In this episode of Stand On Guard, host David Creighton talks about the importance of free speech and why it's one of the most fundamental rights in our society. He also talks about why he supported Donald Trump's campaign and why he's dedicated to defending free speech.
00:04:08.240If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish,
00:04:11.260then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple.
00:04:14.760Just like dominoes, one by one, they'll go down.
00:04:18.360That's why today I'm announcing my plan to shatter the left-wing censorship regime.
00:04:24.220And to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.
00:04:28.940And reclaim is a very important word in this case because they've taken it away.
00:04:34.320In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats,
00:04:39.820bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people.
00:04:51.740They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health.
00:04:59.920The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately.
00:05:08.280First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens.
00:05:27.460I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or dis-information.
00:05:36.280And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly,
00:05:46.540whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
00:05:56.280Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible,
00:06:08.720and to aggressively prosecute any and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified.
00:06:13.820These include possible violations of...
00:06:16.460I'll just interject here for a second.
00:06:18.700Don't you wish you heard the Conservative Party leader saying anything like this about Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act,
00:06:27.580instead of saying they're going to have their own version of it?
00:06:30.720Oh, we need to hear this in Canada desperately.
00:06:33.860Federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and antitrust laws,
00:06:42.680the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.
00:06:50.140To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters.
00:06:57.600And we have to do this right now to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant,
00:07:05.980ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.
00:07:10.140Third, upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk,
00:07:15.880revising Section 230, to get big online platforms out of censorship business.
00:07:22.800From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230
00:07:29.360if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination.
00:07:36.220We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content,
00:07:42.580such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism,
00:07:46.800while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.
00:07:53.800Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry
00:07:58.140that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called mis- and disinformation.
00:08:04.380The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits
00:08:08.060and academic programs that support this authoritarian project.
00:08:13.120If any U.S. university has discovered to have engaged in censorship activities
00:08:18.420or election interferences in the past,
00:08:22.060such as flagging social media content for removal of blacklisting,
00:08:27.580those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support
00:08:32.620for a period of five years and maybe more.
00:08:36.040We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats
00:08:41.420who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution
00:08:46.420and deprive Americans of their first, fourth, and fifth amendment rights.
00:08:52.120In other words, deprive them of their vote.
00:08:55.320And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have,
00:14:31.460And I think it I wrote it very quickly just after the election victory.
00:14:38.740And it sums up exactly why I think it was a it was a great thing for America and potentially for Canada as well.
00:14:48.620Now, let's listen to Christia Freeland here once again.
00:14:53.140And look at the fear in her eyes as she talks about, wow, the Trudeau government doesn't know what to make of this Trump victory because you expected.
00:15:21.480Didn't quite say that about Donald Trump, although he thinks that he couldn't say that because he's got to work with this guy for however long Trudeau might be in power when Donald Trump is president.
00:15:33.460Trudeau might be gone by January 2025.
00:19:26.800My intent is to offer some criticism of the status quo so that we can learn and then perhaps in question period get into some solutions.
00:19:34.940Essentially, in my opinion, strong, secure, engaged, the precursor to the current defense policy,
00:19:40.460delivered nothing substantive in terms of modern military equipment,
00:19:43.820which saw Canada in fact become weaker, more insecure, and essentially absent from the deployable stables of troops required for either the United Nations missions or, of course, NATO.
00:19:54.780The 2024 defense policy update of our North strong and free is no better, unfortunately,
00:20:02.140in that it promises some urgently needed equipment years from now, but nothing today.
00:20:07.200Indeed, the 2024 defense spend will be less than that of 2023.
00:20:11.680Okay, so Canada can't even keep its national defense going, and yet it wants to give billions of dollars to Ukraine to keep their defense going, to secure their borders.
00:20:28.560Canada is not going to be able to secure its borders when Donald Trump starts deporting tens of millions, even millions.
00:20:35.460Where do you think they're going to go?
00:20:36.440They're going to go north, and we can't even defend our own border from them, and we won't because Justin Trudeau will be out there again saying,
00:20:42.120come on, refugees of the world, come to Canada, like he said in the past.
00:20:48.600He is the grandson of two defense ministers.
00:20:52.260Yeah, he's been a lifelong liberal, but he's got the guts to condemn the Trudeau government for its absolute stupidity in defense spending.
00:21:01.160The one thing he doesn't say is Ukraine here, but it's obvious he's starting to get the message.
00:21:06.700Of course, we're well aware of what just happened down in the United States.
00:21:10.220Both Republicans and Democrats are united and increasingly vocal about telling Canada how disappointed, frustrated, and fed up they are with Canada's failure to defend itself and their allies with a special mention on the Arctic.
00:21:24.880Meanwhile, as we know, and I was involved in the last NAFTA renegotiations, that's coming due at a time when a variety of key players down south have articulated clearly the base of 3% perhaps looms on the horizon and how defense, security, trade, and border security are all intertwined.
00:21:46.280At all this time, at this time of crisis internationally with what's happening in the Middle East, in Ukraine, Canada's military readiness is at its lowest level in 50 years.
00:22:03.280Canada spent last year in 2023 more money on consultants and professional services than it did on the Army, Navy, and Air Force combined.
00:22:15.280If there's one takeaway from this message from Andrew Leslie, it's the fact that the Trudeau government spent more on consultants to tell the government what they already knew or already wanted to hear than it spends on the Army, Navy, and Air Force combined.
00:22:46.220The Army has over 50% of its vehicle fleets which are awaiting spare parts and technicians.
00:22:56.220The Navy is struggling mightily, less than to keep elderly warships, a handful of them at sea, specifically in the Indo-Pacific, and they're desperately short of trained sailors.
00:23:07.220And the Air Force has been unable to participate in significant NATO deterrent exercises either up north or out over the oceans in conjunction with our friends and allies, because they don't have the pilots, the spare parts, or the money to fly the aircraft.
00:23:21.220In the Arctic, which is many times larger than Europe, Canada has fewer than 300 military support staff who are not deterrent.
00:23:44.220The bottom line is that Canada has no permanently assigned combat elements.
00:23:51.220So, if you missed it, we've got 300 indigenous folks riding around in skidoos with a rifle by their side, defending the entire Arctic for Canada.
00:24:05.220And the Trudeau government wants to go to fight Russia?
00:24:11.220...presence by the Russians or the Chinese who are showing up in our waters with increasing frequency.
00:24:19.220Russia specifically has between 25,000 to 35,000 combat troops deployed in their Arctic with huge amounts of operational equipment, air, land, and sea.
00:24:30.220The United States, bless them, has 22,000 full-time military and part-time military professionals with more equipment than the entirety of the Canadian Forces in terms of combat delivery.
00:24:42.220So, really, thank you, America, for defending our Arctic.
00:24:47.220We are facing unprecedented dangers and challenges.
00:24:50.220And quite frankly, I see no sense of urgency to change, to modify, to re-guide the efforts of the government towards supporting and assisting the Canadian Forces.
00:25:10.220We are the only NATO nation whose level of military operational readiness is going down when everyone else is skyrocketing up.
00:25:19.220We have the longest and least efficient procurement system in NATO.
00:25:25.220Indeed, in any nation that I can find.
00:25:29.220We are the only nation in NATO that does not have a costed plan to get to 2% of GDP, which was first agreed to by Minister of Defence in 2008 and reiterate in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and I could go on.
00:25:46.220We are the only NATO nation whose defense minister has publicly admitted that he could not convince his fellow cabinet members of the importance of NATO defense spending and the 2% GDP.
00:25:58.220And as mentioned already, we're the only NATO nation whose defense budget decreased this year.
00:26:03.220Mr. Chair, I look forward to your questions.
00:26:07.220That's all I can say at the end of that as well.
00:26:09.220This is a guy who spent 30 years in the military.
00:26:12.220I didn't always agree with everything Andrew Leslie said.
00:26:15.220He certainly would have made a hell of a better defense minister than the joker they put in there, Harjit Sajjan, who did nothing for the military except disgrace it.
00:26:26.220But, of course, let's have a look at what Justin Trudeau got the situation in hand.
00:26:35.220I spoke with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
00:26:38.220We spoke about the war in Ukraine and North Korea's troop deployment in support of Russia's aggression.
00:26:43.220Canada is increasing our defense spending.
00:27:57.220Over time, Canada's total financial support to Ukraine has reached significant figures,
00:28:02.220with mentions of over $12.4 billion in various forms of assistance, including loans, humanitarian aid, and military support since January 2022.
00:28:11.220New $5 billion part of $50 billion loan.
00:28:59.220I'm going to have Viva Frey on the show next week.
00:29:12.220We don't know if it's Tuesday or Wednesday.
00:29:16.220We're going to be talking about why the Conservative Party has become the Uniparty with the Liberals on foreign policy.
00:29:23.220They're in lockstep with the Liberals on Ukraine and other foreign policy issues.
00:29:29.220And why they become the Uniparty now in misinformation and disinformation.
00:29:32.220Why are they hauling Canadian journalists in front of the Security Committee to ask them about whether they're Russian agents?
00:29:44.220This reminds me of the House Un-American Activities Committee that raged through Congress for almost 20 years.
00:29:51.220But it was at its most powerful during the 50s when they would bring witnesses in front of them and badger them to the point of tears at some point to get them to admit that they had attended a meeting at some time in their life that might have been sponsored by the Communist Party.
00:30:09.220Now, yes, communism was a menace in the 1950s, but everybody should not be tarred with the same brush.
00:30:20.220Journalists who are small-c conservatives and are involved in an indictment in the United States should not be being hauled in front of Canadian parliamentary committees and accused of being Russian spies or taking Russian money when these MPs haven't got a clue in hell whether this information is true or false.
00:30:42.220They haven't got it. All they want to do is threaten.
00:30:47.220Viva Fry writes here, there's no difference between the so-called CPC and the tyrannical Liberal Party.
00:30:54.220They are two wings of the same corrupt bird.
00:30:57.220Earlier this week, in the purest form of modern-day McCarthyism, which is what I call it, you will ever see Parliament is going after Lauren Chen.
00:31:05.220Summoning her to testify on alleged Russian government allegedly using tenant media to spread Russian propaganda to undermine the West.
00:31:17.220Listen to the idiotic diatrapes coming from so-called conservative Raquel Danko and, of course, Jennifer O'Connell from the Liberals.
00:31:30.220Apparently, Raquel and the Conservative Party have forgotten about what a bunch of lying scoundrels the Liberals are.
00:31:37.220Or maybe the Conservatives have been equal lying scoundrels the entire time.
00:31:41.220This is the absolute state of Canada. Absolute madness. Absolute madness.
00:31:48.220I showed you that clip yesterday. We're going to have David on the show next week to talk about this.
00:31:56.220Because this is a bloody disgrace to Canada and the Conservative Party is supposed to believe in free speech.
00:32:04.220Hauling these journalists in front of this committee, trying to force them to violate their own freedom of speech,
00:32:12.220to force them to violate their legal rights in front of this damned committee that's not investigating China,
00:32:21.220that's not investigating Chinese election interference,
00:32:24.220that now wants to worry about Russia, about alleged Russia trying to undermine our democracy.
00:32:32.220Not China or India, plotting horrible, nefarious, murderous schemes.
00:32:39.220It's all about India and it's about Russia. Let's not talk about China.
00:32:43.220Or as the Conservatives like to say, Beijing, Beijing.
00:32:46.220That's what they want to talk about now. Not China.
00:32:51.220And they want to put journalists in front of these committees and browbeat them and shame them
00:35:08.220In fact, I don't know any of the people who were indicted in this Department of Justice matter who were accused of taking money from Russia.
00:35:27.220You're in the power of any government when you do that.
00:35:29.220I wouldn't take money from the Canadian government because I'm not going to repeat the lies of the Liberal Party and the Trudeau government.
00:35:43.220I do know that I liked a lot of journalism they're doing and I didn't see anything in it promoting Russia or Russia undermining Canada or the United States.