The Crusty Canuck Podcast - Ep#214 Tuesday Rant 20 Fired from the CRA⧸”Tides” cash involved in Canadian Elections

00:00:00.880 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's July 4th, 2023. Happy Independence Day to my American friends and listeners out there.

00:00:09.080 Coming up with a Tuesday rant of the Cresting Out podcast, episode 214.

00:00:13.740 Topics will be 20 tax collectors from the CRA being fired, 600 being investigated, and more insight on foreign cash being injected into our elections.

00:00:22.920 Plus, an honorable mention out there to a wonderful artist.

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00:01:07.720 That's right, ladies and gentlemen, episode 214, the Tuesday rant and the Krusty Canuck podcast.

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00:01:28.360 So like the title card said, ladies and gentlemen, apparently in the news recently, and a special thank you out there to Clyde Do Something, he's got a wonderful channel on YouTube, exposed this.

00:01:41.040 There have been roughly 20 employees thus far that have been fired from the Canadian Revenue Agency.

00:01:47.560 Now, my American listeners and British listeners and other listeners that are not Canadian, the CRA, Canadian Revenue Agency, are the tax people, tax collectors.

00:01:55.400 They're the people that send you little notices and little reminders that you owe that money every fiscal year.

00:02:01.180 These are the people you have to send papers to every fiscal year to make sure that you're paying your fair share in this scheme called taxation.

00:02:09.180 All right.

00:02:09.520 So apparently, according to the National Post, there's an article here that I will add up or put up for you is all, and I will read along with you.

00:02:18.080 It's basically stating that 20 employees have been fired already in regards to collection of the CERB and CERB payments.

00:02:26.640 Now, during the pandemic, a lot of, to my foreign listeners out there, non-Canadian listeners, we had a thing called the CERB payment, a Canadian Emergency Relief Benefit, which basically gave a lot of these individuals money throughout the month because they couldn't work or they couldn't, they lost their jobs or what have you.

00:02:50.320 It's basically a glorified welfare payment, to say the least.

00:02:53.860 Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this up here for you, Zal, and we're going to sit and have a little read about it.

00:03:01.580 And we'll just see the buffoonery that has been bestowed on a lot of us here in regards to fraudulent payments.

00:03:08.440 Now, one of my episodes, I have said, ladies and gentlemen, that there's about $15 billion worth of fraudulent payments that haven't been claimed yet by the tax people, the CRA mainly, because there are people that received these benefits during the pandemic, people that were in prison, people that weren't working, i.e. teenagers,

00:03:31.420 and people that were making $100,000 plus a year, plus getting an extra $2,000 or more a month in the name of safety and protection.

00:03:41.660 Now, you've heard me ramble on about my story with the tax people in this country, especially in regards to me getting an award or rewarded for my pain and suffering from the military.

00:03:52.260 And they're trying to ding me $45,000 plus in fraudulent taxes, apparently.

00:03:58.180 But I'll read this article for you here, too.

00:04:00.480 You guys just read along, and I want you, my wonderful audience, to decide amongst yourselves, too.

00:04:05.060 CRA fires 20 employees, investigating hundreds more for claiming CERB while working for the tax agency.

00:04:11.360 Late Friday evening, a spokesperson confirmed the organization was investigating 600 of its workers it suspects inappropriately receiving who have received a $2,000 per month CERB payment.

00:04:22.480 This comes from Christopher Nardi of the National Post, one of Canada's national papers.

00:04:26.820 So, Ottawa, the Canadian Revenue Agency, has fired 20 of its employees and is investigating roughly 580 others for claiming the Canada Emergency Response Benefit to CERB while working for the tax authority.

00:04:38.720 So, these individuals were working.

00:04:40.760 They were gainfully employed during the pandemic, and they're still getting paid, plus getting some extra payola under the chuff or under the table from, you know, themselves, basically, because they're the ones that oversaw a lot of these payments.

00:04:54.960 In a statement, late Friday evening, agency spokesperson Sylvia Branch confirmed the organization was investigating 600 of its own workers it expects inappropriately received the $2,000 per month CERB while employed with the CRA.

00:05:07.440 She also confirmed the agency had fired 20 of them to date, but more are surely to come as the investigation progresses.

00:05:18.780 So, the latest data means that the CRA suspects up to 1% of its 60,000 employees may have collected CERB while ineligible.

00:05:28.580 A number of the agency calls very limited.

00:05:31.040 The new data shows the CRA has found a staggering increase in cases of problems with employees collecting CERB since March, when the agency reported to MPs on the House Public Accounts Committee that it expected 10 of its employees had ineligibly claimed CERB while working.

00:05:45.220 Okay, so it doesn't matter if you have 60,000 people working for you, when you have a percentage of employees skimming off the top.

00:05:56.380 I know for a fact in the private sector, that's a big, big no-no, and you shouldn't do that.

00:06:01.980 They call that, I think, embezzlement, right?

00:06:05.120 So, in return, when you think of these individuals who have skimmed and scammed, this is what they deserve.

00:06:11.660 Absolutely nothing.

00:06:12.900 Precisely.

00:06:14.420 Precisely.

00:06:15.520 And I'll carry on here, too.

00:06:16.920 At around the same time, the CRA said that it had fired a number of its staff who received CERB while working for the agency, but refused to specify how many because it was too small to disclose without creating a privacy risk.

00:06:31.220 Yeah, okay, we'll get to privacy later.

00:06:33.880 And according to a document table in the House in response to a question posed by the Conservatives, okay,

00:06:39.380 two government sources who were granted anonymity so they could freely discuss internal affairs said the review came after pressure from National Review Minister,

00:06:50.040 Diane Laboutier, I can't pronounce her name, my apologies to my French audience out there, Laboutier,

00:06:54.980 who expressed serious skepticism about the low number of employees investigated at the time.

00:07:00.920 As the CRA is responsible for administering the Income Tax Act and many COVID-19 benefits, the highest standard of employee conduct must be upheld.

00:07:10.700 The CRA understands the importance of transparency and integrity, Branch said.

00:07:14.300 The CRA also takes seriously its obligations to ensure that both Canadians and its employees are aware that the CRA takes any form of wrongdoing very, very seriously.

00:07:23.500 You make too much money, you have to give us more.

00:07:25.960 You make too much money, you got to pay it forward.

00:07:27.920 That's just the way it is.

00:07:29.080 You know, even though the Income Tax Act came in Canada in 1917 to help pay for those poor guys in the trenches back in France and everywhere else in the world under the Canadian flag at that time,

00:07:41.580 which was the Red Ensign, but anyway, I digress.

00:07:45.340 Okay.

00:07:46.000 Oh, my God.

00:07:47.120 Launched in March 2020, early in the COVID pandemic, CERB paid $2,000 per month to eligible recipients.

00:07:53.220 One of the key eligibility requirements was that recipients had to have lost their primary job or income because of the pandemic,

00:07:59.780 making employed individuals largely ineligible unless they made less than $1,000 a month income when they applied.

00:08:06.360 Okay.

00:08:08.380 Because the average Canadian needs roughly about $3,000 plus a month to get ahead, which is changing as we speak.

00:08:15.020 So they say they don't factor in actual, you know, inflation with mortgage payments and gasoline and groceries.

00:08:21.200 Anyway, I'm digressing.

00:08:21.800 The program was ended September 2020, and those still unemployed had their cases transferred to the unemployment insurance system.

00:08:27.940 In its statement, the agency noted that being employed by the CRA did not necessarily imply ineligibility for CERB.

00:08:33.800 So it's reviewing each file on a case-by-case basis.

00:08:36.840 The CRA employs individuals with a variety of employment profiles, such as temporary and student contracts,

00:08:42.120 and as such, individuals may have been eligible to receive the CERB at the time it was available, reads the statement.

00:08:49.360 The CRA's internal investigations are but a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of verifications it will have to conduct to recoup the billions of dollars in COVID benefit overpayments.

00:09:00.460 Now, they had their wrists slap about this before, earlier this year, $15 billion fraudulent payments.

00:09:07.520 They're not looking out for.

00:09:10.000 You can see why.

00:09:11.600 As of January 19th, the agency had warned nearly 1 million Canadians that they were clawing back on some or all the COVID-19 benefits for a total of $4.2 billion as of that date,

00:09:21.400 with more to come as the CRA in Employment and Social Development Canada, ESDC, conducted more post-payment verifications.

00:09:30.680 Auditor General Karen Hogan also warned in a report in December that both departments need to look into up to $27 billion in payments,

00:09:41.200 she flagged as suspicious across a dozen pandemic benefits, mostly notable of the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy, CEWS.

00:09:49.960 But Hogan also found that the CRA and the ESDC were not prepared for the daunting task of recouping all that money,

00:09:57.120 lambasting the lack of rigor, lack of balls, basically, in their recovery plans and efforts meant they would likely fail to recover significant amounts of overpayments.

00:10:05.360 So, there's the point right there.

00:10:08.080 They were fraudulent in their jobs to begin with.

00:10:10.840 They didn't take responsibility for paying this out, paying this out, paying this out.

00:10:14.700 And how are you going to get it back?

00:10:16.600 Now, there's people I know personally who've had to pay some of it back.

00:10:19.300 And they've done it.

00:10:20.360 The honorable thing, right?

00:10:21.800 You borrow something, you return it. 0.99

00:10:23.520 Shit simple. 1.00

00:10:25.020 Okay. 0.99

00:10:25.580 The CRA is not the only federal department that was tasked with dueling out pandemic benefits that has since had to fire employees who unduly applied for the CERB.

00:10:34.060 In February, Mayor Crescenzi, the head of the ESD Integrity Service, told MPs, the Public Accounts Committee,

00:10:40.540 that her department had fired 49 workers who had received the CERB during the pandemic.

00:10:45.320 It was discovered that some of our employees had availed themselves the CERB, Crescenzi told MPs, on the House Public Accounts Committee,

00:10:51.980 those individuals that did break the trust in the employer-employee relationship have been terminated.

00:10:57.700 Stern talking to, you're released.

00:10:59.520 They're probably working elsewhere anyway, too.

00:11:01.040 At the time, she did not specify if the department was investigating additional workers.

00:11:05.940 Crescenzi also said the employees had applied for benefit outside working hours and did not do it on government devices.

00:11:12.640 So that doesn't matter if they did it on government devices or not.

00:11:16.560 There have been scammers.

00:11:17.960 Okay.

00:11:18.120 These are the people that collect taxes from you and I, ladies and gentlemen.

00:11:23.140 Okay.

00:11:23.500 These are individuals that take it upon themselves to send you cute little letters and tell you that,

00:11:29.260 oh, we've reassessed you and you overpaid here, which is, you know, very, very far few in between.

00:11:35.160 But they always have enough guts and integrity to sit there and say, oh, you owe us more.

00:11:40.760 You owe us more.

00:11:42.340 So it doesn't matter if it's 20 employees in a 60,000-employee-based conglomerate.

00:11:51.040 There's been dishonesty there.

00:11:52.540 It's been proven already that they've had fraudulent payments to people, dead people, prisoners, teenagers that didn't need it

00:12:00.820 because they were well looked after by their well-to-do parents and some people that were making $100,000-plus a year

00:12:06.160 while still collecting $2,000 extra a month in the name of safety.

00:12:12.700 So it puts things in perspective, ladies and gentlemen.

00:12:15.760 It really does.

00:12:17.780 Right?

00:12:18.760 This country's in debt.

00:12:20.100 This country needs private sector money to get things going.

00:12:26.040 The government's tried to save us already with the serve payments.

00:12:28.620 And they've also created a lot of this inflation with constantly printing the money.

00:12:32.340 Let's get the money machine going here. 0.99

00:12:33.940 Oh, let's give this away here.

00:12:35.180 Let's give this away there.

00:12:36.900 Right?

00:12:38.760 Let's keep giving money to this country or this group of people or that group of people.

00:12:43.240 Yet, it's the middle class in any working democracy that funds a lot of these government expenditures,

00:12:51.360 that funds a lot of these payments, that keeps the roads paved and clean 24-7.

00:12:58.680 How do you feel, ladies and gentlemen, when you hear this stuff coming from government offices

00:13:05.200 that should hold no bias whatsoever in the name of what you do with your money?

00:13:11.460 But then you find this out.

00:13:12.800 They're still getting paid.

00:13:14.080 Right?

00:13:14.660 Because every government office gets paid in Canadian tax dollars.

00:13:18.420 They don't get paid in oil money or agriculture money.

00:13:21.640 They get paid in tax dollars.

00:13:23.940 So what's that tell you?

00:13:25.920 Right?

00:13:26.420 You're really going to stick it to the government because the CRA is part of the PSAC union.

00:13:32.000 And they were on strike there, what, two months ago?

00:13:34.240 Talking about fairness in the workplace.

00:13:36.140 Talking about workload and stress.

00:13:38.420 Talking about having the privilege of going to work in your jammy jam.

00:13:41.760 Sitting on your Zoom and typing away.

00:13:43.780 Telling, Sarah, you owe us an additional $2,600 for fraudulent payment. 0.97

00:13:48.820 And yet you look at these clowns and how fraudulent were they? 0.95

00:13:54.900 How fraudulent was their chain of command or their bureaucratic command? 0.98

00:13:58.400 Making sure that all the T's were crossed and I's dotted. 0.62

00:14:01.540 Something to think about, isn't it? 1.00

00:14:03.240 What a bunch of bullshit. 0.99

00:14:05.320 Stay updated and follow Krusty Canuck on Facebook, Twitter, Gap, Telegram, YouTube, and Podbean. 0.99

00:14:12.820 Subscribe today and donate at KrustyCanuck.ca.

00:14:18.820 And once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast.

00:14:22.240 The Tuesday Rant, episode 214.

00:14:24.620 20 tax collectors from the CRA fired, 600 being investigated.

00:14:28.160 Plus foreign cash coming into Canadian elections.

00:14:30.620 Yes, I'm your host, Krusty Canuck.

00:14:32.280 And once again, happy Independence Day out there to my American listeners and friends.

00:14:36.900 Well done.

00:14:37.940 All the best for freedom.

00:14:39.420 We celebrated our candidate this past Saturday. 0.72

00:14:42.340 Weather kind of sucked.

00:14:43.300 We had a hailstorm and there was a little tornado that touched down in the central part of the province, too. 0.87

00:14:49.440 Some homes were damaged, some property damaged.

00:14:51.480 Luckily, no one was hurt, thankfully.

00:14:53.680 But my heart's got to people out there that have to deal with the weather.

00:14:56.640 And to all the kids out there, they're saying, climate change is real.

00:15:00.240 We got to panic. 1.00

00:15:02.140 Fuck off. 1.00

00:15:03.560 No. 1.00

00:15:03.900 Now, this time of year in this part of the province, it does get pretty hot and it does rain and hail.

00:15:08.900 And there are little things called touchdowns that create the weather as we see it.

00:15:14.320 High and low pressures mixing.

00:15:15.820 All of a sudden, boom, you got yourself a little tornado, a little storm.

00:15:19.460 That's the way it is in the plains, ladies and gentlemen.

00:15:21.840 And if you took high school geography, you would have understood that concept.

00:15:25.380 Now, as I said before, is the weather changing?

00:15:28.300 Yeah, but not to a point where we're all going to die in 12 years.

00:15:30.720 It's just people that want to take more of our money to call the shots. 0.68

00:15:33.300 But I'm digressing anyway.

00:15:34.740 Carrying on with the episode 214.

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00:16:34.600 20 tax collectors from the CRA fired.

00:16:36.660 600, 600, investigated, and foreign cash going into Canadian elections.

00:16:40.580 Now, this was brought to me by a member of my Twitter page, and she is quite the innovative individual.

00:16:50.020 She's also quite, how do you say, woke.

00:16:54.400 I'm sorry, not woke.

00:16:56.240 Realistic, based.

00:16:57.200 That's the term.

00:16:57.800 She's very, very based.

00:16:58.960 And she's looking for the truth, just like you and I are, ladies and gentlemen.

00:17:04.140 And really, really just making an effort to make sense of these dogmas that are going on with our country as we speak.

00:17:14.100 And it's basically, it's good to see.

00:17:16.140 Now, she come across this article from 2017 from the National Post in regards to money coming into Canada from foreign conglomerates.

00:17:26.400 Now, it's been big news recently, too, with Chinese influence and Chinese millionaires and Chinese business trying to call the shots for our leaders.

00:17:36.420 MP Michael Chong being harassed.

00:17:38.520 A couple of other individuals being harassed by Chinese influence.

00:17:42.040 And how many liberals out there are denying it, too?

00:17:45.080 Because we've all saw the special report from the rapporteur, David Johnston.

00:17:51.520 And he's more or less saying, well, nothing to see here.

00:17:54.060 But I'll read this article along.

00:17:55.640 Now, this is from 2017.

00:17:57.920 And it shows you how much influence is happening with other conglomerates getting their hands in Canadian politics.

00:18:06.820 Like I said, this was published May 23rd, 2017.

00:18:10.240 And the liberals were already in power for about a year and a half, 18 months already when this was written.

00:18:14.820 So I'll just read this along.

00:18:16.700 Millions in foreign funds spent in 2015 federal election to defeat Harper government report alleges.

00:18:23.760 In total, 114 third parties poured $6 million into influencing the election outcome.

00:18:30.020 And many of those third parties were funded by U.S.-based Tides Foundation.

00:18:34.480 I'll get to them shortly.

00:18:36.580 Okay.

00:18:36.980 Foreign money funneled towards Canadian political advocacy groups affected the outcome of the 2015 federal election,

00:18:41.560 according to the document filed last week with Elections Canada and obtained in part by the Calgary Herald.

00:18:47.300 A 36-page report entitled Elections Canada Complaint Regarding Foreign Influence in the 2015 election

00:18:52.200 alleges third parties worked with each other, which may have bypassed election spending limits,

00:18:57.560 all of which appears to be a contravention of the Canadian Elections Act.

00:19:01.300 The Canadian Elections Act states that third parties should not circumvent, attempt, or circumvent to limit set out in any manner,

00:19:09.200 including the splitting itself into two or more third parties for the purpose of circumventing the limit

00:19:13.440 or acting in inclusion with another third party so that their combined election advertising expenses exceed the limit. 0.98

00:19:19.160 So more or less, they can't fuck around. 0.90

00:19:21.420 Electoral outcomes were influenced, alleges the report. 0.96

00:19:24.400 The Canada Elections Act also states no person who does not reside in Canada

00:19:27.940 shall, during an election period, in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate

00:19:34.240 unless the person is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.

00:19:39.040 Or resident, sorry.

00:19:41.140 Yet the outcome of the 2015 election was skewed by money from wealthy foreigners,

00:19:44.940 alleges the complaint submitted by Canada decides a registered society with three listed directors,

00:19:50.340 including Joan Crockett, a former Conservative MP from Calgary Centre,

00:19:53.280 who lost her seat to Liberal Kent Ayer, now an MP for the once-long-held total writing of the Minister of Veterans Affairs.

00:20:00.360 This is when Kent was there at the time, back in 2017. 0.99

00:20:03.100 He got in shit, too, for being a really, really bad guy. 0.98

00:20:05.960 Regardless if he's in a wheelchair or not, he just wasn't a nice person. 1.00

00:20:09.220 You know, he was quite the pig, apparently.

00:20:11.480 And two other directors include Chen Hallman, University of Toronto political science student. 0.86

00:20:15.680 Okay, the number of third parties registered during the 2015 general election were more than doubled to 114 compared with 55 in the 2011 election.

00:20:24.380 Okay, Americans are rightly concerned about Russia hacking U.S. government emails.

00:20:27.780 Well, this appears to be much worse.

00:20:29.400 I would say so.

00:20:32.040 Because the Tides Foundation, I think they're called the Make Way Foundation right now.

00:20:35.400 I think they're still Tides.

00:20:36.280 And they're probably one of the most woke environmental groups out there in the name of looking after their marginalized, what have you, too.

00:20:44.800 But they have a little too much money and a little too much time in their hands in trying to thwart and influence people as we speak.

00:20:51.800 As far as I'm concerned, they are no better than communists, ladies and gentlemen.

00:20:55.960 There, I've said it.

00:20:56.940 Oh, my goodness.

00:20:57.960 Oh, my goodness.

00:20:58.860 You said a bad word.

00:21:00.100 You said the big C word. 0.93

00:21:03.600 Who the hell cares? 0.79

00:21:04.540 Anyway, I'm going on.

00:21:06.280 So, in total, 114 third parties spent $6 million.

00:21:09.660 And many of those third parties were funded by California and New York-based Tides Foundation, which is known in Canada for holding numerous anti-Canadian oil campaigns.

00:21:19.500 Now, I'm not going to read any more of this article because it's old.

00:21:23.520 But I need to say, I will keep this in my description.

00:21:26.500 You can read along with it, too.

00:21:28.480 And to my Canadian listeners out there, you all know exactly what they're about.

00:21:33.140 Bill C-69, C-48 basically forbid oil production in this country because of the environmental impact and because of the gender impact. 0.96

00:21:42.760 And I remember Catherine McKenna saying this garbage. 0.92

00:21:45.860 And I'm just like, what? 0.98

00:21:47.880 So, excuse me.

00:21:50.340 And the thing is, I know females that have worked in the oil patch, qualified welders and drivers and fitters alike. 0.99

00:21:56.120 And they've never had no issues with dirty old men calling them names. 0.97

00:22:00.180 They would call the names back and get the work done and make the big bucks to keep oil flowing in this country.

00:22:06.440 That's just the way they are.

00:22:08.220 It's just the personality you have.

00:22:11.580 But you see how a lot of money is going into making these decisions on our behalf.

00:22:17.840 So, when you look at bills C-48 and C-69, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about there, too.

00:22:25.340 I'll be right back after this.

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00:22:45.240 20 tax collectors from the CRA fired, 600 investigated, and foreign cash into cleaning elections.

00:22:50.640 This is episode 214 from the Krusty Canuck podcast, Tuesday Rant.

00:22:54.980 And I'm your host, Krusty Canuck.

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00:23:05.040 Happy 4th of July to my wonderful American friends out there.

00:23:08.260 You guys are awesome, too.

00:23:09.900 I've had some wonderful emails.

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00:23:38.380 That's BattleFit Bodywear.

00:23:39.780 Link will be in the description for inquiring minds, too.

00:23:43.300 Anyway, carrying on.

00:23:44.520 So, like I said early in the episode, too, I want to give special thanks out there and an appreciation to an artist.

00:23:50.340 A lovely artist by the name of Nina Bolt.

00:23:53.160 She is basically an electronic composer, plays keyboards, has a backup band.

00:24:01.720 I think she's married to a guy who plays guitar and composes things, too.

00:24:05.360 But this is not really a professional video DJ shout-out to her music and everything, too.

00:24:13.960 But there's a couple of tracks that she has that are very, very, how do you say, hypnotic.

00:24:19.000 And out of all honesty, those two songs have inspired me with a lot of my writing, ironically enough.

00:24:29.160 I know she comes from humble beginnings, so I want to write her bio.

00:24:33.200 She was born in Germany.

00:24:34.900 I think she lives in London, too.

00:24:36.680 But I highly recommend, ladies and gentlemen, you check out her music.

00:24:39.440 It's just fantastic.

00:24:40.880 It takes me away to different places.

00:24:46.400 When I think about the plight that's been going on in this country and the plight that's going on in the United States and the plight that's going on into Democratic countries all over the world, believe it or not, a couple of her tracks that just put me in places that just helped me forget that.

00:25:01.160 She has a song called Never Enough, and it's quite the love tune.

00:25:06.220 And, you know, I think of my wife, and I think of people in my past, and I think of some of the friends I had and some of the friends I still have because of her music.

00:25:15.440 And her voice and her harmonies just takes me away to better places.

00:25:20.520 So well done, Nina Bolt, for that track.

00:25:23.080 Like, an automatic call, I think, was the stepping stone that really gave me insight to writing my story.

00:25:33.300 It just kind of helped.

00:25:34.380 Like, I already had the plans and works and everything.

00:25:36.520 I just needed something to give it a good kickstart.

00:25:39.480 And lo and behold, I hear this track from her, and I was like, wow.

00:25:43.340 It takes me right back to the 1980s.

00:25:46.060 Right where my story is being set.

00:25:48.520 So I'm just like, huh, wow.

00:25:50.360 Well, so Miss Nina Bolt, if you are listening to this, well done.

00:25:56.600 And I highly recommend, ladies and gentlemen, that you check out her email, or not her email, her website, and check out her music for yourselves.

00:26:05.360 You can tell she's heavily influenced with a lot of the 80s synth pop and synth rock groups of the day.

00:26:13.820 Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure. 0.63

00:26:16.560 And she's kind of influenced, too, roughly by The Doors and David Bowie, kind of like her style, her lights, her attire, and just really, really decent songs.

00:26:26.740 Like, how else do I say it? 0.96

00:26:28.660 You know, I'm not trying to kiss her butt here or anything like that. 0.88

00:26:30.940 But if you want a change from the mundane, from the terrible, and I think you and I can all agree, ladies and gentlemen, that some of the music that's out there today is really bad.

00:26:43.360 It takes you away to better places, you know what I mean?

00:26:49.500 But when you listen to a lot of top 10 radio, this is basically the feeling I get.

00:26:58.460 But when I listen to Nina and other artists like her, too, there's a couple out there, too.

00:27:02.600 There's a Kid Moxie, a group called Gunship. 0.97

00:27:06.120 But just wow, just holy shit, it takes me back. 0.98

00:27:10.940 It takes me back in a time. 0.95

00:27:13.060 So once again, if you're listening out there, Nina, well done on you, madam, and well done on your husband, your boyfriend, the collaborations you've done.

00:27:20.980 And so far, I look forward to more of your music coming out.

00:27:24.720 Apparently, in the next few weeks, there'll be some new music coming out by her.

00:27:28.040 So keep your ear to the ground and try your best to download some of her tunes today.

00:27:33.760 I'm just thoroughly impressed with what she has done so far, and I highly recommend, ladies and gentlemen.

00:27:40.080 So well done, Ms. Bolt.

00:27:43.340 You've got a fan here in Western Carolina who loves your tunes.

00:27:46.880 And keep on rocking.

00:27:49.820 So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, carrying on this episode, episode 214 of Tuesday Rant.

00:27:56.600 And, of course, you've heard me ramble on about the tax collectors.

00:27:59.100 You've heard me ramble on about some of the idiosyncrasies that have just plagued us all.

00:28:08.600 I don't know what to really say and do is that let's hopefully the powers of being nailed these individuals and look deeper and further.

00:28:17.180 Well, we've also seen a lot of these individuals that have investigated and have tried to find the truth and not get the truth and get sideswiped and get gaslighted and get labeled dirty names.

00:28:29.260 So we, as the Canadian people, ladies and gentlemen, we out there should ask the tough questions.

00:28:35.280 So I highly recommend that we call our MPs and get to the bottom of it.

00:28:39.160 That's the safest way to do it.

00:28:41.900 No?

00:28:42.380 Well, or next year we don't file our taxes.

00:28:46.960 It's that simple.

00:28:48.340 Don't file.

00:28:49.460 Don't pay it.

00:28:51.160 Right?

00:28:51.940 Can they lock up 30,000 people?

00:28:53.900 Find 30,000 people?

00:28:55.320 Can they lock up 60,000 people?

00:28:57.540 And find 60,000 people?

00:29:00.380 Who knows?

00:29:01.320 But when you hear something like this, and yet there are Canadians out there struggling every day with gasoline because we've got the new carbon taxes out there.

00:29:09.220 Everybody, we're going to save the world.

00:29:10.740 We're going to save the world because they're going to take minor money and spend more of it.

00:29:15.940 Said nobody.

00:29:17.680 And people that sit there and think taxes are a good thing.

00:29:21.800 You know, that's the price you pay to be in the civilized world. 0.98

00:29:23.900 Well, you can still be a civilized human being and not fork over your cash because somebody with nice teeth and nice hair says he's going to save the planet and then dance around with his fucking fairy socks, expecting magical things to happen. 0.92

00:29:37.420 It's not because planetary, ladies and gentlemen. 0.97

00:29:39.840 Anyway, I've been Krusty Canuck on this 4th of July, 2023.

00:29:43.840 Once again, happy Independence Day to my American listeners and friends out there.

00:29:47.740 And a special mention and salute to you, Ms. Nina Bolt, for making such great music and keeping the spirit of that genre alive.

00:29:56.900 Well done on you, madam. 0.52

00:29:58.260 And well done on your supporters and your collaborators alike, too.

00:30:02.300 And I want to say well done on all you out there, too.

00:30:05.820 Without my fan base, without you wonderful people making this a reality, I don't know where I'd be right now.

00:30:10.420 I've been at this podcast for about maybe five years now.

00:30:12.740 It's getting better every time.

00:30:14.520 But it's because of people like you that tune into this.

00:30:17.740 And a special thank you out there to Clyde Do Something for exposing the CRA monstrosity of embezzlement, because that's what it is, really. 0.69

00:30:28.300 And a special thank you out there to everybody who has committed, who's gone to work, paid their bills, and doing their best with what they have.

00:30:37.520 Now, I salute you there, too.

00:30:40.240 And I salute all the workers that have tried to make a difference.

00:30:43.300 It doesn't matter if they're ambulance drivers, it doesn't matter if you're lawyers, it doesn't matter if you're doctors, frontline workers, truckers alike, blue-collar aficionados.

00:30:52.400 Well done on you, sirs and madams.

00:30:54.240 Well done on you, all.

00:30:55.460 I want to round an applause for you.

00:30:57.140 You guys are awesome.

00:30:58.900 I'd like to say thank you for what you see.

00:31:00.140 Please click and subscribe and share this content all over your social media platforms, too.

00:31:04.260 So what I'm going to do is, like I say, next Tuesday, I'll have another episode of another Tuesday rant.

00:31:09.600 I'll find something to complain about, you know.

00:31:12.200 But in the meantime, do what you can to help you out in these trying times, ladies and gentlemen.

00:31:15.800 Do not be afraid.

00:31:18.140 Tomorrow's another day.

00:31:20.200 And always remember, humanity and merit wins the day.

00:31:26.540 Take care, and I'll see you next Tuesday.

00:31:28.400 Bye for now.

00:31:28.980 Hit it, sweetheart. 1.00

00:31:34.820 Because I am hard, you will not like me.

00:31:37.760 Yes, sir.

00:31:41.260 There is no racial bigotry here.

00:31:46.060 There you are all.

00:31:47.440 This has been another episode of the Krusty Canuck podcast.

00:31:54.140 Stay sane.

00:31:55.060 And thank you for listening.

00:31:56.520 From Western Canada,

00:31:57.580 This is the Krusty Canuck podcast. 1.00

00:32:03.420 Smack my ass and call me Judy. 1.00

The Crusty Canuck Podcast - July 04, 2023

Ep#214 Tuesday Rant 20 Fired from the CRA⧸”Tides” cash involved in Canadian Elections

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