much money we are spending in Ukraine.
00:14:45.000 Economic assistance.
00:14:47.000 12.4 billion.
00:14:50.000 That's military assistance.
00:14:52.000 But guess where a lot of that goes.
00:14:55.000 Yes, it's going back into the military industrial complex in North America.
00:15:00.000 Because there's joint plants in the U.S.-Canada.
00:15:04.000 Raytheon.
00:15:05.000 All of these companies.
00:15:06.000 General Dynamics.
00:15:07.000 Boeing.
00:15:08.000 This is all part of the military industrial complex that just lusts after more wars.
00:15:14.000 Because they make billions of dollars off of them.
00:15:17.000 So yes, the money is going back into the military industrial complex.
00:15:21.000 But other monies are being gobbled up by corrupt government officials in Kyiv.
00:15:28.000 I call it the black hole of Kyiv.
00:15:30.000 Humanitarian assistance.
00:15:32.000 325.5 million dollars.
00:15:35.000 Development assistance.
00:15:38.000 To 442 million dollars.
00:15:40.000 Security and stabilization support.
00:15:43.000 What the hell does that mean?
00:15:45.000 Just about anything else.
00:15:47.000 Approximately 210 million dollars.
00:15:50.000 Total price tag.
00:15:51.000 Over 14 billion dollars.
00:15:54.000 Canada has squandered on the war in Ukraine.
00:15:58.000 Into the black hole of Kyiv.
00:16:00.000 So these are the real issues.
00:16:03.000 About should Canada be spending more on its military?
00:16:06.000 Yes, it should be spending more on its military.
00:16:09.000 But should Canada?
00:16:11.000 I'm going to have a look at your comments here.
00:16:13.000 Before we go any further.
00:16:16.000 Because I really appreciate what you folks are saying.
00:16:23.000 So I've got some more clips to show you.
00:16:25.000 Some more information to share with you.
00:16:27.000 But I think this is very important.
00:16:30.000 Yes.
00:16:31.000 There you are.
00:16:33.000 No more money to Ukraine.
00:16:37.000 That's where our military spending is going.
00:16:42.000 That's where it's all going.
00:16:45.000 And if you don't believe me.
00:16:47.000 Just have a look.
00:16:48.000 And here's of course.
00:16:50.000 Justin Trudeau.
00:16:51.000 The last time he was.
00:16:53.000 This is from the 2019.
00:16:57.000 NATO summit.
00:16:58.000 When Donald Trump was still president.
00:17:01.000 And was at this.
00:17:02.000 Listen to how Trudeau.
00:17:04.000 Tap dances around the question of military spending.
00:17:07.000 I think NATO has become a very big factor.
00:17:09.000 Over the last two or three years.
00:17:10.000 You've been involved.
00:17:11.000 I've been involved.
00:17:12.000 And a lot of good things have happened.
00:17:15.000 And it's great to have you here.
00:17:16.000 Thank you very much.
00:17:17.000 Thank you.
00:17:18.000 Congratulations.
00:17:19.000 Thank you.
00:17:20.000 It's a real pleasure to be sitting down with President Trump.
00:17:23.000 The relationship between Canada and the United States is incredibly strong.
00:17:28.000 I don't think it's ever been stronger.
00:17:30.000 Our work together on the USMCA as we move forward towards ratification has been really tremendous.
00:17:38.000 It's been a great process working between your team and our team.
00:17:43.000 Working with the Mexicans as well.
00:17:45.000 We know that we're here for NATO.
00:17:47.000 A 70th anniversary.
00:17:48.000 Extremely important.
00:17:49.000 The American strength in ensuring that people are stepping up in terms of their military investments is certainly something we recognize in Canada.
00:17:59.000 We're increasing our defense investments by 70% over these 10 years because we know that making sure that everyone is there to step up.
00:18:09.000 Okay.
00:18:10.000 Did you just hear him say that?
00:18:12.000 They're increasing defense commitments by 70% over 10 years.
00:18:19.000 That's the line, what, almost five years ago now.
00:18:24.000 Trudeau was claiming in the next seven years he was going to increase military spending by 70%.
00:18:30.000 What a complete lie.
00:18:32.000 He's done absolutely nothing.
00:18:34.000 Defense spending is once again stagnant at 1.3%.
00:18:39.000 And even in his latest plan will go no higher than 1.76% of the GDP.
00:18:46.000 But he's once again lying through his teeth.
00:18:50.000 As he always does.
00:18:52.000 Deliver is really important.
00:18:53.000 We have an intense forward battle group in Latvia.
00:18:58.000 We're leading the command mission in Baghdad.
00:19:01.000 Canadians are a strong part of this alliance and will continue to be.
00:19:05.000 But this is just a great opportunity for me to sit down with the president and talk about the many issues in which we align and we work together.
00:19:14.000 So we've Donald Trump is actually mused in the past about the viability of NATO.
00:19:25.000 When he was president, he demanded other countries pay their fair share.
00:19:29.000 I hate that phrase, fair share.
00:19:31.000 But he was saying it's time for the United States to demand the other member states pay a larger portion to remain members of this club. 0.99
00:19:42.000 But it's become a club of fools, hasn't it? 0.98
00:19:46.000 It's no longer a viable military alliance. 0.99
00:19:48.000 It doesn't know what its objectives are, except to foment war with Russia and to interfere in every conflict around the world. 0.77
00:19:55.000 It used to have, as I said at the beginning of the broadcast, a clear objective to contain the Soviet Union, to maintain peace, prosperity and stability in Western Europe. 0.88
00:20:09.000 That's what NATO was all about.
00:20:12.000 And it fulfilled that mandate very well.
00:20:15.000 But after 75 years, I'll say it again.
00:20:18.000 It's time to say so long, farewell, amen.
00:20:22.000 Again, you have way gone past your best before date.
00:20:29.000 And you don't have a clear objective anymore except to interfere in foreign conflicts.
00:20:33.000 And that's all you're doing.
00:20:35.000 And it's time to say enough.
00:20:38.000 So Canada, no, shouldn't be a member of NATO anymore because NATO needs to be dissolved. 0.91
00:20:45.000 Canada needs to start building up its defense forces in a credible way, not to become a part of NATO in its foreign wars, not to give tens of billion dollars away to Ukraine, not to sacrifice the lives of its sons and daughters in stupid foreign wars that mean nothing, 0.57
00:21:05.000 that have no relevance to Canadian security.
00:21:09.000 But we need to be a country with a strong, viable defense.
00:21:13.000 Yes, but outside of NATO, which is yesterday's organization.
00:21:18.000 It's an organization without any relevance or meaning today.
00:21:22.000 And like I said, I used to write the talking points.
00:21:25.000 I used to try to explain to people how NATO's mission had changed.
00:21:29.000 It wasn't about the Cold War anymore.
00:21:31.000 It wasn't about containing the Soviet Union.
00:21:34.000 It was about, well, intervening in other struggles, intervening anywhere it was needed.
00:21:41.000 Well, that never ends.
00:21:42.000 And there's no point to that.
00:21:44.000 There's no end to that.
00:21:45.000 And it just goes on and on and on.
00:21:48.000 And it costs hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:21:51.000 But you know what?
00:21:53.000 There's some people who want that.
00:21:55.000 And that's called the arms merchants.
00:21:57.000 The merchants of death want that.
00:21:59.000 The military industrial complex identified by President Dwight Eisenhower in his closing words to the American people in 1961 as president.
00:22:09.000 He said, beware of the military industrial complex, which will inevitably seek to encroach on democratic freedoms and seek to take more and more power away from the American people and from the American Congress.
00:22:28.000 Because it seeks to establish endless wars for its own purpose, and it seeks to become completely indispensable to the American economic scheme.
00:22:43.000 Did you know there was a time in America when defense spending was seen as a negative phenomenon?
00:22:50.000 Something that detracted from the economy?
00:22:54.000 That was a long time ago.
00:22:57.000 Ever since 1945, defense spending has been clearly the most dominant factor in the American economy.
00:23:08.000 And that is something that's got to stop.
00:23:13.000 The United States is spending more on its military budget now than it did at the height of the Cold War.
00:23:19.000 Almost a trillion dollars a year.
00:23:23.000 I'm not suggesting Canada should spend 10% of that.
00:23:27.000 But yes, we do need a viable military.
00:23:30.000 But no, it cannot be part of NATO anymore.
00:23:37.000 Here's an interesting little get-together between Trudeau and Zelensky.
00:23:44.000 And this shows you exactly what's at play here in NATO.
00:23:49.000 It seems like we're seeing each other every few weeks now from Japan at the G7 to when I visited Kiev a few weeks ago to now here.
00:24:03.000 But it's a really important time for us to be always making sure that we're giving you all the best support we can.
00:24:10.000 It's been an important time to come together to have you at NATO.
00:24:14.000 There's a path forward and we're continuing to work on getting all the support that Ukraine needs during this incredibly pivotal time.
00:24:23.000 As collectively, we stand not just for Ukraine but against Russia and everything that's trying to destabilize in your country and around the world.
00:24:33.000 As you know, Canada will always be there for Ukraine with everything you need.
00:24:37.000 And we will continue to. It's great to see you.
00:24:41.000 Again, thanks for your visit to Ukraine.
00:24:43.000 And thanks for the real feeling of all of us.
00:24:47.000 All of our feelings that really Canadians helped Ukraine and helped from the very beginning of full-scale war.
00:24:54.000 We really count on you people and we are the same and we fight for the same values.
00:25:02.000 And my appreciation for all your support and your government.
00:25:07.000 Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:25:09.000 I'm happy that we have conversation today on the field of NATO and we need your support.
00:25:15.000 I'm sure that we'll have it.
00:25:17.000 Oh, yeah, he's got it.
00:25:21.000 And the problem in Canada right now is that we have a uniparty on supporting Ukraine and supporting NATO and supporting the encroachment and the slow sleepwalk towards a nuclear war with Russia.
00:25:39.000 We have a uniparty support on that.
00:25:41.000 And that's tragic.
00:25:43.000 We need to have more discussion, more debate, because I can tell you that most of the conservative grassroots in this country are opposed to continued military assistance to Ukraine.
00:25:59.000 They want the war to end and they want the military assistance to end.
00:26:04.000 They want Canada to focus on military needs that are relevant to Canada and to stop interfering in foreign wars, stop getting involved in foreign wars.
00:26:16.000 That's what the conservative grassroots in this country.
00:26:19.000 That's what small C conservatives want.
00:26:21.000 That's what small L libertarians want, a focus on Canadian defense needs, not NATO defense needs, not what the U.S. wants us to do, not what Europe thinks we should do, not what Ukraine thinks we should do.
00:26:37.000 It's time to move beyond that, because NATO has demonstrated it has no raison d'etre anymore, at least one that is viable, comprehensible, understandable, or valid.
00:26:53.000 It has clearly moved beyond the comprehensible or any kind of mission statement that makes sense to anybody watching.
00:27:06.000 It's an organization trying to justify its existence because a lot of people make a lot of money out of NATO.
00:27:14.000 From those who get jobs with the organization and from all of those arms merchants who make arms to supply to the wars that NATO creates and sustains around the world.
00:27:28.000 Not easy for me to take this position.
00:27:31.000 I wore the uniform proudly and I still believe strongly in national defense.
00:27:38.000 However, even though I used to write the talking points for NATO and why it was so unnecessary for NATO to get involved in wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, I have completely refocused my attention on what is actual, what is real, and what is necessary.
00:28:01.000 And foreign wars are killing us.
00:28:05.000 They're killing the economy, they're killing Canada, they're killing the United States.
00:28:10.000 And it's time to have a new focus.
00:28:13.000 And we need to move away from NATO's outmoded desire to simply justify its existence.
00:28:22.000 It used to have one, it doesn't anymore.
00:28:25.000 So, to sum up, yes, fine, let Canada have a viable national defense, we need it.
00:28:32.000 But no, that viable national defense is not one that should be and remain a part of NATO.
00:28:40.000 NATO as an organization needs to stand down after 75 years.
00:28:45.000 And Trudeau needs to stop being two-faced about running around the world telling people how to vote, how to live, how to live democratically while he shuts down free speech in Canada and hasn't got the decency to support Canada's military, Canada's men and women in uniform, Canada's national defense, the Canadian Armed Forces. 0.91
00:29:10.000 He once again is the complete hypocrite, the unalloyed narcissist who thinks it's all about Justin Trudeau walking on the world stage and telling everyone else how to live, how to vote, how to operate. 0.95
00:29:25.000 And he's not prepared to put the money where it should be. 0.99
00:29:30.000 And all he wants to do is talk about Ukraine.
00:29:33.000 Let's face it.
00:29:34.000 Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO.
00:29:38.000 Ukraine is not going to win the war with Russia.
00:29:41.000 It's already lost it.
00:29:43.000 NATO cannot continue to insert itself into every foreign war around the world.
00:29:49.000 And Canada cannot continue to function with Justin Trudeau as prime minister.
00:29:54.000 It's time for political change.
00:29:57.000 I'm going to leave it at that for now.
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