Stand on Guard with David Krayden - February 21, 2024


＂What Have You Got To Hide, Justin？＂ ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 93 #arrivecan #arrivescam

Topics
GC Strategies scandal Arrive corruption in Canada's response to pandemic
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David Krayden
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Justin Trudeau Karen Hogan Andrew Scheer Christian Firth Darren Anthony Pierre Pauly David Creighton Michael Barrett Steve McKinnon Pierre Poilievre Paul Bernardo Milliken Speaker Bond
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GC Strategies is one of the companies at the centre of the Arrive, Can or Scan scandal. They have been accused of fraud, corruption, waste and abuse of power by the Trudeau government. Is Canada a third world country where the government just dispenses money to its friends and not to its enemies?

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00:00:01.000 Welcome back to Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton.
00:00:05.920 One company name, GC Strategies.
00:00:11.800 I'll be back with more in mere moments.
00:00:16.960 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:21.200 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:30.000 All right, so what's the deal with GC Strategies?
00:00:40.520 This is the company.
00:00:42.300 I don't know if it's one person or two,
00:00:45.780 but this is one of the companies involved in the Arrive, Can, or Scan scandal.
00:00:51.960 Before I go any further, yes, please ring the bell.
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00:01:23.920 We've had some tragedies here recently, first with my sister and then with my beloved cat.
00:01:31.840 But please ring that bell.
00:01:33.720 Please continue to be a supporter and a part of the movement,
00:01:39.280 a part of resisting the liberal government, resolve to resist.
00:01:46.380 Now, I want to get into this.
00:01:48.960 I hate that expression, deep dive, because I don't use cliches,
00:01:55.560 but I want to do that right now.
00:01:58.740 GC Strategies
00:01:59.940 seems to be the focal point of the Arrive, Can scandal.
00:02:08.260 Now, what is, if you haven't heard about Arrive, Can, and what it's all about,
00:02:14.580 it's the revelation last week from Auditor General Karen Hogan,
00:02:19.640 when she revealed that this app that was created during the COVID-19 pandemic,
00:02:28.120 supposedly to make it easier for people to get into or back into Canada
00:02:32.820 by providing proof of their double vaccination at the border to allow for speedy access.
00:02:41.920 It did none of those things.
00:02:43.440 It was a complete failure.
00:02:46.120 And we won't even get into the COVID-19 hotels.
00:02:49.440 Remember those where people had to spend like three days and nights
00:02:53.000 and they were barely fed and they missed work because of it?
00:02:58.960 It was a disaster.
00:03:01.060 So the Arrive, Can app didn't even work.
00:03:06.240 But what Auditor General Karen Hogan revealed last week,
00:03:09.180 and we'll get into GC Strategies here in a bit,
00:03:12.380 in terms of what exactly is involved and how they have been implicated,
00:03:18.880 not only in the Arrive, Can scam, but in garnering huge government contracts
00:03:26.900 since Justin Trudeau became prime minister.
00:03:30.200 And this is very important.
00:03:32.100 Auditor General Karen Hogan said last week that this COVID era app was managed so abysmally
00:03:40.100 that the cost overrun went from $80,000 to at least $60 million.
00:03:50.040 She can't say exactly how much because there was no bookkeeping.
00:03:55.320 They didn't keep evidence of who got the contracts when.
00:04:02.020 She can only say it's at least $59.5 to $60 million.
00:04:06.500 That's almost 1,000 times more than it was supposed to cost.
00:04:10.680 It's about 750 times as much as it was supposed to cost.
00:04:16.220 Now, in any other country, this would be called a scandal befitting the downfall,
00:04:23.200 the removal of the government, a vote of non-confidence.
00:04:27.560 And there's enough members in the House of Commons that are not sitting as liberals
00:04:32.100 that that could happen, except the NDP are in the pockets of the liberal government.
00:04:36.300 And so are the bloc members.
00:04:40.080 But here's what Hogan said.
00:04:42.140 And I'm not, I'm not, I won't overuse this expression, but Hogan is a hero.
00:04:49.900 You remember the show.
00:04:51.120 Hogan is a hero for being perhaps the last member of the bureaucracy.
00:04:57.220 It has not been politicized by the Trudeau government.
00:05:02.180 Forget the RCMP.
00:05:04.000 Forget National Defense.
00:05:06.040 Forget the Canadian Security Intelligence Service being non-politicized or non-partisan or apolitical.
00:05:13.560 They're all in the government's pocket to some degree.
00:05:16.060 Hogan had the audacity and the honesty to call out the Trudeau government for massive dishonesty with this app.
00:05:29.800 The Canadian Border Service Agency's documentation, financial records, and controls were so poor
00:05:37.620 that we were unable to determine the precise cost of the arrive-can application.
00:05:44.760 Using the information that was available, we estimated the cost at approximately $59.5 million,
00:05:50.540 Hogan wrote in her report.
00:05:54.240 Now, this is absolutely shocking.
00:05:56.680 Is Canada a third world country where the government just dispenses money to its friends
00:06:03.600 and expects the public to just say, okay, go ahead.
00:06:08.320 We're not outraged.
00:06:09.660 Apparently, that's what it's come to.
00:06:12.800 Now, let's have a look at GC strategies.
00:06:15.500 Now, the numbers involved in this range from the two owner-managers, Christian Firth and Darren Anthony,
00:06:29.620 to as many as five or perhaps four people involved in the company.
00:06:34.600 No matter how many, whether it's two or five or four, it's a small company,
00:06:41.140 almost literally a mom-and-pop shop, working in their basement or living room.
00:06:47.780 But yet, since 2015, GC Strategies Incorporated has been awarded 140 contracts by the liberal government,
00:06:59.060 worth a total of $258 million.
00:07:02.840 $258 million for a company of that size.
00:07:13.900 Let's hear what Conservative leader, Pierre Pauly, have had to say about this today, Wednesday, February 21st.
00:07:24.780 On top of all of it, we have the ARRIVE scam.
00:07:27.100 The ARRIVE scam, where Justin Trudeau paid at least $60 million for an app that didn't work, that we didn't need,
00:07:36.620 and that could have been done for $80,000.
00:07:39.880 One company, GC Strategies, has had approximately a quarter million dollars of contracts, according to a LaPresse study.
00:07:51.500 A quarter million dollars of contracts for a five-person company that operates out of the basement of a cottage for IT services,
00:08:04.440 even though the company admits they don't do IT work.
00:08:09.880 Well, common sense conservatives are calling GC Strategies and its employees to testify under oath at a parliamentary committee.
00:08:16.920 They're refusing, and so we've put forward a motion to have them arrested and physically dragged into the room
00:08:25.180 to explain where our quarter billion dollars went.
00:08:28.860 Where's the funds?
00:08:31.480 Yesterday, liberal MPs started a filibuster, that's a talk-a-thon,
00:08:37.120 talking into the mic, running out the clock to prevent GC Strategies officials from being brought into committee.
00:08:43.620 What have you got to hide, Justin?
00:08:45.020 Justin, why won't you bring in these consultants to explain why you gave them a quarter of a billion tax dollars?
00:08:53.020 If you've got nothing to hide, get your MPs out of the way and let us bring them in here,
00:08:58.860 because we have single moms who are putting water in their kids' milk 1.00
00:09:02.840 because they cannot afford the cost of groceries,
00:09:07.440 who are now paying taxes so that you can stuff a quarter billion dollars into the pockets of this shady company.
00:09:18.440 Okay, so GC Strategies was a middleman.
00:09:22.760 They didn't know anything about IT.
00:09:24.820 So what were they doing involved in the Arrive Can app?
00:09:29.760 Clearly, nothing more than collecting money as a middleman.
00:09:35.060 You hire somebody to hire somebody.
00:09:38.320 Is that any way to spend taxpayer money?
00:09:40.740 Well, obviously no, but that's what the Trudeau government is very good at,
00:09:44.260 wasting your money, wasting your taxpayer dollars in this fashion.
00:09:48.660 Now, yes, we need a full investigation into this.
00:09:54.620 And Pierre Polyev alluded to what's going on right now in the Public Accounts Committee
00:10:02.860 and the Government Operations Committee.
00:10:05.720 There is a move on to bring the directors,
00:10:11.740 the owners of this GC Strategies Incorporated 2 Committee
00:10:17.660 to explain what they did to earn $20 million in the creation of the Arrive Can app.
00:10:27.300 And what did they do to get $258 million in government contracts?
00:10:33.420 I think we need to know that.
00:10:35.480 I think taxpayers deserve that much from this corrupt liberal government.
00:10:42.400 Now, this is enraging me.
00:10:43.700 I think you can see that.
00:10:45.320 It's not just the fact we spent $60 million on Arrive Can and got nothing
00:10:51.180 except more authoritarian measures from a liberal government.
00:10:56.440 It's not just that we spent $258 million on GC Strategies for work that we have no idea
00:11:05.680 what it was all about.
00:11:10.600 It's the fact that Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, again, is running for cover when you ask him
00:11:17.200 these questions.
00:11:18.000 And he insists this was all done for the safety of the public.
00:11:22.880 We had your best interests in mind.
00:11:26.000 When this came up in question period last week, Trudeau answered those questions in the same
00:11:33.200 way every time.
00:11:34.760 Yeah, there is something wrong here, all right.
00:11:37.520 But don't look at me.
00:11:39.540 I'm just the prime minister.
00:11:41.380 I'm not responsible for this mess.
00:11:44.840 I'm not accountable to anybody.
00:11:47.220 Here, ask my government house leader, Steve McKinnon, about this, please, because I think I'll leave.
00:11:53.420 Time for me to go, and I'm not going to ask, I'm not going to answer any more of your questions,
00:11:59.040 because it's not my problem.
00:12:01.440 That's Justin Trudeau's attitude every time.
00:12:04.580 And he expects us to just say, hey, yeah, you guys were trying to look out for us.
00:12:09.140 I guess you wasted some money.
00:12:11.040 It's the corruption that bothers me the most.
00:12:13.400 It's the third world mentality that bothers me the most, that this is somehow acceptable.
00:12:20.360 This is an acceptable way for a democratic government to run its course, to do business.
00:12:27.100 And it's not.
00:12:27.620 And this is not an acceptable way for a prime minister of Canada to behave, to be so negligent and so reluctant to absorb any responsibility for this mess that he was responsible for.
00:12:46.900 His attitudes towards the pandemic, his authoritarian attitudes to lock down and to punish Canadians, to force Canadians to get that vaccine.
00:12:55.360 That is what is so enraging about this.
00:12:58.280 And then to pretend there's no problem here.
00:13:01.100 So what's going on?
00:13:01.960 They want to bring these people, they have to bring them there against their will if they don't agree to go.
00:13:09.860 This is Christian Firth and Darren Anthony.
00:13:13.400 They want to bring them before the committee and explain what happened.
00:13:16.940 And if they have to use a sergeant at arms to do that, they will do so.
00:13:22.760 So what's happening?
00:13:25.040 Although, as Pierre Pauly have explained, the liberals on the committee are engaged in a little bit of filibustering.
00:13:35.020 They're engaged in a little bit of distraction.
00:13:38.260 They don't want to be counted.
00:13:40.220 They don't want their votes to be counted.
00:13:41.920 They don't really want to facilitate this process because they don't want to know the truth.
00:13:50.020 The truth is probably very damning for the Trudeau government.
00:13:55.100 And they don't want that to be made public.
00:13:58.280 Let's hear what happened yesterday when Member of Parliament Michael Barrett and former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer teamed up for a news conference to explain what they want to do.
00:14:10.800 I'll have more to say after that.
00:14:16.060 Good morning.
00:14:17.200 I'm here with my colleague Andrew Scheer as the Government Operations Committee is set to meet this afternoon where Common Sense Conservatives will put forward a motion summoning the principles of GC Strategies to appear before the Government Operations Committee.
00:14:36.180 GC Strategies, of course, is the two-person firm who worked on Justin Trudeau's $60 million arrive scam scandal.
00:14:45.900 But this app had this $20 million contract where this company did no actual IT work.
00:14:54.060 And they have now twice refused to appear, having been summoned by committee.
00:15:00.160 And the effect of today's motion will be to use the full power of the House of Commons to have these individuals appear before committee.
00:15:11.460 It's incredibly important when we have this report from the Auditor General that revealed that this $60 million scandal with this app that wrongly imprisoned,
00:15:24.140 10,000 Canadians wrongly quarantined them, didn't have proper management oversight and no cost controls.
00:15:31.960 And, of course, revealed that the app cost many millions more than the government had first disclosed.
00:15:39.120 So today's motion is critical and it's going to be a real test of the NDP-Liberal Coalition because we're going to find out if the NDP are prepared to provide the accountability and answers that Canadians deserve in Justin Trudeau's latest scandal.
00:15:58.420 And this is the minimum that they can do.
00:16:02.340 We understand that they've been in the practice of helping Justin Trudeau cover up his scandals.
00:16:08.720 But in this case, Canadians deserve answers and accountability.
00:16:12.280 And that's what our motion is calling for today.
00:16:16.220 I'm just wondering if you can talk about, as a former speaker, how rare is it that you would see the sergeant-at-arms hauling somebody before a committee?
00:16:24.640 Well, it is very rare.
00:16:26.020 And it's unfortunate that it's come to this point.
00:16:29.160 But it's essential that we use this tool if these individuals continue to ignore.
00:16:33.900 So we're going to summon them again.
00:16:36.620 And this time, though, there will be the understanding that if they ignore this summons, that there will be consequences.
00:16:43.460 There is a recent precedent.
00:16:45.100 Speaker Milliken did issue a subpoena to compel testimony from a witness.
00:16:50.600 And law enforcement agencies cooperated with that.
00:16:53.780 Yes, it's rare.
00:16:55.780 But we're talking about at least $60 million of taxpayers' money that the government used the pandemic as an excuse to ignore the rules.
00:17:03.880 We just heard from the committee today that decisions were made to relax rules and to relax requirements for things like testing updates to the app,
00:17:14.880 to forego the usual bidding process.
00:17:18.820 We have to make sure that Canadians understand what happened during the pandemic, not just with their money, but their lives as well,
00:17:25.180 with many of them being forced to quarantine for no reason.
00:17:28.000 We heard today that at least 10,000 people were wrongly given quarantine orders because of a glitch in the app.
00:17:34.100 I mean, we're talking about 10,000 people who had to quarantine at their own expense, many of whom would have missed shifts at work or missed important life events.
00:17:42.220 And that's unacceptable.
00:17:43.480 So the fact that these two individuals have already ignored previous requests is not just unfortunate, but it's a sign of grave disrespect to Canadian taxpayers.
00:17:53.160 And now it's up to the Liberals and NDP to vote with us to ensure that Canadians find the truth.
00:18:01.580 Okay, so the quarantine that Andrew Scheer is talking about is the COVID hotel that existed at key airports across Canada,
00:18:12.960 where people were quarantined because they were deemed to be unsafe to be let loose.
00:18:17.680 It was all so unnecessary.
00:18:21.440 And just as now we're beginning to discover how unnecessary the double vaccine was, how it didn't protect people from getting COVID,
00:18:31.100 how all of this was an excuse for an authoritarian lockdown.
00:18:35.140 We need to find out more about this.
00:18:38.820 How much corruption is it going to take until this NDP support for the Trudeau government cracks?
00:18:45.340 How much?
00:18:46.420 I want to know that.
00:18:48.440 And it's time if there's anybody in that NDP party sitting in the House of Commons that has any principle left, they need to say so now.
00:19:00.340 Now, ignore the BS you're seeing out there from some people on YouTube who are again lying about how serious this is for the prime minister or how he's going to go to jail for another supposed scandal in the Senate.
00:19:16.640 This is all nonsense.
00:19:19.440 Justin Trudeau has not been charged with a crime and it's unlikely he's going to be charged with a crime.
00:19:26.520 And it sure as hell is pretty distant that he's going to jail.
00:19:32.020 Serious jail time. 0.99
00:19:33.940 No, this is nothing but clickbait and crap. 0.99
00:19:38.500 Justin Trudeau is clinging to power tenaciously. 0.99
00:19:41.140 He refuses to even acknowledge his responsibility for this scandal.
00:19:45.240 And he's once again running away from it.
00:19:48.240 We need to keep the heat on.
00:19:50.180 The House isn't sitting this week.
00:19:51.920 There's no question period.
00:19:53.200 The committees are still meeting, thank God, and they need to keep this heat on.
00:19:58.280 We were nailing Trudeau's reputation to the wall last week.
00:20:07.020 But he's got to reprieve because the House decided to go on a break again.
00:20:11.300 They're always going on breaks.
00:20:14.060 So they're off again this week.
00:20:15.680 The heat is off Trudeau and he's running around the country talking about housing.
00:20:19.060 Doesn't want to talk about a ride, Ken.
00:20:21.380 But we need to keep the subject in the national media.
00:20:29.460 In front of the public.
00:20:34.060 Keep the public's attention focused on a ride, Ken.
00:20:37.320 Because it's emblematic of how corrupt the Trudeau government is.
00:20:41.120 How irresponsible Justin Trudeau is. 0.99
00:20:43.920 How galling his indifference, hypocrisy, and how tolerant he is of corruption. 0.99
00:20:52.200 It's emblematic of all of these things. 0.90
00:20:55.000 And we need to keep the pressure on.
00:20:56.640 And I intend to keep the pressure on as much as possible.
00:21:03.880 So keep watching this week.
00:21:05.640 We're not doing the House of God question period because it's not happening this week.
00:21:10.140 We're back next week with that.
00:21:12.460 But keep watching these broadcasts because I don't bring you clickbait.
00:21:15.720 I don't promise you things I can't deliver.
00:21:19.380 I don't put lies and falsehoods out there.
00:21:23.920 I give you the truth.
00:21:26.100 Because we have enough lies and falsehoods from the Trudeau government.
00:21:30.760 We need to speak truth and accurate information.
00:21:34.880 And that's what this broadcast is all about.
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00:22:53.860 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:22:57.460 We need a political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:23:01.960 I did not call people who were unvaccinated names.
00:23:09.520 The Prime Minister lied, and his minions continue to lie.
00:23:14.980 You're for everything you did.
00:23:17.700 Thank you to put your life on the line for us.
00:23:21.300 You're one of the greatest women I ever met in my life.
00:23:24.800 I feel because you all will have implants.
00:23:27.820 I can measure your brainwaves, and I can immediately tell you how the people react, or I can feel
00:23:35.660 how the people react to your answers.
00:23:39.680 Oh, no, Mr. Bond.
00:23:42.700 And I expect you to be chipped.
00:23:46.040 I'm a liberal and a proud socialist, Mr. Speaker.
00:23:49.020 This is a Manchurian candidate.
00:23:51.460 For people who don't understand the expression, and I'm not talking about the movie, 0.99
00:23:54.120 I'm referring to somebody who can be used as a useful idiot by another country 0.99
00:23:58.040 to come out and spout these things off. 1.00
00:24:00.020 He is a Marxist.
00:24:01.420 End your silence.
00:24:04.680 Speak up.
00:24:06.860 For God's sake, stop complying.
00:24:10.060 Start rebelling.
00:24:11.540 They're out to get you if you do not resist.
00:24:17.000 Good buddy, mercy sakes alive, looks like we've got us a convoy.
00:24:22.360 Canadian country singer Paul Brandt here.
00:24:24.800 I've been listening with my wife and two kids, and we want to say thank you for all you're
00:24:28.660 doing in defense of civil liberties and freedom.
00:24:30.720 I'll ask the question I posed to you at the start of my round.
00:24:34.260 Will you apologize on behalf of the government for this outrageous invite?
00:24:39.300 Stand by the invitation.
00:24:42.640 Of course, what I said in my initial call.
00:24:46.860 You have no shame.
00:24:47.860 Oh my heavens.
00:24:49.500 There is nothing, nothing they fear like the crystal clear sound of someone somewhere telling
00:24:55.960 the truth.
00:24:56.420 So it will be a world integrating so physical, biological and digital dimensions.
00:25:06.140 So it will be a new world.
00:25:07.840 Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, because I can tell you, you cannot comply your way out
00:25:18.840 of a tyranny.
00:25:19.920 When did you and your government start to become so afraid of your own citizens?
00:25:39.540 And now he's calling them domestic terrorists and wants to freeze their bank accounts.
00:25:46.520 This has been absolutely outrageous.
00:25:49.160 And everybody now is starting to agree that Justin Trudeau has lost this fight.
00:25:54.880 That's the press, baby.
00:25:56.740 The press.
00:25:58.180 And there's nothing you can do about it.
00:25:59.980 Nothing.