EP#284 NATO and The FIRE Tax!
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Nato and the fire tax? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Prime Minister Poutine Poutine banter back and forth in parliament over the carbon tax to protect us all minions for the oncoming onslaught of the climate emergency.
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a good evening ladies and gentlemen it's beautiful 26th of may 2024 a beautiful sunday evening it is
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coming up this podcast nato and the fire tax of course criticism for our nato allies because of
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our really lackluster defense spending and leadership and pierre polyev and justin trudeau
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banter back and forth in parliament over the carbon tax i mean i mean the fire tax to protect
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us all minions for the oncoming onslaught of the climate emergency all that more from the podcast
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please stick around listener of your discretion is advised because i might smoke a cigarette and i
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definitely will swear and i'll make some real real funny faces see you in a bit
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get it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast a canadian veterans point of view
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anyway carrying on this episode 284 nato and the fire tax so because it's wildfire season we've got
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the federal government all up in arms right because of the whole wildfire season and they're trying to
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justify the tax yet again now i'm going to ask i've asked this before ladies and gentlemen i have asked
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this before how can a tax help you or help us in this dire climate crisis how
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it can't it can't right so this carbon tax is basically promoting a virtue it's promoting nothing
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but how do you say uh financial inequities insecurities right how is it helping the general
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populace there's a little tidbit out there uh that comes from me and i'll queue the video up here
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uh shortly but of course our beloved prime minister and his followers alike are constantly saying it's
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going to help the environment because we're going to have a price on pollution well you're going to
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have a price on people that actually make it one hell of a mess i can understand that you know if
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you get a pulp and paper mill or any kind of uh refinery or any kind of chemical plant that's caught
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dumping chemicals or bad things into a water stream or into a waterway now historically they have done
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that back in the 50s and 60s they didn't think twice about it but now you get caught doing that
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then your business practically shut down but you you can see in the rhetoric that you're going to see
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between pierre and uh justin in this video i'm going to show you and you're going to hear it too
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just the back and forth bantering about how uh it's going to save the world and how this is going to
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save this and save that the same old rehearsed regurgitation uh the same old rehearsed verbal
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diarrhea that comes from beloved prime minister to justify his lackluster performance and his
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lackluster efforts as leader of this country so i'll just queue this up here for you too ladies and
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gentlemen and uh you just listen amongst yourselves you know you decide right you just uh you decide
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because every time this man speaks you know it's just it's just garbage it is no one believes him
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anymore no one likes him anymore you know just take your ball and go home justin like come on eh
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what are you doing man like really what are you doing but he's he just really has no right being in
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politics so you my wonderful audience i'll let you decide uh you can listen and uh think among yourselves
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here paulie have asked trudeau how high his carbon tax would have to be to get the forest fires to stop
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um and then justin trudeau said um if you don't think that taxes change the weather or
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stop cigarette butts from flying out of car windows that you are engaging in climate denialism
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at his finest prime minister's carbon tax applies on barns on grain dry on fertilizers on off-farm
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vehicles it costs literally tens of thousands of dollars for many individual farmers all of which
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gets passed on but the prime minister instead of defending his taxes resorted to a really wacko and
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unhinged claim that if canadians just paid more taxes there would be suddenly less fires i thought
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that water and not taxes put out fires but let me the prime minister can clarify how high would his
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the right honorable prime minister mr speaker canadians are facing the impacts of the extreme weather events
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that come from climate change that are unfortunately getting worse and worse every year that is why
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our government from uh from 2015 onwards has stepped up in the fight against climate change because not
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only are we uh reducing canada's emissions to the lowest level outside the pandemic in 25 years but we're
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also stepping up in the jobs and technological innovations that the world needs to successfully fight
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climate change we will continue to fight climate change mr speaker and put more money in people's
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pockets while he sits with his arms crossed the honorable leader of the opposition he didn't answer
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my question you know now he says that his taxes are going to make canada a high-tech wonderland
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before his claim was that it was going to stop forest fires it's him that made the link not me
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obviously i think the link between the two is absolutely ridiculous because his tax is not an
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environmental plan it's a money collecting plan it's a plan of government greed so i'll ask the question
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again he wants to hike the tax to 61 cents a liter if it gets to that high and people are all starving
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the right honorable prime minister mr speaker in the leader of the opposition's desire to make
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clever rhetorical points he actually completely ignores the basic facts the price on pollution
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is revenue neutral for the federal government that means the money that comes in for the price on
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pollution for the carbon tax gets returned to the jurisdictions and is why the parliamentary budget
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officer found eight out of ten canadian families in jurisdictions where the carbon price applies
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do better with the canada carbon rebate that comes in four times a year than the price on
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pollution costs them that's a plan to fight climate change
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you know this goes on for another minute or so um and we're just gonna all get stupider from watching
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justin trudeau tell us that this is climate denialism that it's finest how dare you
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conservatives not believe that giving money to the federal government will stop arson
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and careless use of campfires and sparks falling off the tailpipes of atvs and lightning
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you know what i firmly believe and if i don't believe it then i'm a climate denialist at its finest
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that um if i pay more money to justin trudeau then the farmer who blew a tire on my road two weeks ago on his
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trailer and the sparks caused a grass fire the problem is i wasn't paying enough money to justin trudeau
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so if i had paid more money to justin trudeau then um it would have kept the air in my neighbor's tire
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and then it wouldn't have caused a spark on the pavement which then caused a grass fire
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a couple of weeks ago so my fault i guess i'm the worst we're all the worst for not voting for justin trudeau
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as you know and that was uh sheila gun really's gentleman from uh rebel uh news there uh i mentioned
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that earlier yeah but you heard what the prime minister said okay you heard what he said eight
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out of ten canadians are better off yet why is there two million people needing a food bank
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why is there many people that need more food why is there people having a hard time getting ahead
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and we're carrying on this episode of the whole you know episode 34 nato and the fire attack sounds
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like a band doesn't it nato and the fire attack it's coming at you live downtown eminent right um
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sorry i had a bit of a brain fart there anyway so we're looking at nato ladies let me know and
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you know my story uh veteran 20 years canary army all my share of stuff all my share of good times
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it's all my share of great times and some bad times too seen combat seen warfare seen all that
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good stuff and i'm not going to brag but i think it's more than enough to last me a couple lifetimes
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anyway um let me long story short when you look at nato nato is supposed to be this big conglomerate
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that's supposed to help everybody that's supposed to look after the allies so we don't have a situation
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like world war ii ever again okay now one of those rules with nato is that every country that's
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part of nato puts two percent of its gross domestic gross domestic product into its defense that's two
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percent of all the money that's spent by the government goes into our defense now canada is
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now sitting at roughly 1.3 i believe now bill blair and his infinite wisdom as the defense minister
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of course he takes orders from justin and whoever orders justin around takes his orders accordingly
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but you see what i'm getting at here and i'm sure my viewers and my fellow vets we all know the plight
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of how the canadian forces has not met the standard when it comes to two percent my libertarian side
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is very strong i'm looking after this country when it comes to other allies when it comes to other
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foreign wars i think we should stay out of it that's just me though but when your friend needs a hand
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meaning let's say one of our friends is getting invaded we better step up the plate which is my
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personal feeling it's not very libertarian but in the same sense i'm also pro-democracy too
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and nobody likes having their friends fought with right now while i was growing up the old
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which was canada's need this canada's need that and there's a bunch of peas we can always rely on
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the states for backup well we shouldn't have to rely on the united states for backup unless it's
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absolutely necessary because america believe it or not there's a lot of fucking work for other
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countries and they shouldn't have to and regardless of how you personally feel about the machine down
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south how our friends operate why should the american taxpayer have to foot the bill to look after our
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butts our british friends our german friends our french friends and maybe a natal ally out there
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why should we honestly there is no reason why canada cannot step up the plate to make the two percent
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the problem is and you've heard me rant about this before and there's been a lot of projection and
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conjection about it the thing is we've got too many admins and bureaucrats calling the shot
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there's too many procurement boards looking after things right it takes so long to get combats i mean
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you know clothing on a soldier's back they have to make a big a big program
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my fellow vets out there who remembers the close the soldier program where they brought in a whole new
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rucksack and a whole new web gear the whole tactical event and the helmet right and the cad pack
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right a whole big spiel all the postages around every military base about both the soldier both the
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soldier how much money that cost i wonder hmm interesting eh
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so when it comes to procurement it shouldn't be a chore but it's always been a chore for canada for the
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longest time why because there's slaps and tickles here slaps and tickles there because there's so
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many people who sit on these boards have to scratch their butts get a slap and tickle and get paid
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decide what kind of tires to put on a goddamn pickup truck or to decide what kind of screw and nut system
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you need for the ramp and lab and i've seen it ladies and gentlemen i've heard some really scary
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stories when it comes requiring tires a simple thing like tires or chairs right or cubicles
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for every office that sits in every battalion or every garrison or every squadron
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and a wife it gets ridiculous you know it gets ridiculous what computers they got to buy or what
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kind of paper they need what kind of pens and pencils are going to have for their pp and s catalogs
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right not to mention the administrative bs that takes to run a base right not to mention the
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administrative bs it takes to actually hire someone who acquires vehicles to move these vehicles in
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in a timely manner right so people forget at times and canada's excuse is that a lot of government
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and senior brass never cared and they don't now apparently down the state's bill blair received
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some scathing remarks in a professional manner mind you that canada's got to step up to the plate i'm
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going to do a video here uh canada's impastor to nato i forget her name um i was watching this today
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and i was just yeah she makes some valid points ladies and gentlemen when it comes to procuring
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defense in this country there's no more excuses as far as i'm concerned and i can guarantee you talk
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to any veteran that served in the 70s 80s and the decade of darkness the 90s they will tell you
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straight up too they will tell you straight up like dog fucking you know or like used to say shit or get
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off the pot right but you know what do we know right stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook
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and you're back ladies gentlemen episode 24 nato and the fire tax on your host crusty canuck
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and i'll just get the video here for you all to listen to ladies and gentlemen at your leisure
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and you know it's just basically about trying to get an actual plan in order to get things on the go
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you know unfortunately our leaders don't have a plan they sit there and just give us good salads
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so i hate to say it but it might take an actual war or something terrible to happen
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for our country to really wake up and smell the coffee
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10 years ago to commit to spend 2% of their gdp on defense by 2024 we were hoping that if allies
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couldn't meet that target they would have a plan in place to get to 2% within the next few years
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we were pleased to see that canada is making a pledge to get to 1.7 by the end of the decade
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but what we need is for the canadian government to issue some sort of plan to get to 2% in the years ahead
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every member of this alliance is either already at 2% about two-thirds of the alliance are going to
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hit that target by the summit in july or they have a plan to get to 2% in three to five years and so we
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want a situation where we can announce at the summit that every member of the alliance has a plan to get
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there if they're not there already has it ever been conveyed to you behind the scenes that canada does
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not plan to ever do that or have there been specifics attached perhaps behind the scenes
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in conveying to you of the fact that it might happen
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certainly the canadian delegation here and the canadian government has indicated that they take
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the pledge very seriously they signed on to it i think they had when they signed on to it every
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intention obviously of eventually meeting the commitment the question though again across the
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alliance is when will we see an actual plan to reach that two percent target and have
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clarity on how canada is going to get there i have not had any instance where any canadian official
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has told me they will not get there but i don't have any sign that there is a plan in place to get to
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that two percent mark i wanted to ask you a question that that may be obvious to you but but not to all
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our viewers and that is look canada has plotted this chart now you know of definitely an increase in
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defense spending historically speaking in this country at 1.7 why does the extra 0.3 matter so
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much to nato well i'll tell you uh the alliance last year at its summit in lithuania rolled out a new
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set of regional plans and what those plans mean is that every ally now has clarity on what they need to
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have in hand and what level of readiness their forces need to have to ensure that we can defend
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nato territory against russian aggression against any kind of aggression and even some hybrid threats
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that exist out there things like cyber attacks for example so in order to realize those regional plans
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and execute them as they are designed we need we have calculated that we need every member of the
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alliance to do its fair share we need every ally to spend the two percent of their own gdp and invest in
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their own national defense because those investments pay dividends for the alliance in enhancing our
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deterrence and defense and i do want to acknowledge that canada has made significant
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increases over the last couple of years and we are deeply appreciative of those increases
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particularly because they are challenging in the current political climate that we all find
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ourselves in there are competing priorities no doubt but given the state of the global security
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environment the challenges and the very real threats that the alliance faces today the threats
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stemming from russia and again other corners around the world it is imperative that every member meet
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the two percent pledge and i would note that last year at the summit we said that two percent should be
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seen as a floor not a ceiling you made some references to the threat that russia poses of course and what's
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happening in ukraine i think the the response from the federal government would be along the lines of on a
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per capita basis canada is one of the largest contributors to aid writ large for ukraine that we are
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leading the the nato um uh the nato mission in latvia and that our presence there is set to increase
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substantially like that that the that the canada is very aware of the threat that that you describe and has
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offered in their view i think a disproportionate uh number uh an amount of aid in order to address
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that threat is that argument not salient well look uh canada has provided critical assistance
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humanitarian economic security assistance to our friends in ukraine and like i said at the very top
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we do salute those efforts but every member of the alliance is providing critical assistance to ukraine
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it's a collective effort and we appreciate canada's leadership and we hope we will continue to see it
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and we hope all allies will continue their very important assistance to ukraine in terms of the
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leadership role that canada is playing in latvia that is also widely applauded across the alliance
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we want to ensure though that that multinational battalion that canada has committed to leading
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is scalable to a brigade and in order to ensure that that battalion is scalable to a brigade
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every country that's contributing to that battalion does need to invest in its armed forces to make
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sure that they have the necessary capabilities and that those forces are maintained at the right
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level of readiness this letter referenced that meeting coming up between nato allies in washington dc at the
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at the beginning of this summer and i wanted to ask i think you've outlined um what the the geopolitical
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stakes are if if nato members including canada do not set a path out to two percent are there specific
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consequences for canada if our government does not come to the table at that meeting with a path to
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two percent well ultimately it affects the way in which we're messaging burden sharing across the
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alliance it would be wonderful to come to the summit in july and have all 32 heads of state announce that
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we now have a situation where 20 or say 22 allies have met the two percent pledge and that every member of
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the alliance has a plan to get to two percent in the next few years that would be the best message
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to any sort of potential aggressor or certainly to moscow to be able to relay that message but would there
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be any sort of penalty absolutely not but i think the the fundamental goal here is for all 32 nations to lock
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arms and stand together on this pledge that we made 10 years ago we want canada to be part of that
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message we want to be to have canada there locking arms with us making that commitment to the two
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percent ambassador i'll leave it on that note i appreciate your time today as always thank you
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that's the thing we got to commit you know we keep hearing pay our fair share pay our fair share
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great we just kind of pay our fair share now i'm not dissing the ability and the integrity of my
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leaders people who respect me people who respect you my fellow vets but we're looking at the senior
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leadership and the civilian leadership not doing a goddamn thing they've been called on it's that
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simple so is it going to take a nasty war to wake the people up wake up the masses right
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is it going to take american guard for us is it going to take canadian rednecks to stand on guard for
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thee which is it something to think about ladies really no like as far as i can remember nato has
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been on canada's ass to do its part two percent gdp if the federal government and dish out six hundred
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billion dollars and put us in debt with one point trillion dollars one point two trillion
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then we can upgrade our military there's no more excuses for it you can put a lot of people to
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work to create the northern fuel line and reinforce it a lot of people get put to work to upgrade our
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bases a lot of people can still put to work getting things done to build proper ships proper
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submarines to acquire things you could get rid of all these boards all these admins and bureaucrats
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and put trained personnel in there to decide what ship is best for the water what airplane is good
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to the sky and what kind of apc or tank is good for the road or the battlefield
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anyhow ladies and gentlemen i've been crusty captain beautiful 26th of may 2024
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out there you know let's hope scary times don't come around go for the best prepare for the worst
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all that good stuff you'll see me again this tuesday for another exciting episode of the
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podcast and uh enjoy the rest of your evening in this moment
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do what you can have during the trying times look after your friends your loved ones your neighbors all
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that good stuff it's getting warmer outside so please hydrate if you have some overdue yard work
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get it done as best you can see the rest of the season prior to the next snowfall
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no worries i'm not anticipating that i just hope you have a good year
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and uh do try and just chill out and just try to do
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the best that's what i can say so i'll see you tuesday for another episode
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and like i always say ladies and gentlemen man in america wins the day
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this has been another episode of the crusty canuck podcast stay safe and thank you for listening
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast