00:00:00.000Hello and welcome back to the Blueprints, Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm your host,
00:00:10.820Jamie Schmell, Member of Parliament for Halliburton-Kawortha Lakes. I did have Brock in my
00:00:15.600riding. Since the election, I've now lost Brock Township, but I have the one and only Larry Brock
00:00:21.840as the guest, the first guest after the last election. Larry Brock, the Member of Parliament
00:00:27.720for Brantford, Brant South, Six Nations, also the Critic for Justice. Thank you for coming on.
00:00:33.860Honour and privilege to be the first guest of the 45th Parliament.
00:00:38.260The Brockinator is in studio. He's ready to go. We did actually have a bit of a break
00:00:44.040just before the election and a whole bunch of things happened other than the election.
00:00:50.120The studio was taken on the road, so it was dismantled and there wasn't the ability to have
00:00:56.100new content continually posted, but we are back. Parliament's back in session. We elected
00:01:02.340the new speaker yesterday. We heard from the King and the speech from the throne a little while ago,
00:01:08.520so the wheels are in motion in Parliament, so to speak. And now we, as the official opposition,
00:01:14.740although the election wasn't exactly how I think you and I and many of our viewers and listeners
00:01:20.140wanted. We, we are going to serve as His Majesty's loyal opposition and probably the first thing that
00:01:27.820we're going to ask questions about, among many, is the fact that Mark Carney, during the whole election
00:01:35.340campaign, was Mr. Talk Tough. He went on and on and in length about that. Meanwhile, he meets with his
00:01:43.200Cabinet and secretly removes the reciprocal tariffs, you know, assigned to the United States, leaving a
00:01:52.740$20 billion hole or a potential $20 billion hole in estimates on government budgeting. But he went on
00:01:59.960the very next day after knowingly removing them in secret, those tariffs, and talking about how he's
00:02:05.660implementing tariffs and the only person that can stand up to Donald Trump, and that was during a
00:02:10.600leader's debate. This is absolutely incredible, the length this guy goes, to tell one, one thing after
00:02:16.540another that is not true. And Jamie, to your point, this is not the, the first time that he has
00:02:23.540deliberately misled Canadians. He was doing that literally throughout the election, even before the
00:02:30.200election. He was caught in a number of, of outright lies or mistruths, however you want to phrase it.
00:02:36.340But this information could have been a game changer during the election, because the, the whole strategy
00:02:45.280of the Liberal Party and Mark Carney was to instill a sense of fear. We opted for optimism and hope. He
00:02:54.340was running on a, on a platform of fear, and that he was the only person with the experience and the
00:03:02.340know-how. And the diplomatic prowess to, to stand up to a bully like Donald Trump. Elbows up, two elbows down.
00:03:12.280And, and to your point, the fact that he has now missing $20 billion, probably explains why he's not in a rush to give us a spring budget, which traditionally we have at this time of year.
00:03:26.340Yeah. And, and, and we're looking at the fall, I guess the finance minister came out finally after public pressure, I'm, I'm guessing, or some, maybe some common sense that, yeah, maybe after
00:03:36.280campaigning that, you know, this guy, Mark Carney was, was the be all and end all and the financial genius, that, yeah, maybe we should tell Canadians
00:03:46.220our roadmap. And that would be outlined in the budget. So we should probably have that soon. Again, considering since they campaigned the whole time about being the party with a plan.
00:04:04.220And they've immediately backtracked on it. If the, the estimates are true, if we are looking at a $20 billion hit on top of what they're already deficit spending, Mark Carney could blow through Chrystia Freeland's, you know, financial, fiscal guidelines that she talked about.
00:04:21.160No guardrails at all. It's, it's wide open and it's speculation at best as to where this is going to land, but this is not good news for this country following an election.
00:04:34.120And, and how he's going to make up that $20 billion deficit remains to be seen, but God forbid that we're looking at additional taxes. It's got to come from somewhere.
00:04:43.800Well, we could have that roadmap. Of course, they're the party with the plan. So they said, we could have that roadmap. There, there's nothing saying that we have to sit from May till mid to late June.
00:04:57.500Pierre Polyev said during the campaign, MPs don't plan on a vacation this summer. You're working all the way through. And I think we are fine with that.
00:05:06.220Yeah. But Mark Carney says, no, no, I need that summer vacation. And he's, he's going to rise parliament as per the usual schedule, mid to late June, without, again, tabling a budget before he, he adjourns the house. Yes.
00:05:21.520The government can keep going. Yeah. Well, let's face it. We've been off since the middle of December. We all left for our Christmas break with every expectation.
00:05:30.800We are returning towards the end of January to resume the 44th parliament. Justin Trudeau decides to resign, a selfish choice on, on his part, his decision. But in addition to that, that, that triggered obviously the, the, the, the election of, of a new leader of the party, again, solely at the decision making of the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau.
00:05:55.540So we lost precious time to get back to work. And, uh, here we are now, the, uh, end of May, uh, literally we could probably sit until the 20th or the 25th of, of June and, and then, uh, then we break for the summer.
00:06:11.540Sure. So I'm hearing from my constituents. I'm sure you are as well. And from constituents right across this country, you know, name one profession in the public or, or private sector where you have a break of almost six months long.
00:06:25.560Okay. And then you work for three or four weeks and then you take another significant break until the end of September. Canadians voted for change. They voted us back into the house to do the necessary work to make this country more resilient and more productive and to deal with the challenges that are still facing Canadians.
00:06:50.420Yeah. We still have challenges from the last 10 years. Absolutely. We still have the affordability crisis, the housing crisis, the productivity crisis, the crime and chaos crisis, right? Where is the plan?
00:07:02.300What are we going to do in the next three weeks, three and a half weeks to substantially address that? Very little will be done.
00:07:10.980In fact, I have heard from my liberal sources that the only priority that Carney and his government has is to make that 1% tax cut to the middle class. That is their sole priority. You know, we need to get things done in this country. We need to restore community safety. What are they going to do in the next three weeks?
00:07:32.840Yes. So the new cabinet looks a heck of a lot like the old cabinet.
00:07:38.040It does indeed. Even though we were told again, we were told all election, it's, you know, did they switched out the bus driver. It's the same bus company, same bus route, same bus, but it's different somehow, somehow.
00:07:50.640Then they throw in the new cabinet after the election. It's the same faces that brought us the misery of the last 10 years. So, you know, you bring in a justice minister, the Sean Frazier, who broke housing and broke immigration.
00:08:04.620You have a housing minister from British Columbia that was responsible for some of the highest housing prices in Canada, if not, you know, some parts of the world.
00:08:14.680The list just keeps going on about the failures. We're not going to get any better, despite the fact that we have a new bus driver.
00:08:25.540It's the same thing. And not only that, Sean Frazier, the justice minister, wants to solve the crime and chaos from a laptop in his living room.
00:08:34.040You know, I was absolutely gobsmacked when I heard that coming from him.
00:08:38.800Now, you got to remember, and I'm sure you do, and I'm sure many listeners, watchers of this program will remember, Sean Frazier wanted to resign from politics so that he could spend more time with his family, right?
00:08:53.060That was the overriding message. Of course, that changed when Carney becomes the leader.
00:09:01.060And all of a sudden, you know, he could find some time to be away from his family to get back into government.
00:09:08.300So, you know, the attorney general and the justice minister is a very significant portfolio.
00:09:14.900It requires boots on the ground. It requires you to see the circumstances that are existing.
00:09:22.320It requires people to talk with justice partners from across this country, talk with police officials, etc.
00:09:29.640You can do a little bit of that via Zoom, but you don't have the same ability to see what's going on in our courtrooms.
00:09:37.800And that's something that's near and dear to my heart.
00:09:40.800I can't remember, maybe apart from the last female Indigenous justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould,
00:09:48.480the last time they actually hired someone who had criminal law experience.
00:09:55.660Now, we know that Mr. Frazier is a lawyer, but he's a corporate lawyer, and he spent probably no more than a year and a half to two years
00:10:04.500working at a significant downtown Bay Street law firm that probably practiced no criminal whatsoever.
00:10:13.740We had the same thing with David Lometti.
00:10:15.900You know, you need to have a feel of what it's like to be in the trenches so that you can appreciate the challenges
00:10:24.040and the obstacles that victims are facing, that police officers are facing,
00:10:30.300the frustrations of judges in terms of significant penalties that they wish they could have
00:10:37.680to make sentences more meaningful that are simply not there.
00:10:41.740You need to be part of seeing the problem to be part of the solution.
00:10:47.720That can't be done from the comfort of your own home in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
00:10:54.620So with all due respect to his family, I'm sure they love the idea of having the husband and the father back at home.
00:11:01.760But this country in that particular portfolio demands so much more.
00:11:07.000But wait, the Liberals will tell you they now have a Minister of State for combating crime.