The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - August 03, 2022


Trudeau’s continued failures made life more difficult for Canadians.


Episode Stats

Length

22 minutes

Words per Minute

160.03192

Word Count

3,610

Sentence Count

244

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

In this episode, Conservative MP Kelly McCauley joins me to talk about all the things the Liberals have been trying to do this summer, and how they are doing it. We cover corruption, police interference, border problems, the Arrival Can app, and much more.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome once again to The Blueprints. This is Canada's Conservative Podcast. I'm
00:00:09.840 your host, Jamie Schmael, member of Parliament for Halliburton, who likes Brock with new
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00:00:36.580 not getting in the mainstream media. So today's show, lots of great content lined up for you.
00:00:42.060 I'm bringing back a good friend, Kelly McCauley, member of Parliament from Edmonton West. He's
00:00:45.960 also the critic for the Treasury Board. We're kind of going to summarize everything that's
00:00:51.520 been happening this summer. There's been a lot, and we're going to try to bring it all
00:00:56.360 together, because we have corruption, we have police investigation interference, we have
00:01:01.680 chaos under airports, the arrive can app passports. We have issues left, right and centre with
00:01:08.300 the attack on farmers, the 30% plan to reduce fertilizers on their crops, and so much more.
00:01:17.440 So Kelly, come on in, bring into this discussion, because we have a lot to talk about.
00:01:21.280 Awesome. Thanks, Jamie. It's a pleasure to be back. I don't know how we're going to get through
00:01:26.260 all of the Liberal incompetence and mess in 12 minutes. Perhaps if we just focused and took
00:01:31.360 about 15 seconds, we could focus on what the Liberals have succeeded on this summer instead.
00:01:36.340 Well, we have a lot of content to fill, a lot of dead air. So let's start with tourism, right? It's
00:01:42.460 tourist season, the warm weather, people are out and about, but yet our airports are a mess,
00:01:47.980 Canadians can't get a passport, and the arrive can app is just putting enormous pressure on our
00:01:54.360 border services. The officers are just under undue stress, because people are frustrated
00:01:58.640 at the whole app. We have tourism operators saying, get rid of it. We have issues that it's not working.
00:02:04.460 People with cell phones don't have the app, being told to quarantine despite vaccination status and
00:02:09.980 vaccine, double, triple, you name it. This is an entire mess, all created by the government.
00:02:15.340 No, I agree. And I was questioning, I grew up in the tourism business, 35 years in hotels. I've spoken
00:02:23.360 to a lot of my former workmates and colleagues across the country, especially the large hotels
00:02:29.060 in major cities, they're losing conferences. They're losing the opportunity to even bid on conferences
00:02:35.240 coming in from the US because of the arrive can, because of the mess at the airports. And these are
00:02:41.220 big money events that create a lot of work in our cities, creates a lot of work in our restaurants,
00:02:50.120 creates work for our cabbies, and it's disappearing because of arrive can, the government's inability
00:02:57.540 to get the borders set properly so people can show up at Pearson and perhaps get into Toronto before
00:03:05.520 their lineup ends. It's a mess right now. I've chatted with some resort owners in your neck of
00:03:15.180 the woods, and they're saying their US visitors have dropped off massively when this is normally
00:03:21.040 high season for them, where they're getting top dollar. They are not seeing the people coming up
00:03:26.540 from the States because it's the same thing. The Americans do not want to mess around, perhaps be
00:03:32.840 delayed, perhaps not being able to board a plane because they haven't got the arrive can working
00:03:37.620 properly. Two years of lockdowns, people are finally saying, we're able to travel again, we're able to
00:03:43.700 get out and about. And of course, many locations you need a passport. And we've saw the disaster, which
00:03:50.720 was the Service Canada offices, the passport offices this past spring, they're not getting much better
00:03:56.820 there. I think they're a little better. The Liberals have created a cabinet task force to deal with the
00:04:01.620 problem. But not only that, what did they get for the people lining up in Montreal? The government is
00:04:06.180 so thoughtful and caring. They bought chairs for the people waiting outside and camping overnight.
00:04:13.480 That is their solution appears to be across the country is not to get the passport workers back in
00:04:20.360 their offices, not to open up on weekends, after hours. It's to buy 801 chairs, plastic chairs,
00:04:29.240 ergonomic plastic chairs to put outside the Montreal passport office. In Edmonton, they are lining up in
00:04:37.560 downtown Edmonton at 1230 in the morning, just to get in line for their passport. It's ridiculous. And we
00:04:48.740 brought this to the attention. I remember standing up in House of Commons in March, mentioning how Service
00:04:54.240 Canada was making Edmontonians wait in minus 20 snowstorm outside, because they only had one wicked
00:05:02.640 open in the whole office. They've had months, documents have come out that the government knew
00:05:09.600 about this. A good six months ago, it was going to be a disaster. Well, how could you not if you're
00:05:15.120 opening up? How could you not anticipate this? Because it's the Liberal government. I don't think
00:05:23.360 they would anticipate sunrise each day. The level of incompetence from this government, it's mind
00:05:30.620 boggling. It's difficult to put into words, just how poorly this government operates. I think unless
00:05:37.660 there's a Photoshop involved, or perhaps an apology to deliver, the government is just not interested in it.
00:05:44.260 And they just do not seem to be interested in serving Canadians. We see that at Pearson Airport,
00:05:49.940 we saw CAATSA, the people who provide the screeners. Up until April, even though documents show that
00:05:57.660 travel was doubling every month, in April, they still hadn't recalled their workers for
00:06:06.200 the airport screening. They kept all the bureaucrats employed, but the actual people doing the real work,
00:06:12.860 they left sitting at home. We still don't have all the workers back at work from handling the
00:06:18.240 passports. It's an incomprehensible mess. Wasn't the document saying upwards of 70% are still at home?
00:06:25.540 I think it's 11% to 28%. I'm hearing different numbers. Okay, still at home. I think it's 28%
00:06:31.820 of Service Canada, but 11%. And you know what, you can't sit there and put together a passport,
00:06:37.700 process a passport, sitting at home. Yeah, that's a bit of a problem.
00:06:43.480 And that's reflected in people's wait times. It's horrible. We just heard out of Manitoba,
00:06:49.360 a family of four had to cancel their entire vacation, losing tens of thousands,
00:06:55.760 because they couldn't get passport in time. And these aren't people, well, I let it expire a week
00:07:01.460 ago. These people who've been applying for it months ago, cannot get it.
00:07:07.540 Okay, so we tackled the tourism, travel and tourism industry. Let's talk about the inflation
00:07:13.540 issue that we're having right now. We brought on Adam Chambers a couple of weeks ago, the deputy
00:07:17.540 finance critic to talk about this, pushing 8% of costs of everything just cascading.
00:07:26.020 It just seems never ending. And at the same time, the energy sector has been decimated in this
00:07:32.940 country, investment is gone. We have the ability to displace some of the Russian oil and gas that has
00:07:41.240 been kind of mixed up with the conflict of Ukraine and the sanctions and what have you. But we have
00:07:46.040 the ability to, or the reserves anyways, to supply the world, but yet we have no way to get that to
00:07:52.800 market. The reason being horrible government policy. And now the solution to inflation,
00:07:59.360 according to the government is to spend more money on more projects, because things are just going so
00:08:04.500 well in other departments. That's just it. The government has a plan, $100 billion stimulus
00:08:11.280 spending. We're at almost full employment across the country. And yet the government still and 8.1%
00:08:18.760 inflation. And Christia Freeland is planning on plowing another $100 billion of stimulus into the
00:08:26.700 country. Food, I think is both food inflations. I think most recent numbers are 8.8%. And yet the
00:08:35.220 solution of the government we just saw is to force farmers to cut back on the nitrates and the
00:08:41.420 fertilizer if they can use by 30%. So at the same time, we've got, we're going to have a food crisis
00:08:47.120 around the world because of the grain and everything being held up in Ukraine because of the Russian
00:08:53.760 invasion. Canada, one of the bread baskets of the world is going to be hamstrung by the liberal
00:08:59.160 government, forcing farmers to reduce the amount of fertilizer they can use in order to grow crops.
00:09:06.020 So we're going to have higher prices, less output, and less ability to feed the world. It's,
00:09:12.880 it's insane. I have no idea who is coming up with this stuff. Like who sits in Ottawa when food
00:09:19.480 inflation is at 8.8% and thinks, geez, let's, let's cut back on the amount of fertilizers we'll
00:09:25.120 allow Canadian farmers to use. Yeah. And we'll restrict their ability to grow wheat.
00:09:30.880 Yeah. It's because I bet you some of those people in Ottawa won't be the one starving. So most Canadians
00:09:35.640 will just be poor, hungry and cold. It just seems like it's doing this on purpose. This is a government
00:09:42.080 policy, a terrible government policy being forced upon Canadian farmers by 2030. Now, of course,
00:09:48.460 they haven't come up with a plan on how they're going to do that and what that involves. But at the
00:09:52.440 same time, they're, they're setting the marker. Now we've already seen what's happening in the
00:09:55.920 Netherlands, almost 30,000 farms being told to basically reduce or change what they're doing.
00:10:02.260 And that's causing a stir with on amongst the population, because they understand how important
00:10:08.940 the Netherlands are to food, food production in Europe and a lot of parts of the world and part
00:10:15.760 of Africa, you name it. Maybe the liberals expect the farmers are going to just feed people with
00:10:21.640 good wishes and good feelings. But it's, it's, it's insane. Again, at the time where we're seeing
00:10:28.300 food inflation, 8.8% highest that we've seen since, uh, you know, 1980s and the government is
00:10:37.060 working since, you know, pure Trudeau, but we have the government actively working to make things worse,
00:10:44.580 actively working to punish Western farmers, actively working to make food more expensive.
00:10:51.460 It's like something out of a bad political novel, not to mention the carbon tax and the clean fuel
00:10:58.660 standard, which of course, fuel standards, charging farmers through the, uh, through the roof to dry
00:11:05.140 their wheat and to dry their, uh, their pulse goods. And that it's again, it all just, the government
00:11:11.620 doesn't seem to realize that these costs cascade down through the supply system and stick it to those
00:11:19.580 who are least able to afford it. Uh, absolutely. Not only that, we have veterans affairs. We have
00:11:24.560 veterans still waiting for benefits. We have a military that can't seem to buy equipment. I think
00:11:29.760 what, what are we at 10 plus years for handguns? We have immigration department that's backed up
00:11:34.580 uh, 2 million files. Now this, this is a cast talk about cascading. This is a cascading government
00:11:40.940 of failure. It truly is. You know, the, the government, when Trudeau came in in 2015, he used this,
00:11:47.040 this line open by default. I think really what they are, are incompetent by default. I can't think of
00:11:54.160 any program that they're working on right now that is working. You're right. We've got a massive
00:12:00.580 backlog for veterans affairs. We have a veterans food bank near my office in West Edmonton. I visited them
00:12:07.440 the other day. They are struggling to feed veterans who cannot get proper support from the government.
00:12:14.720 We've got again, our military, we can't buy ships, our fixed wing search and rescue planes that the
00:12:21.760 government has bought will not be certified as $4 billion will not be certified to be able to fly
00:12:27.800 in Canada. After it's $4 billion, $4 billion for 18 planes, politically motivated purchase to give
00:12:36.120 certain jobs in liberal held areas. But so messed up by this government, there's strong word out there
00:12:44.200 that these planes will never be able to fly in Canada. We are, you know, a country surrounded by,
00:12:50.840 you know, three large bodies of water. We will not have the ability to perform search and rescue
00:12:57.480 missions on the Pacific Ocean up north or the Atlantic. What about shipbuilding? Where are we in
00:13:05.320 that? Well, that's one of our successes. We're only delayed a couple of decades with shipbuilding and
00:13:12.440 probably, you know, $50, $60 billion above budget. But it's the same thing. There's no oversight. And I think
00:13:22.280 the hallmark of this government, zero accountability. They'll go out and make wonderful announcements and
00:13:28.920 then believe that an announcement means something gets done. But it's not. Our needed supply ships
00:13:36.440 are delayed. I think it's now to 2028. They're being built around the world for about $300 million.
00:13:44.200 Ours are going to cost about $3 billion per ship by the time we're finished. Our icebreakers,
00:13:50.280 the government's building them in two different plans. One in the West Coast, one in Quebec,
00:13:56.200 which is going to add the parliamentary budget officer figures it's going to add $800, I think it's
00:14:01.000 $857 million to the cost by having it built in separate docks and separate designs.
00:14:11.560 Yeah. You would think that we'd just take one design and have them built both,
00:14:15.560 build both the same design, but that's, that's not what we do.
00:14:19.800 So they have to retrain. Oh my goodness. Okay. Well, this, this government is so bad at procurement.
00:14:25.960 Like, I don't believe they could go into a Tim Hortons and buy a double double, much less,
00:14:31.160 less, you know, icebreakers and warships or handguns or anything else that our men and women in
00:14:39.800 uniform need.
00:14:40.520 Well, that's, that's a big list. I, and there's even more to go. We, we can talk about the rising
00:14:49.480 crime in most of our cities. You're looking at Edmonton, that's dealing with an issue,
00:14:54.200 the, the solution there. And of course, uh, uh, is to crack down even harder on law abiding firearms
00:15:01.320 owners. And of course that will do nothing to, to stop the, the shootings that we all want to stop
00:15:07.960 in our shootings, but they, they will not go after where the problem is. The, the, the porous border,
00:15:14.280 uh, accountable sentencing instead of the revolving door justice system that we seem to be
00:15:20.040 cascading towards, uh, we should be bolstering the, uh, police services that are
00:15:27.320 tasked with reducing violent crime, but we don't seem to be doing much of anything on that front.
00:15:33.640 No, and it's remarkable. Um, we know a lot of the guns, huge majority of the guns
00:15:40.040 being used in these drive by shootings, these, these acts of violence are weapons smuggled in
00:15:45.800 from the U S and yet the liberals have no plan on addressing the smuggling, no plans on helping the
00:15:53.080 police forces deal with the gang violence across the country. Instead, what do we see? We saw that
00:15:59.000 horrible, horrible massacre in Nova Scotia. And what did the liberals do even their first instinct
00:16:09.320 is to interfere with the review and interfere with the investigation in order to push their, uh,
00:16:19.320 their gun legislation. It's, I I've seen a lot of reprehensible things done by this liberal government,
00:16:26.520 whether it's the NC Lavalin scandal, the, the weed charity, but not, I've never seen them stoop this
00:16:35.640 low to use and interfere in the investigation to push their ideology. It's, it's remarkable.
00:16:44.360 And yeah, then they'll, they'll sit in, uh, the line. We have senior RCMP officers stating
00:16:50.600 the government interfered and they'll stand on the house. We did no such thing. Uh, the RCMP must be
00:16:57.160 lied. It's remarkable. It's remarkable that the notes from different people who take pretty accurate
00:17:03.400 notes as to what's happening on the meetings, uh, seem to line up with each other and it doesn't
00:17:08.440 look good for the government in terms of who is lying and who isn't. No, I agree. And these are senior
00:17:15.240 well thought of RCMP officers who kept meticulous notes about the interference from the government
00:17:23.960 and from the RCMP commissioner, very meticulous notes as they're required to do.
00:17:30.440 And yet the government sits in, uh, says, no, not accurate. Didn't happen. Perhaps a miscommunication.
00:17:38.920 Much like, uh, the liberals, when they spoke about, uh, invoking the emergency act. Well,
00:17:44.040 it was a mis miscommunication when we said, are the, uh, the police forces asked for it.
00:17:52.600 And then it was economic was the reason which turned out to be untrue because most of the funds for
00:17:57.800 businesses that were impacted by the, uh, the, the, the, the, the protest didn't even apply for it.
00:18:04.680 I believe it was severely, uh, under, uh, applied for there was there, there was tons of money left.
00:18:11.640 The people who set that fire in that apartment building had nothing to do with the convoy.
00:18:15.480 The person standing on the tomb of the unknown soldier had nothing to do with the, the convoy.
00:18:19.800 It's just one after the other, that the, the reasons, the air fingers go reasons for invoking the emergencies act.
00:18:26.680 Just untrue, untrue, untrue.
00:18:32.520 Stephen, Stephen Colbert from the, uh, this TV show talk, talk about a lack of, uh, truthiness.
00:18:38.920 Yes. That seems to be the case here. And you can agree with the, what the truckers want with the
00:18:46.040 mandates. You can disagree with them about it. You can disagree about how they went about it.
00:18:51.560 And I can see all sides that, but you cannot agree that the government is acting properly when they
00:18:58.760 knowingly lie to Canadians. And I was in Ottawa for the whole lockdown. You know, and again, there's
00:19:06.760 many different sides to it, much like the, the old fable of the three people, blind men touching
00:19:12.440 a different part of the elephant and try explaining what the elephant is. The trucker convoy is very
00:19:16.840 similar. And again, you can disagree with their methods, agree with the however you wish, but the
00:19:23.080 government should be telling the truth to their citizens and the government knowingly lied. They lied
00:19:31.480 about, uh, truckers ransacking a CRA office. They lied about, I was in, I was in committed when we
00:19:39.000 asked the former police chief from Ottawa, did you ask for the invocation of the act? No. Did anyone
00:19:44.920 from the city of Ottawa ask? No. The current police chief, we asked, did you ask for the invocation of
00:19:51.320 the act? No. The RSMP? No. And yet Trudeau and his ministers repeatedly stood in the house and said,
00:19:58.920 we acted on, we invoked it on the request of the, um, police services. They knowingly lied
00:20:06.440 about it. And that's the shocking part of this government.
00:20:10.600 Well, we are unfortunately running out of time. There's a few more things I wanted to cover, but
00:20:15.000 I, as you, I'm going to get you to give us some good news because, and what conservatives are going
00:20:19.400 to do, how we're going to continue to fight. Because as you know, I always give the guests the last
00:20:23.640 word. So the floor is yours, Kelly McCauley. Give us some good news.
00:20:26.920 Well, good news. I am in beautiful Lindsay, Ontario in the wonderful writing, uh, represented by
00:20:34.280 Mr. Smale. The weather is beautiful. The rain has stopped and we're expecting some, uh, fantastic
00:20:40.680 weather for the next couple of days. Um, the other good news, we will have a permanent new leader
00:20:46.280 announced very shortly. We'll be back in the house in September, holding the liberals to account.
00:20:51.560 And we're starting to see the government bit by bit by bit, admit that perhaps they were wrong on
00:21:00.600 some of the mandate issues and some of the other issues. And I believe that we're going to see with
00:21:05.720 under pressure from our colleagues, the liberals backing down on some of the most egregious, uh,
00:21:11.320 acts, whether it's using the tragedy in Nova Scotia or using the pandemic for their, uh, political gains.
00:21:18.040 I think we're seeing the, uh, the end of that. And that to me is good news for people who live in
00:21:23.960 Edmonton and people live across the country. I hope so too. Kelly McCauley, thank you so much.
00:21:29.160 I appreciate your time and thanks for that quick rundown on the liberals adventures throughout the
00:21:34.440 summer and appreciate your work as treasury board critic as well. It's been my pleasure to be back with
00:21:40.440 you. I think the first time I did it, you weren't even doing camera work. It's only on, uh, only on
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