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In this episode of The Blueprints, Conservative MP Michael Barrett talks about Mark Carney taking his company out of Canada, away from the prying eyes of Justin Trudeau, and also the ongoing Indigenous procurement scandal continues to heat up.
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Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast, right here
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when they subscribe and be notified every time new content is posted. I'm your host, Jamie Schmell,
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Member of Parliament for Halliburton Corps at the Lake Sprock, and today we have a barn burner of
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a topic. We are going to talk about Mark Carbontax Carney taking his company out of Canada, away from
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the prying eyes of Justin Trudeau, and also the Indigenous procurement scandal continues to heat
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up. To talk about this and much, much more, we bring on Michael Barrett, the Member of Parliament for
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Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Island, and Rideau Lakes. Thank you. I always get that wrong. Ethics critic
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as well. Thanks for coming on the show. Yeah, pleasure to be on and have a chat about some of
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the many, many liberal scandals. All right, well, let's, the most incredible one, well, there's lots
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of incredible ones, but the one I find just incredibly laughable, I should say, is the fact
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that Mark Carbontax Carney has decided to move his company to New York and out of Canada. I guess taxes
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were too high for him. Yeah, this is, this is pretty laughable. Justin Trudeau names him to be
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part of this, you know, advisory panel to, to chart a path forward for the failing and flailing
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Liberals, and Carney's the only one on it, so it's a, it's a panel of one. And he cashed in a bunch of
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favours for himself, changes to mortgage rules, which will benefit, you know, one of his holdings,
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which is Canada's second largest private mortgage insurer. For his friend, the owner of Telesat
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got him a $2.14 billion loan to do something that will probably never happen, but it'll cost
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much more than it would to just, you know, get existing products on the market to, to, to solve
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that, like, like Starlink, for example. And you had a great tweet with Elon Musk talking about that,
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asking Elon, and he responded, how much would that normally cost to connect everyone in Canada?
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And the response was about half. Yeah, he said, he said less than half. Yeah. And, and like,
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that's, that's common sense. We need things that are actually going to connect Canadians now,
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not pay for something that might someday put some satellites into space, and then people would
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still need to buy, you know, the hardware for their houses. So, so Carney's cashing in all these
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favours right away after he gets named to this panel. In exchange, he does some fundraising for the
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Liberals. And then he announces that, that the company that he's chair of is, is pulling its
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headquarters out of Canada and taking the jobs with it and going to, going to Wall Street. And
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that's, you know, that's exactly where carbon tax Carney feels most comfortable. It's, it's not on
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Main Street with, with Canadians who are suffering from the carbon tax on everything that, that he and
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Justin Trudeau are promoting here. It's the, it's the Wall Street elite in New York City, where,
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where Justin Trudeau's top advisor is getting his advice. Yeah. And we have a nice shiny new condo
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there, a $9 million condo that maybe Mark Carney can take a look at Tom Clark's new digs. I, you know,
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I imagine that, that billionaire row spot for Justin Trudeau's media pal, Tom Clark,
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uh, that Canadians paid $9 million for is, uh, is not going to be where, uh, uh, carbon tax
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Carney stays. Um, but I imagine Canadians will one way or another foot the bill for maybe,
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maybe there'll be neighbours. Maybe, maybe, maybe there'll be neighbours. Yeah. Cause Mark Carney
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isn't, you know, talking to people suffering, right? Like he takes his company out, uh, encourages
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us to all pay more taxes. And he's a big promoter of the carbon tax. None of it affects his bottom
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line. None of it affects what he eats or the car he drives or, you know, where his kids go to school,
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if he has any, um, they're just not impacted by these decisions, but we all have to live by his,
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his rule, right? Yeah. And, and his investment portfolio includes major holdings in coal.
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Yeah. And, uh, and this is a guy who wants to, Canadians to pay more to, um, to heat their homes,
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to feed their families. Um, you know, just this week, uh, there's, there's numbers out about, uh,
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about Ottawa, which, you know, bear, bear out across Canada. It supports what stats can said
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in August. That's one in four Canadians, uh, are, are going to be using a food bank, uh, this fall.
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That's unbelievable. The unemployment rate isn't 25%. So that means that you've got, you know,
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you've got millions of Canadians who are working, but still can't make ends meet. And now they're
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lined up at food banks. And the, and this is a direct result of taxing farmers who grow the food,
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truckers who move the food, grocers who sell it, and it's a tax on the people who buy it.
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So the indigenous procurement program continues to come under fire. And for good reason, we have
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the employment minister and his buddy, Mr. Anderson, Stephen Anderson, who apparently are
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claiming they are wholly indigenous owned, but we can't seem to figure out which one of the two.
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There's two coal, maybe a third. There might be the other Randy. Could be the other Randy.
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Maybe three. Okay. We, we still haven't determined. Maybe the other Randy is indigenous,
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indigenous, but it is a envelope of, of contracts. About 5% of total government contracts are allotted
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to indigenous owned businesses, right? So, um, those are the ones that are just starting up in
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many cases, but don't have the resources to write the contracts. The big companies do the
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applications. Um, so somebody checked the box inside global health imports when they filled out
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one of their applications that they are indigenous owned. And thankfully they did not get the money,
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but at the same time, they were okay with pushing down indigenous owned businesses in order to
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enrich themselves. Yeah, this is exactly right. This is Justin Trudeau's minister from Edmonton,
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Alberta, Randy Boissoneau and his business partner. They were, they were 50, 50 owners in this
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company, Global Health Imports. Now, Randy doesn't own it anymore. Um, Minister Randy doesn't own it
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anymore because he, he, he, he collapsed his shares in the business on the eve of his appearance, uh,
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before the ethics committee, once we found him out. And now I'll note that this past weekend,
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Randy Boissoneau apologized for, you know, for saying he was indigenous when he's not. So he's saying
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that he's not, but he blames his business partner. And these two have this funny relationship where they
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were sharing all the profits, but, but, uh, Justin Trudeau's minister, Randy Boissoneau doesn't want
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to share any of the blame. He doesn't want to share blame for, um, falsely saying that it was
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an indigenous owned company trying to, uh, you know, um, disenfranchise actual indigenous owned
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companies. Um, he does, he, he, he said he didn't know that his business partner had applied for
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government of Canada contracts while he owned 50% of the company while he was sitting at the cabinet
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table and they did get a contract with Elections Canada. I'm sure that, um, when Elections Canada is
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picking or other government departments are picking from prospective vendors, um, having one of the
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co-owners of a company sitting around the cabinet table, it's probably a safer bet, uh, for them
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knowing that, uh, that's who, you know, approves, uh, approves their budgets and the like. Um, and he
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said, well, he didn't have anything to do with that. He also said he didn't communicate. Randy Boissoneau
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said he didn't communicate with his business partner while he was in cabinet. But then these text
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messages came out and they, they talk about, uh, between Steven Anderson and Randy Boissoneau,
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and they say, uh, and, and his business partner said, well, it wasn't that Randy. Um, that's an
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autocorrect. All nine times? All nine times. And now, and now there's more text messages that have
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come out in, in court filings because this company's being sued more than a half a dozen times for, uh,
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for fraud, alleged fraud. And, uh, some of which includes a warehouse fire, a suspicious warehouse fire
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that remains, um, unsolved, um, unsolved by the, the Edmonton police. Um, and, uh, and we now learn
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that Randy Boissoneau did in fact talk to his business partner while he was at a cabinet retreat.
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So, um, um, quite literally at the cabinet table, he's directing his business. And if none of that,
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uh, if none of that sets off any alarm bells, there was reporting today that, that Randy Boissoneau's,
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uh, and his business partner's company, um, shared business, uh, you know, uh, they shared an address
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with an alleged cocaine smuggler. And this is unbelievable that this is who Justin Trudeau
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has put in cabinet and keeps in cabinet. And so of course, of course, Randy Boissoneau should resign.
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A glass of orange juice costs a conservative cabinet minister, her seat and her cabinet post.
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But meanwhile, we have all of these things and the liberals are going to the barricades to,
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to defend one of their own, which like we know, Jamie, that this is, this is, uh, par for the
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course for them. Yep. They look out for liberal insiders and they expect Canadians to pick up the
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bill. And it's always the same thing, right? It's not happening. You guys are crazy. Look the other
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way. Okay. Maybe it's happening a little, but you guys are still crazy. Okay. It's happening a lot,
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but we're not going to talk about it, right? We're, we're somewhere at the beginning, right?
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They're denying it, but it's starting to admit that maybe something a little bit shady was
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happening. Anybody else should be fired. Anybody else in private sector or otherwise would lose
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their job if they did this. Yeah, absolutely. When you, when you tell that many lies, uh, there,
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there are consequences with your, you know, with your employer and, um, and look,
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Bosnow and his business partner, Anderson came before a parliamentary committee and they said
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things that aren't true. Um, they made applications to the government that, that were intentionally,
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intentionally misstated, um, the facts and they have connections and involvement with people who are,
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uh, in, who are alleged to be involved in very serious criminal activity. And, um, again,
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can you, I, I just can't think of a private sector employer who would have one of these people sitting
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around, uh, you know, the table in the C-suite, but meanwhile, that's who Justin Trudeau, um, that's
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who Justin Trudeau picks to, to help lead this country. And, uh, it's no wonder, it's no wonder
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that housing starts are down. It's no wonder that the dream of home ownership, um, you know, feels like
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it's been destroyed for so many young Canadians. It's no wonder that food bank use has reached, um, record
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highs. You know, it's no wonder that the Canadian dollar is, is plumbing depths that haven't been
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seen in, in decades. And that's, that's nine years of, of Justin Trudeau and, and the NDP liberal
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government. And they still have no plan for the economy, especially with changes on the U.S. side.
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We have a president that is, is fairly aggressive in terms of, uh, bringing investment and jobs back
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to the U.S. But the, but Justin Trudeau continues to turn a blind eye, right? They, they continue to hamper
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our energy industry. We still don't have a softwood lumber deal. And, and the list goes
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on. Like we are not a competitive country under these liberals. Well, that's right. And, you
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know, uh, Pierre Polyev said it best when, you know, Donald Trump is, is going to think
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that Justin Trudeau is auditioning for the job of cabinet secretary for job creation down
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in the United States, because, you know, the carbon tax alone is enough to, to scare away
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investment or drive it down, uh, to, to the United States. But, you know, uh, capping production
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in our natural resource sector. Um, these are the decisions that, that Justin Trudeau and
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his, and his government are making all the while the United States are looking to, to sharpen
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their pencils and, you know, create, you know, create jobs, attract jobs, retain them. And
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it seems like it's the farthest thing from concern for, for Justin Trudeau, but that's because
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he doesn't feel the effects of, of his disastrous economic vandalism. And it's Canadians who pay
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the price. Absolutely. And especially going back to how we started, Mark Carbon Tax Carney,
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uh, also has in his portfolio, uh, investments in, uh, oil and gas in other countries, right?
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So he, he advocates for the carbon tax, hampers our ability domestically to create jobs, opportunity
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and wealth, but also cashes in on the other side when there is still demand, but the actual
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production is done elsewhere, right? So you, you hamper us, allow that production continue
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or increase, and he makes money off it. That's right. Yeah. Sending, sending the hard-earned
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tax dollars of Canadians overseas to dictators to buy dirty oil instead of investing here in
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Canada in clean, ethical Canadian natural resources that would create good jobs, restore powerful
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paychecks to our country, to our citizens. And it, it, it's hard to imagine that, that they're
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doing this by accident. Right. It's all done for you. Yeah. It's being done to you, not for you.
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That's right. That's exactly right. Yeah. You know, as the ethics critic, man, this is one after the
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other. Yeah. You know, and, and I, I wish, I wish that, um, there wasn't so much to do because it
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really does, you know, it, it really is disappointing for Canadians. When I, you know, I meet people on the,
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on the street or they, they write in or call into my office and I talk to them and, and they just
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don't understand how it is that, um, that there's so many of these liberal scandals just in, in, you
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know, the, the, uh, $400 million for the green slush fund, 186 conflicts of interest. That's
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paralyzing parliament right now. The, you know, $60 million arrive scam with $20 million going to,
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to two grifters who didn't do any IT work on it. You know, that, that really upsets and frustrates
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Canadians. And you, you see the $9 million condo on billionaires row for, um, for Justin Trudeau's
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media pal, Tom Clark. And, and of course this latest scandal with, with, uh, Randy Boissoneau,
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Justin Trudeau's minister from, from Alberta. And that's, this is just, you know, we've dealt with
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all this in the last year and it's all just part of the growing list of scandals from a government
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with a prime minister twice found guilty of breaking ethics laws himself. His public safety minister
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broke ethics laws, his parliamentary secretary, now the liberal speaker, uh, broke ethics laws.
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The trade minister broke ethics laws. It's a, it's a cabinet of serial lawbreakers in a government
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that has no respect for, for Canadians. And they are big believers in big government and small
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citizens. And I, and I, and I, and I, and this is what I tell folks when I meet with them who are
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discouraged. You know, life wasn't like that before Justin Trudeau. It won't be like, it won't be like
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that after him. And that's why when, you know, when Pierre Polyev talks about, um, you know,
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small government and big citizens, I'm, I'm very optimistic and hopeful, you know, for, for our
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We have some clips. I totally forgot to play them, but let's play them quickly. And then,
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so we'll queue up cut two, and then we will, um, get your closing thoughts. Play cut two.
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The prime minister wants his buddy, Mark Carbon Tax Carney's company to be in charge of 10 billion
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of Canadians' pension dollars. Now, he doesn't want him to be subjected to any of the conflict
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of interest rules. All the power, all the money, none of the accountability. Why don't they
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When it comes to Canadians who disagree with their vision of the country, instead of allowing
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for that disagreement to happen, they attack them personally and try to bring them down.
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The Conservatives only have one objective, and that's to tear down Canadians who don't
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That answer is bizarro, worlds, because we remember the Canada summer jobs and the attestation
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that certain groups had to check and adhere to. The values test, right? This is unbelievable.
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Anyway, the floor, so are you going to respond to that or close it at any point?
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No, look, this is, this is exactly right. And when I listed, you know, Carbon Tax Carney's,
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favours that he looked to cash in in the days after he was named Justin Trudeau's economic
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advisor. And he did it in a way, Jamie, so that, so that Carney could avoid all of the
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conflict of interest rules. So he appointed him through the Liberal Party instead of, you
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know, through the Prime Minister's office. And so this is, this is to shield him from,
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from accountability. Meanwhile, in that example, the one I didn't mention previously, Carney
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lines up his company, Brookfield, to get their hands on, you know, 10 billion Canadian tax
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dollars. Like this, this is unbelievable. It's all about helping Liberal elites. And so
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they're, they're rewarding and they're lining the pockets of their well-connected friends.
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And the Liberals, you know, want to say that this is, you know, about, you know, personalities
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or, or, you know, us, us being hard on people. Canadians have had a really hard time over the
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last nine years with the NDP Liberals. And they expect that, that we're going to put our elbows
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up and that we're going to fight for accountability and, and restore that promise
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of Canada. And so, you know, they can, the, the government house leader who answered in
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the video there, she can sound as disappointed as she wants, but the, if they want to hear
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disappointment, they should have a conversation with Canadians on the street who are really
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hurting after nine years of their, their economic vandalism and policies of destruction.
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I'm sorry. Your file is so busy, but I'm more upset at what they're doing to Canadians than
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the average everyday person who is struggling. So thank you very much for joining us. I do
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appreciate that. We had some other material we didn't get to. We'll have you back another
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time. Michael Barrett, the member of parliament for Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands, and Reno
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Lakes, also the ethics critic. Appreciate his time. Appreciate yours as well. Check out his
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social media as well. He's got a fantastic social media. If you're not already following
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