The Crusty Canuck Podcast - Canada's ON-GOING Slack Defense! EP#352

00:00:00.000 a good evening ladies and gentlemen happy st patrick's day it's beautiful march 17th

00:00:05.760 2025 come with this episode of cresting up podcast episode 352 canada's ongoing slack

00:00:12.020 defense that's right mr mark carney blarney carney commie carney carbon tax carney wants

00:00:17.200 to have a good substantial review over canada's procurement of the f-35 fighter jet oh just

00:00:24.140 me thinks things were getting better according to the liberal mindset you know we gotta have

00:00:28.380 the review and compromise our defense even more because a handful of people just don't like

00:00:33.200 what's going on with the united states oh my goodness listener view discretion is advised

00:00:38.700 because i will swear smoke cigarettes and speak my mind as per you know make fun of our leaders

00:00:43.860 and all good stuff see you in a bit

00:00:46.740 get it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me

00:00:54.440 from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast a canadian veterans point of view

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00:01:21.420 episode 352 in this beautiful st patrick's day march 17th 2025 oh my goodness keep your drink to

00:01:28.780 yourself for now wait till the show is over anyway this podcast is brought to you in part by and

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00:01:47.620 i'm your host crusty canuck happy saint patty's day uh i'm gonna be kind of fast and furious here too

00:01:52.080 because i got a lot of this information coming out uh basically defense procurement you know like i said

00:01:56.240 in the title card defense procurement it's a big joke okay and it doesn't matter what trump said or what

00:02:03.640 george w bush said or what obama uh or obama said or what joe biden said the canadian people are saying 0.95

00:02:13.100 enough and we gotta get shit or get off the pot here it's just been about to my attention that mr uh 0.93

00:02:18.740 mr mark carney uh all of a sudden wants to review the f-35 purchase now apparently there's already been 0.98

00:02:25.400 16 that have been set aside for canadians you know to help our air force out in these troubling times

00:02:30.460 however the government wants to sit around and review it again kind of like what they did with the

00:02:35.280 helicopter issue back in the 1990s okay there was a situation back in 1998 where four pilots were

00:02:41.740 killed in the labrador because of just aging old equipment you know some subtle pilot error but

00:02:48.460 just the fact that things were breaking down and the government at the time didn't want to do anything

00:02:52.020 about it right and now i've got some stories here about the whole fiasco from the 90s and the early

00:02:57.780 2000s in regards to the creche government and they're slacking out of procurement not to mention

00:03:02.040 the article i'll be reading from the uh national post from uh two years ago in regards to what the

00:03:07.760 pbo had to say about spending money on defense issues and what have you so that being said

00:03:14.640 ladies and gentlemen if i can hear you see click like subscribe share this content all of your

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00:03:23.300 like and subscribe and i want to say thank you out there uh to everyone who has subscribed in the

00:03:28.280 past couple months i am now at to 12 200 plus that's right because a wonderful people like you

00:03:34.640 all out there like all yes please

00:03:37.120 well done everybody thank you very much because you help me help yourself you're informed i get my

00:03:44.960 words out people listen they tell two friends and two friends etc etc anyhow like i said in this episode

00:03:50.980 we're talking about the whole defense review thing there's blarney carney and his communist carbon tax

00:03:56.080 wisdom wanting to review the whole f-35 again now personally i think can it would be better off

00:04:01.300 with getting the brand new f-18s i think the f-18s a's i'm not exactly sure that's just me though

00:04:06.540 because i think about what's going to be great in the arctic what's going to handle the arctic the

00:04:11.100 high atmosphere and the altitudes and everything there to get rid of the baddies i want to sneak

00:04:14.660 and peek over our ice shields you know that's just me though but uh needless to say the time to 0.93

00:04:19.560 shit got off the pot we don't have time to waste anymore when it comes to getting things done 0.98

00:04:23.180 because not only do we have the american leaders telling us hey canada smarten up start pulling 0.98

00:04:27.760 your weight we've got some of our european allies starting to show us up okay even those european

00:04:33.160 countries that have smaller population and smaller land masses okay and they're starting to pull their

00:04:39.840 weight so what's our excuse ladies and gentlemen please let me know what is our excuse for our slack

00:04:44.640 an idle defense procurement process it comes down to one thing money as always now does canada have

00:04:55.920 the money sure we do we're part of the g7 we've got lots of money to give away here lots of money to

00:05:00.440 give away there here there slap and tickle for someone else's pickle and your wallet you know i say

00:05:05.800 that a lot because it's i think it's funny but it speaks some truth okay it speaks a lot of truth here 0.97

00:05:11.000 when canada decides to buy something there's a whole fucking process that we have to go through 0.88

00:05:17.800 and you need a board member here and a board member there and a few more board members here 0.88

00:05:21.480 before you know it there's a lot of people getting paid before an example for example a tank hits the

00:05:27.320 road a lot of people are getting paid and considered for promotion before any kind of wheel hits the ground

00:05:34.000 or any kind of aircraft takes off or any kind of ship gets launched there's a lot of bureaucracy

00:05:40.020 and i will give you an example of that when i read these articles here but for my time in the

00:05:44.120 military we used to hear it all the time about the procurement board or what these constituents want

00:05:49.460 or what those constituents want okay and when i did my federal campaign every constituent i talked to

00:05:57.220 had always something positive to say about the military and how the federal government should step up

00:06:01.820 the fucking plate and this is back in 2021 so when you talk about the constituents oh they never really 0.95

00:06:09.980 talked about it oh really but all these constituents out of nowhere thought the carbon tax was just 0.99

00:06:15.420 spectacular hey hardly hardly so with this whole new review thing do you really think mr carney and all your

00:06:26.920 loyal followers okay like those little aliens from toy story oh the master the master you know do you

00:06:34.080 really think it's worth it okay i'll ask you that okay because like the old story goes everyone hates

00:06:40.760 a soldier or barbarian everybody hates a soldier until the enemy is at the gates right well our gates are failing 0.70

00:06:47.040 the way of keeping the gates closed and defending said gates are failing and not because the men and women

00:06:54.280 in uniform it's the men and women that are supposed to back up the men and women in uniform you know

00:07:00.500 the people we elect the people we put in charge of these things so instead ladies and gentlemen if 0.96

00:07:06.200 you're an mp happen to be watching us stop fucking worrying about your portfolio and get on with it 0.99

00:07:11.360 get on with it for fuck's sakes right you don't need any more boards like i'm so sick and tired of 0.99

00:07:19.960 here about procurement board this we have to bring this to the board right there's already so many 0.98

00:07:24.020 bureaucrats in this government already that try to dictate our lives on an hourly basis when it 1.00

00:07:29.940 comes to taxation when it comes to liquor when it comes to food when it comes to how we scratch and

00:07:34.440 what we say and what we think about right now i don't have any articles to back up my claim with

00:07:41.200 mr carney but in a way it doesn't surprise me okay because every federal government has come in

00:07:47.020 has made a lot of fucking bells and whistles in regards to promises when it comes to getting our 0.95

00:07:51.960 military sorted out meaning having a military that can deploy from a to b with no problems 0.98

00:07:57.740 or go on a peace support mission or go on a humanitarian mission or having rid another 0.97

00:08:05.220 dirty fucking war right like during my time in afghanistan yeah we had to ride some british 0.99

00:08:11.660 helicopters and use some american helicopters right but we kicked ass and took names 0.99

00:08:16.900 and it was it was difficult

00:08:20.560 when you see some of your compatriots go but then when we got home we got some support some of us

00:08:31.460 didn't but some lads did so there's still that that lingering of the canadian mantra the canadian

00:08:40.980 mandate when it comes to looking after our soldiers it used to be done back in the first world war and

00:08:46.180 the second world war and especially korea okay but somewhere we had this shift where you know

00:08:52.400 only break glass in case of war kind of thing but then the glass started failing and the glass started

00:08:57.980 cracking getting frail and then what oh it's someone else's fault just throw more money at it

00:09:04.020 but that's not the answer ladies and gentlemen right back after this stay updated and follow

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00:09:24.320 canada's ongoing slack defense i'm your host crusty canuck and i want to say a special thank you out there

00:09:29.500 to a chuck and karen out of jefferson city missouri chuck made a couple of good adverts for me

00:09:35.020 a couple of promos he's a radio guy and he likes my show he likes what i have to say i'm not going

00:09:40.520 to read his email for verbatim but he went out of his way to make me some adverts and some intros

00:09:45.560 so thank you very much chuck and karen out of jefferson city missouri you guys are awesome

00:09:50.360 thank you very much and i'll cue that up later in the show and play for you all to listen but i'm going

00:09:59.420 to read um an article from national post here for you ladies gentlemen and really pay attention to

00:10:05.560 some of the things that are said here okay and it's just i just find it fascinating how 1.00

00:10:11.020 the government just doesn't care they don't you can't be that stupid and you can't be that smart 0.98

00:10:16.360 all at the same time but they just don't they just don't care and i'd have to say it's because 0.99

00:10:21.460 of the arrogance of them relying on the americans look after things all the time rather than you know

00:10:25.920 treating them with respect and as an ally and then maybe they can help out once in a while we can help

00:10:30.680 them out once in a while too but we don't have the ability to help them out you see what i'm getting

00:10:34.140 at here so this is an article from the national post uh by a brian uh brian passive fume uh dated

00:10:41.880 june 9th 2023 it's a four minute read so bear with me folks if you can catch my drift and i'll leave

00:10:48.740 this in the description if you used to follow at your own time ladies and gentlemen right so uh here we go

00:10:54.020 lack of domestic defense industry bureaucracy hindering canada's military procurement procurement

00:10:58.780 says pbo right reliance on foreign equipment and doubling up of purchasing authority is hamstringing

00:11:05.820 defense obligations can is continued reliance on foreign military procurement as well as an

00:11:11.200 inefficient doubling up of purchasing authority is hamstringing canada's ability to meet defense

00:11:16.660 targets right says parliamentary budget watchdog parliamentary budget officer eve girot 0.98

00:11:22.460 remember him when he said the carbon tax isn't a good thing and these rebates mean fuck all 0.93

00:11:27.420 anyway i'm digressing appeared before the house national defense committee friday morning to provide 0.92

00:11:31.840 insight on recent reports on canada's defense policy including his office's october 2022 report on

00:11:38.320 life cycle costs of canada's canada's surface combatants ships shipbuilding initiative in their

00:11:44.340 june 2022 analysis of canada's attempts to meet nato's two percent defense spending benchmark

00:11:49.020 and its 2022 examination of planned capital spending under canada's strong secure

00:11:53.920 engaged defense policy basically the strong secure engaged policy is no better than

00:11:59.020 the 1987 and 1994 defense white paper report anyway regarding the latter report girot said he

00:12:07.320 determined that canadian government was underspending with respect to what is outlined

00:12:10.940 in current defense policy the tune of eight billion over four years the government at that point

00:12:16.280 when we realized that report had revised its capital expenditures to make up for that shortfall

00:12:21.820 he told committee pbo analyst christopher penny told the committee that in 2022-23 saw capital

00:12:28.320 spending shortfalls of 1.5 billion compared to what was outlined in strong secure engaged with

00:12:33.920 shortfalls this fiscal year of around 4 billion there was over 10 billion planned spending under

00:12:38.440 sse for 2023-2024 and only 6 billion was asked for the estimates penny said responding to questions from

00:12:45.980 liberal committee member darren fisher on how the best to streamline military procurement

00:12:49.600 gero said canada smaller than average homegrown defense production base is having a negative

00:12:54.540 impact particularly when paired with policies favoring procurement from local vendors

00:12:58.960 right there at a disadvantage especially we insist on having canadian made major equipment and the

00:13:04.740 government for obvious reasons often insist on domestic production he said see that's reliance

00:13:09.580 all can industry can do it but then they can't decide which is the better one

00:13:12.520 that severely limits the competitive base on which the government can tap

00:13:17.080 gero said there's a definite value in having domestic defense production capacity

00:13:20.940 but warned against policies that make canada overly reliant on local production when more cost-efficient

00:13:26.900 options exist overseas okay there are options the thing is our procurement board limits those options

00:13:34.660 okay and our government too by by some strange coincidence oh yes of course oh yes

00:13:41.280 right it's difficult to meet all constraints if you also add domestic production he said canada has a

00:13:47.860 small industrial defense base so if any government insists on domestic production it's very difficult

00:13:52.740 to have sound competition that will also drive down costs right the only way to square that circle

00:13:58.860 he said is to make commitments to source domestically with benchmarks to allow for foreign procurement

00:14:03.400 if the numbers don't make prudent prudent financial sense exactly you don't let competition thrive

00:14:12.220 that's what happens you won't let foreign investment inside canada oh who knew but then that would be a

00:14:18.200 breach of domestic production capacity policy and that would leave canada exposed to foreign suppliers

00:14:22.660 in case of a war outbreak that would require significant ramp up of production he said well 0.99

00:14:27.100 shit or get off the pot what do you say that juggling competition with speed 0.99

00:14:32.940 expectancy and financial prudence your role said requires a delicate balancing act doing cost and value 1.00

00:14:37.860 for money while also ensuring as had been the government's policy for some time now to develop a

00:14:43.220 domestic defense capability he said okay it's one thing to procure major equipment from abroad

00:14:48.640 but in the case of war it doesn't guarantee us that we'll be the first to be served

00:14:52.180 we'd probably be at the back of the queue numerous means exist to improve defense procurement in

00:14:57.280 canada he said but explained that both specialization and single point accountability are key

00:15:02.020 streamlining procurement jerome said could be achieved by ensuing single points

00:15:05.820 and both contact and accountability in canada's defense procurement freight work

00:15:09.480 so needless to say ladies and gentlemen i'll leave this article in the description for you to follow

00:15:14.440 and it's pretty self-explanatory too many bean counters too many bureaucrats everyone has

00:15:19.200 wants to have their piece of the pie but they don't want to take any time to get the ingredients to 0.99

00:15:25.840 bake it properly right no fucking bureaucrats board what does the board say who gives a fuck about the 0.99

00:15:32.320 board what do the people say stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter gap telegram 0.99

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00:15:49.200 anyhow you're back ladies and gentlemen episode 352 the crusty canuck podcast canada's ongoing slack

00:15:54.780 defense i'm your host crusty canuck and i'm going to play that radio advert that my new friends out

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00:16:43.340 so thank you very much chuck and karen that was wonderful of yous

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00:16:54.720 12 200 plus subscribers now on the tube because of you wonderful people thank you once again i'm

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00:17:11.600 uh all my regulars tell me all the time that's fine anyone new watching this anyone from europe

00:17:16.340 united states please let me know i don't mind i'm not going to be prejudiced here i'm not going to

00:17:20.540 pinpoint fuck the politics i just want people to listen what i have to say if you like it great if 0.85

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00:17:33.640 these things here too having some issues i pre-recorded part of this episode before and it was like

00:17:38.680 the mic wasn't even on almost i can hear the playback and the feedback here as i'm uh trying

00:17:44.760 to get this sorted out ladies and gentlemen but uh it's all to you wonderful people so procurement

00:17:49.360 a joke in this country it is to me people sit in their hands worrying about getting paid and i had

00:17:54.260 a little conversation with an ex-sailor there a few years back who was telling me an interesting

00:17:59.020 story and i actually wrote some of these notes down i try to remember it as best i could

00:18:03.100 um he was out of the navy got a job with a procurement in halifax and to make a long story

00:18:09.080 short basically it took him two weeks to decide what kind of tires to buy for a pickup truck or

00:18:14.180 i think three or four of them anyway took about two weeks to decide that now how long does it take you

00:18:20.780 and i if we have to replace tires in our vehicle right it took me about a day okay and even if i had

00:18:28.640 let's say 10 pickup trucks to look after or 20 pickup trucks look after if i was a fleet manager

00:18:33.200 i would make a pretty simple decision depending on what kind of contract you have with the locals

00:18:38.960 whatever tire store or tire venue okay but then again you got to be practical and pragmatic because

00:18:46.520 you're dealing with other people's money taxpayers money so when it comes to the bidding process i just

00:18:53.100 read you an example in the national post about that now you get these clowns and procurement boards 0.97

00:18:57.580 can't decide what to fucking do so if it takes two weeks to decide what kind of tires to get for 0.97

00:19:02.260 10 20 trucks you know what's that going to tell you about requiring 10 or 20 tanks or 10 or 10 or 20 0.98

00:19:10.520 apcs or infantry fighting vehicles or 10 or 20 ships now i had a video queued up here from scott

00:19:16.480 taylor from respira corps he did an excellent story on the naval procurement issue and i'll leave that in

00:19:21.880 my description for you to follow at least i'll just do kind of time constraints what have you

00:19:25.360 but uh it's we don't have the time to fuck around and gamble anymore okay and if it means you have 0.80

00:19:34.440 to cut some services so be it and i'm not saying certain social programs but there's a lot of top 0.93

00:19:41.620 heavy brass that sits in ottawa right now on the civilian side and on the defense side and in order to cut

00:19:49.080 costs and bring money to to the table maybe we should cut from the top because in order to save

00:19:56.680 the milk you got to cut the cream use the cream for other things like dessert toppings for your coffee

00:20:03.140 or tea or make a wonderful souffle of thumb thought and that way you save the milk you save 0.97

00:20:08.740 what you milk for what you harvest right but we got too much cream there's too much goddamn cream 0.69

00:20:16.200 around we're not getting the results we need okay so you my wonderful especially my canadian audience 0.92

00:20:22.520 okay talk to your mps when it comes to that the federal mps when it comes to defense spending and

00:20:26.700 procurement how come you're not fighting hard enough to get this done how come you're not 0.99

00:20:32.480 fighting hard enough and saying to the procurement minister shit or get off the pot what's going on 0.99

00:20:39.660 what's the delay if we can give so many millions and billions away to one little nation to google 0.99

00:20:45.100 pew pew and bang bang why can't we go pew pew and bang bang here here huh why can't we what are you

00:20:52.920 afraid of right because there's that everlasting reliance on our friends to the south now hats off

00:20:58.620 to my american friends hats off to my american friends that i served with overseas and hats off to

00:21:04.400 the average american out there just goes to work minds his or her business wants to raise their

00:21:09.040 family live in peace and security and freedom just like us canucks do okay

00:21:13.980 but see down there that peace and security and freedom is defended it's still defended up here

00:21:20.940 you just got a big bowl and steal to get it and in some cases you have to go and protest the capital

00:21:27.620 city to be heard is you know getting out here ladies and gentlemen now before i get pissed off and

00:21:33.480 angry here i do have a couple of articles i will include in the description just to back up my point

00:21:38.940 on my points in regards to procurement process and how many times the cretchen government canceled a

00:21:45.220 program which cost the canadian taxpayers 500 million bucks back in 1993 right and then to turn

00:21:51.240 around and try to buy it again kind of like what we're doing with this the f-35 fighter jet it was

00:21:57.180 canceled before now it's being brought back so it's costing us more money so which is it okay now there's

00:22:03.680 so-called experts who might have spent some time in the air cadets who think they know exactly what

00:22:09.700 to do when it comes to getting a fighter jet right they would say the f-16 right or the f-15 f-15 is an 0.98

00:22:16.220 excellent jet right i think i got to see him fly overseas fuck they're nasty they're beautiful too 0.93

00:22:21.400 even the a-10 warthog is a beautiful bird okay but what we need for canada is efficiency they say the 0.95

00:22:29.120 f-35 can do it i would say the f-18a could probably do it the new f-18 but it's just a matter of them

00:22:36.060 procuring it and who they want to help out they can't broaden their horizons they can't think

00:22:40.580 outside the box because they're afraid to plus some lobbyists have their little investments there too

00:22:45.640 again they have government money which is taxpayers money right so when it comes to defense

00:22:51.380 procurement ladies gentlemen i suggest my canadian audience out there you really hammer your mps about

00:22:55.700 it and make him discuss it in parliament because i actually had a conversation with an ex-conservative

00:23:00.560 mp there a few months back with my friends and northern perspective and i asked him a question

00:23:05.880 about the defense thing and his excuse was now get this i've heard this before okay well my constituents

00:23:12.420 never really talked about it really really really when they'd see those coffins coming down the

00:23:20.280 highway of heroes they never talked about it at all never really never

00:23:24.660 so if you're an mp and you're watching this podcast listen to this podcast don't hand me your 0.96

00:23:34.960 bullshit excuses especially to a guy that spent 20 years in the service i had to do 20 years to get my 0.96

00:23:41.260 pension all you guys got to do is six see there's a point right there too when it's coming from the top 0.97

00:23:46.180 cut from the top cut from the top to find these find these these issues can be solved and if there's 0.99

00:23:52.020 a money allotted to buy something and get off your ass and buy something it's that simple 0.99

00:23:56.940 right who cares what the board thinks think about the sailors are going to be on that ship 1.00

00:24:02.600 think about the drivers and crew crew commanders going to be driving that tank

00:24:06.360 okay think about the infantry soldier that's me trying out that new rifle or trying out that new

00:24:12.440 site system right think about that those are the guys you have to ask and talk to not some board

00:24:19.700 member who sits in charlottetown on on the holidays and eats pastries or some board member sits in 0.95

00:24:24.900 halifax can't decide what kind of fucking tires to buy you talk to the men and women are going to be 1.00

00:24:29.140 using this equipment it's that simple but no no we got to take a simple thing and elongate it and spend 0.97

00:24:35.840 more money towards that to find a consultant to consult the consultants to give us a final answer

00:24:41.440 ah gotcha gotcha gee i was way off stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter

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00:24:56.760 and you're back ladies and gentlemen episode 352 canada's ongoing slack defense i'm your host

00:25:04.660 crusty canuck and just a reminder to you ladies and gentlemen if you like to hear what you see click

00:25:07.400 like subscribe share this podcast all of your social media platforms and all that good stuff

00:25:12.000 give me a thumbs up comments and all that too if you see this in the premiere let me know you're out

00:25:15.700 there let me know where you're from you know what you're doing how you're doing all that good stuff

00:25:19.980 and there's no prejudice here ladies and gentlemen i don't tolerate any racial bs i don't tolerate any

00:25:24.620 religious bs just try to be people and try to be good and civil to each other to the best of your

00:25:29.800 ability like i said i'll have links in this description in my description where you can follow

00:25:34.320 where you can see an example of the defense procurement process in this country for the

00:25:38.500 better part of 30 years not to mention what happened before i remember in 1987 brian marooney

00:25:44.320 come out with a defense paper report 1987 defense report how to upgrade this they're going to get

00:25:49.240 new submarines uh nuclear submarines that were going to help our arctic big time the dew line was still

00:25:54.600 decent it was still up to certain standards but now it's it's null and void null and void and we hear

00:26:02.300 carney talk about defense issues he basically stole pierre pauliev's lines when it comes to

00:26:07.140 making the arctic uh more reinforced and putting bases up there that was pauliev's plan so the man's

00:26:12.780 a plagiarist to be honest with you so he can't be trusted who knows what he's talking to the king

00:26:16.560 about today he's in he's in england today he had a little video with keir starmer meeting and talking

00:26:21.800 about things and he was with macron and talking about things how much money they can rip off for people 0.61

00:26:26.600 you know how it works right you know the whole woke elite right and they're bullshit but hey who 0.83

00:26:32.760 am i i'm digressing but uh when it comes to procuring for this country we've got to use common 0.95

00:26:38.860 sense and do what's practical what is going to work for canada not what's going to work for this group

00:26:44.560 here or this company here what's going to work for the men and women that'll be using this equipment

00:26:48.820 to defend this nation right it's that simple ladies and gentlemen what if a major city in this

00:26:55.300 country said they wanted to uh budget cut and save money and instead of buying their fire department

00:27:00.380 proper fire hoses what would happen if they say hey we got a canadian distributor that can give you

00:27:05.700 all these garden hoses wouldn't that be fantastic you can still do your job you got to work really

00:27:10.700 harder and nothing's guaranteed but hey you're a canadian company and they make garden hoses 0.99

00:27:15.500 i wonder how many firefighters would uh tolerate that shit okay think about that so if you know a 0.99

00:27:25.220 firefighter who wouldn't tolerate that kind of procurement bullshit then why is it okay for 1.00

00:27:29.320 our men and women in uniform to settle for our procurement bullshit something to think about folks 0.99

00:27:35.920 anyhow i've been crusty canuck on this beautiful 17th of march saint patrick's day my friends out there 0.96

00:27:42.220 i had a terrible irish accent unless to say i guess everyone has a little bit of irish in them

00:27:46.120 right or if they want to or you know but uh what i will tell my family roots uh basically i looked up

00:27:52.620 my family name and there's roots in ireland and scotland so i got the best of both worlds

00:27:56.500 and a little bit of english too so i guess you can say i'm british that's why i carry the union jack

00:28:00.720 around there in my show because i like britain i think britain's pretty cool and but you know i love

00:28:05.180 canada too and i like my american friends as well so hey it's all good ladies and gentlemen

00:28:09.620 anyhow happy saint patrick's day out there to everybody uh keep your wits about you do what

00:28:15.400 you can have during these trying times weather is pretty good in this area so um just be just be

00:28:22.020 sensible it's kind of slippery on the road so don't be too anxious to get someplace fast

00:28:26.680 and just help your neighbors out if someone's shy a few bucks give them a hand give yourself a hand and

00:28:32.320 be good to yourselves too ladies and gentlemen right and i should be on probably another another

00:28:36.820 episode probably this wednesday evening so you know keep your uh keep those chins up keep calm

00:28:44.300 keep cool keep collected and do your best to be good to people and uh like i always say ladies

00:28:49.380 gentlemen humanity and merit wins the day take care i'll see you next time bye for now

00:28:55.140 hit it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me

00:29:03.680 there is no racial bigotry here

00:29:09.700 this has been another episode of the crusty canuck podcast stay sane and thank you for listening

00:29:22.380 from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast 0.99

00:29:26.360 well smack my ass and call me judy 1.00

The Crusty Canuck Podcast - March 18, 2025

Canada's ON-GOING Slack Defense! EP#352

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