The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - The Prime Minister continues to gaslight families.

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to the Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm

00:00:09.160 your host, Jamie Schmael, Member of Parliament for Halliburton Corps at the Legs Brock with

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00:00:20.680 be notified when new content is made available. On today's show, we are talking about Randy

00:00:25.480 Blasino. He's out of cabinet. Justin Trudeau's at a conference claiming you're a little selfish

00:00:30.260 for wanting to eat. And of course, a production cap on Canada's oil and gas industry. That and

00:00:35.380 much, much more. We bring on Pat Kelly, the Member of Parliament for Calgary Rocky Rates. Thanks for

00:00:39.680 coming on the show. My pleasure, Jamie. Good to be here. It's been a while. I do apologize. Oh,

00:00:43.900 a little while, but good to be here today. And we're going to rock the world today. All right.

00:00:48.120 Well, Justin Trudeau's doing that himself. So last week, Randy Blasino, Mr. Other Randy guy,

00:00:53.420 co-owned a company, GHI, Global Health Imports, got a government contractor in COVID. And somehow,

00:01:03.060 through one lie after another, our team was able to uncover that he was actually co-owning the

00:01:10.140 company while he was in cabinet, which is a big wrong thing to do here. It's a big no-no for ethics

00:01:16.460 laws. Yeah. He should have been forced to resign or fired within the hour when it was discovered

00:01:23.380 that this guy was actually actively managing a business while in cabinet. I mean, that's

00:01:29.740 absolutely unacceptable. Unacceptable conduct. Unfit. He is unfit to be a member of Parliament.

00:01:37.540 That, that, or sorry, to be a member of cabinet. But that was only the beginning, Jamie.

00:01:42.080 Oh, that was the beginning.

00:01:42.720 We went from, we went from that kind of conflict of, totally unacceptable conflict of interest,

00:01:51.040 which would have been a resignable offense under any previous government. We go from that to

00:01:56.400 discovering that he has lied about his, about having Indigenous ancestry in order to try and get a

00:02:06.400 procurement contract that was specifically set aside for Indigenous-owned businesses. So they,

00:02:12.760 these guys pretended that they were a 100% Indigenous-owned business, right? Because they 1.00

00:02:19.460 only had two partners and you had to be 51% to qualify. So they ticked that box.

00:02:24.700 Bossinot had been, had a long history of, of ever shifting claims of, of Indigenous heritage. And so,

00:02:35.340 I mean, that's just, I mean, that's fraud. You're applying under a false pretense to get a

00:02:39.460 contract. And then we discover that, uh, they have the same mailing address as a known cocaine

00:02:44.900 smuggler. So, I mean, this thing is just bizarre. I mean, and this company is accused of fraud,

00:02:50.900 is accused of, uh, defrauding its customers. It's the subject of multiple, uh, lawsuits. And, uh,

00:02:58.920 you know, the real question around the firing of Randy Bossinot is why did it take so long?

00:03:03.240 Well, exactly. And, and he had no shame to your earlier point, earlier comment. He had no shame

00:03:10.380 about pushing down legitimate Indigenous-owned businesses in order to try and enrich himself.

00:03:16.280 Right.

00:03:16.520 That's unbelievable. And then we still find out his company or his co-owned company,

00:03:21.480 maybe or not, he still owns it. Who knows? Is still green lit to apply for government contracts.

00:03:26.180 Yeah.

00:03:26.380 This is unbelievable.

00:03:27.880 Totally unbelievable. I mean, this guy and this, this, this business of theirs is really just

00:03:33.020 pandemic profiteering.

00:03:34.520 Yeah, exactly.

00:03:35.180 They weren't, uh, these guys saw dollar signs at the beginning of the pandemic and, uh, tried to just

00:03:40.680 set themselves up to basically, uh, just add up and mark up prices from other, uh, sources of

00:03:46.620 procurement for, for personal protection equipment. And, uh, I mean, the whole thing was just a pack of lies.

00:03:51.640 Yeah. It is really shameful, but you're right. Uh, in, in Stephen Harper's day, a $16 glass of

00:03:57.380 orange juice gets you removed from cabinet and eventually resignation as a member of parliament

00:04:01.760 here. It's, uh, you know, have time to prove your innocence or whatever they're trying to do,

00:04:07.360 you know, get out from under this. That's, uh, unbelievable. So Justin Trudeau was out of the

00:04:12.040 country for the beginning of last week. He was at a conference in Brazil. He was, he was mixing it up

00:04:17.820 with all the, uh, the super important people, but he had time to go to a global citizen conference.

00:04:23.940 And my goodness, I can't believe what actually this guy is so out of touch from the pain he has

00:04:30.080 caused. I'm laughing just because it's so frustrating. So wait till you hear this comment.

00:04:34.240 Let's cue up cut one. This is Justin Trudeau at the global citizen conference. Play cut one.

00:04:39.240 Disruptions of the supply chain have a lot of individual citizens, voters, families really worried

00:04:46.940 that they're not able to make ends meet. And it's really, really easy when you're in a short term

00:04:53.580 survive. I got to be able to pay the rent this month. I got to be able to buy groceries for my kids

00:04:58.660 to say, okay, let's put climate change as a slightly lower priority. And that's something

00:05:07.500 that's instinctive. When the storm comes, you want to hunker down and just sort of huddle up and wait

00:05:11.900 for it to blow over. We can't do that around climate change. Oh my goodness.

00:05:19.260 How dare you little people be so selfish and want to eat and, and shelter yourself and your family.

00:05:25.860 You are just not getting, you know, the, the super smart people way of thinking that you should

00:05:31.600 sacrifice and not eat for the greater good. This is incredible. Yeah. And this, the, you know,

00:05:37.740 and the whole, that whole nonsense clip even begins with a false premise that there is some kind of

00:05:45.380 just immediate short term problem going on in Canada. This government has presided over a nine

00:05:53.180 year decline in living standards in Canada. Per capita GDP is lower now than it was nine years ago when

00:06:01.120 they took office. We are not inside some just short term this month crisis that, that people should

00:06:08.620 be expected to, uh, to get over. This is systemic now. Canadians are getting poor while liberal insiders

00:06:15.060 are getting richer. That's right. Now, yeah, you're right. Actually, you bang on too. The problems are

00:06:19.620 baked in at this point with carbon tax increases set to happen, capital gains taxes, other taxes. Uh,

00:06:26.160 you know, we're not building stuff in this country anymore. We have a election that just passed in

00:06:31.060 the U S that's going to try to, uh, put up some pretty, pretty interesting barriers that are going

00:06:36.960 to hurt Canadian businesses. And this, and this prime minister and this liberal government has made

00:06:41.180 us so uncompetitive. The, the investment dollars are just going to flee and they have already.

00:06:46.460 Yeah. I mean, we've, uh, we've seen this, uh, especially in the oil and gas sector where capital flight,

00:06:51.880 uh, has been going on for years and years and years. There is now a, a nearly half trillion

00:06:57.700 dollar investment deficit between, uh, uh, money invested from the United States in Canada versus

00:07:03.060 Canadian money going to the U S it's a half trillion dollar deficit in favor of the United

00:07:08.580 States. That's money that's been sucked out of Canada, uh, and taking jobs and living standards

00:07:13.800 and, um, and even the, the tax base and ability to support public services with it. Well, it's going to

00:07:19.400 get worse because now we have another attack on the oil and gas industry. We have a production cap.

00:07:25.320 So, uh, this liberal government in its infinite wisdom has decided let's attack again, one of the

00:07:33.240 remaining few anchors in our economy. Yeah. It's, uh, it's amazing what, uh, these guys, the, the

00:07:39.340 economic vandalism that these guys are capable of. I mean, they came in, brought in, uh, Bill C-69

00:07:45.860 right away, uh, a law that, that prohibits, basically prohibits, uh, large projects, uh, from,

00:07:52.140 from being, uh, from going ahead in Canada. And now on top of all that, now they're going to cap,

00:07:57.800 uh, they're calling it an emissions cap, but let's call it what it is. It's a production cap. It will

00:08:02.200 ultimately, uh, harm the industry and, and trigger, uh, investment decisions to be made in favor of other

00:08:10.080 jurisdictions that don't place these limitations on themselves. So we're not actually going to lower

00:08:14.240 emissions at all with this cap. We're just going to export our emissions and allow, uh, other

00:08:19.180 countries, uh, to, to have the production that should be going on in Canada. So this is just one

00:08:24.960 more way in which this government is letting everyone from, you know, Putin, uh, and, uh, and

00:08:31.260 dictators, uh, throughout the world, uh, to benefit from, from our restrictions in our industry and take

00:08:38.900 up the slack without the same standards, environmental standards and, and emissions.

00:08:43.840 I mean, there are, there are many other elements to, uh, to environmental regulation too. And Canada

00:08:48.880 is a world leader in, uh, in, in what we do. Uh, innovation is driving down emissions per,

00:08:55.360 per barrel produced, and that's going to continue to take, to take place if, uh, if we'll let the

00:09:00.000 industry just get on with producing a commodity that the world needs instead of just allowing

00:09:05.140 everywhere from Venezuela to Russia to, uh, to, uh, to fill, uh, take up the slack for what should

00:09:11.080 be Canadian production. Well, how many world leaders have we had right now? We had the chancellor

00:09:15.800 of Germany with the prime minister of Japan. There was another one in there, um, that came asking for

00:09:21.240 Canadian energy just a few weeks ago. We had the head of the EU saying they're going to buy American

00:09:26.940 industry. So about the prime minister's whole, whole contention that there's no business case for

00:09:31.820 this energy. I, how does he, what does he know that nobody else seems to know? Well, he's the guy

00:09:37.780 killing the business case. I mean, the, the business case is there, if not for the regulation

00:09:43.820 that this prime minister imposes that, that kills off, uh, production and drives investment away from

00:09:49.940 Canada into other, uh, energy producing jurisdictions. So yes, there is a clear, clear need globally for

00:09:56.940 the, the, uh, the, uh, the energy products that, that we produce in Canada. And it's about time we

00:10:02.160 had a government that would, uh, would, that would stop making things worse, stop harming the industry

00:10:07.680 that really is the backbone of the Canadian economy and the backbone of the, of the Canadian government

00:10:13.480 and national, the governments across Canada, their, uh, their, um, taxation base that funds public

00:10:19.920 service. And one of the areas or sectors always that is, is targeted for, for lowering emissions

00:10:27.720 is the transportation sector. And up until Justin Trudeau and his super smart administration came in,

00:10:34.980 it used to be well known that government would set the targets and then industry itself would work

00:10:41.480 to meet those targets. And we've talked about this many times in the show, the auto industry,

00:10:45.100 for example, they might use aluminum or one company might have a better engine or, you know,

00:10:50.520 you get the same power from a V, you know, four cylinder than you would have a V six, right? So

00:10:55.560 by setting those, those, those targets, industry meets them right now, it's shutting down the ones

00:11:02.660 that they don't like. And then government investing tax dollars into an industry that they feel is,

00:11:09.120 is the winner going forward. Yeah. Well, that's, that's a, uh, another problem that we've seen under

00:11:14.020 this government is just the, uh, uh, you know, when they, when we throw out, uh, actual subsidies

00:11:20.600 for, uh, for business activity, you know, business will do what's in the interest of their shareholder.

00:11:25.180 And if there's government money to be taken, their, their, their business model will adapt to that

00:11:29.480 and go for the, for the, for the, for the government's money. And the problem with that mentality too,

00:11:35.180 is where we get into problems that we've seen with, uh, SDTC, where, uh, in the, you know,

00:11:40.780 if you want a subsidy based economy, um, you end up with just well connected insiders that,

00:11:46.000 uh, end up getting rich while, uh, while Canada fails to actually meaningfully move the, the needle

00:11:53.780 on emissions where near the, we've just had a recent report, uh, showing that Canada is still,

00:11:58.580 uh, I think number 62 out of 67, uh, countries rated for their, uh, emissions performance. And,

00:12:05.060 um, and, and, and yet insiders get wealthy, uh, capital leaves the country and industry suffers,

00:12:12.440 uh, Canadians standards of living decline. And, um, and, and eventually we have the erosion

00:12:18.940 of the, of the base of our public services. The, the, the energy industry pays $45 billion in taxes.

00:12:25.440 That's, that is, uh, um, almost the entire, uh, uh, that's, that's far exceeds the defense budget.

00:12:33.820 It's closing in on the, um, on the, uh, health transfer to provinces. Like that's the level of,

00:12:39.960 uh, of revenue for public services that come from this industry. And this government is just,

00:12:45.200 uh, every time you turn around, it's a new thing to try and drive investment and activity out of that

00:12:50.700 sector. Yeah. Our manufacturing has been hurt because of the policies of this federal government.

00:12:55.080 We still don't have a softwood lumber deal. Mining isn't expanding at the, the rate it probably

00:13:00.320 should. Now we have a production cap on oil and gas. This is one hammer to the economy after another.

00:13:07.500 These are some pretty big players and a lot of employers, uh, out there on the, in, in the

00:13:12.320 spin-off jobs associated with these industries. Yeah. There's only one solution and that's an

00:13:16.120 election. I mean, we need to change a government as soon as possible to, uh, to reverse this and

00:13:20.000 start to get serious about productivity in Canada so that we can get money invested back into

00:13:25.040 Canadian jobs, back into Canadian living standards and back into Canadian public services.

00:13:29.580 And the government out of the way. And we've said it before, I'll quickly say this is, you know,

00:13:34.580 you want to look at an industry, a sector that is doing well because the government is for the

00:13:39.280 most part out of the way. Look at the beer industry, look at the music industry, right? Those industries

00:13:43.320 are able to flourish because of innovation. You look at where the government has the tightest grip,

00:13:48.620 it's where the people are the most unhappy because they have a lack of choice and a lack of,

00:13:53.040 uh, you know, better products or service. The telecommunications, he can name one airlines

00:13:57.580 to a certain extent as well. Um, we're pretty much out of time, but as you know, the guests get the

00:14:02.320 last word. So the floor is yours. Well, thanks. It's always a pleasure to be on the show. And as I

00:14:07.380 said, it really is time for a carbon tax election. Canadians are fed up with this government. Uh, they

00:14:13.500 are fed up with the, the kinds of corruption that we've seen where insiders, where we have, you know,

00:14:19.420 cabinet ministers running their own, uh, managing, actively managing the affairs of their own,

00:14:23.960 their own businesses from the cabinet table. Um, we need to, uh, to, to stop this ongoing pattern

00:14:30.800 where Canadian living standards go down while liberal insiders get rich.

00:14:35.960 I couldn't agree with you more. Pat Kelly, member of parliament for Calgary Rocky Ridge. Appreciate your

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The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - December 04, 2024

The Prime Minister continues to gaslight families.

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