The Blueprint: Canada's Conservative Podcast - Trudeau’s continued failures made life more difficult for Canadians.

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

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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 0.96

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 0.76

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.84

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 0.74

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 1.00

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

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

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