Carney Liberals use majority to COVER UP Corruption!
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The Liberals are using their majority in the House of Commons to try and shield the Finance Minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, from any investigation into his massive conflict of interest involving the Alto High-Speed Train between Toronto and Quebec City.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
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I need to bring this story to your guys' attention. You've probably already heard
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about the conflict of interest issues around the Alto high-speed train between Toronto and Quebec
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City. The Finance Minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, has a wife and she works as the Vice
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President of Environment at Alto, and the Liberal government is giving $90 billion to Alto, a
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Crown Corporation to build this train. Although if you look at other cost estimates, the thing
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could balloon all the way to $200 billion. So shortly after Mark Carney got his liberal
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majority just two days ago, the liberals are suddenly trying to shut down any inquiry into
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the massive conflict of interest that the finance minister has with this train that he did not
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disclose until several months later after it was already passed in the budget and he had advocated
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for not taking it out of the budget to be voted on separately. The way he has acted during all this
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has been extremely unethical and now the liberals are going to use their majority to try and shield
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Mr. Champagne. There is something even crazier that happened. The day of the majority government
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in this video the conservatives were talking about how the liberals were filibustering to
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prevent Mr. Champagne from actually having to come and testify in front of the ethics committee.
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They were running out the clock knowing that by the end of the night they would have a majority
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government and when they came back they would be able to basically say well we now have the votes
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to not actually be able to like force Champagne to testify. Absolutely insane. We're going to get
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into this in just a second here but first I just have to remind you guys if you like the channel
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Of course the liberals are using their majority to try and excuse corruption, what else would they have done with it?
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But anyways, let's get into this video that was shot the night of the by-election before Carney officially had his majority, where these three conservative MPs, Tamara Jensen in the center, Leila Goodridge on the right, and Arnold Vearson on the left, were talking about them waiting out the clock.
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Okay, so here we are. It's seven hours of filibuster that happened here at Ethics Committee, and I think we've seen some crazy stuff happening, all because we're trying to have the finance minister come here and talk to us about the recusing himself from the $90 billion speed ultra rail system, and he was recusing himself actually retroactively.
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So we're trying to get this guy to come here and talk about it.
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But they're so scared of him talking about it that they actually filibustered the entire meeting.
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So before we get to him, if you're unaware, so what Francois-Philippe Champagne had done is just this month in April,
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he suddenly says, oh, yeah, of course I declared my conflict of interest and recused myself from any decisions around Alto Train.
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and he claimed that he had done it back in September 2025.
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The problem was is that he had been advocating for not only the budget that the Alto train was in,
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but he literally blocked the other parties, the opposition, he fought the opposition
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to not remove the Alto train from the budget and have it be voted on separately
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so that it wasn't basically going to get passed in this giant pork-barreled budget.
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You know, usually the budget is always like a big chunk of expenses altogether.
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But with the Alto train being so expensive, naturally the Conservatives wanted to take it out and study it.
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But no, no, no, Francois-Philippe Champagne fought tooth and nail to make sure that it was just going to be part of the normal budget vote.
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Probably the Bloc Québécois were happy with it, too, since it's a train to come back.
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But he never actually declared that he had a conflict of interest there, that his wife was the VP of Environment at Alto.
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And let's be clear, VP of Environment at Alto is what we call a fake patronage job.
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It's a way of being able to get the influence of Francois-Philippe Champagne in favor of
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your train because you hired his wife into a fakie, stupid position.
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But I'll let Arnold Viersen take it away from here.
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So it's about 10 minutes after 10 Eastern time right now, and we've been here all evening
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listening to the liberals read stuff into the record, basically do whatever it takes
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to make sure that the minister doesn't have to appear at the committee coming.
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I'm sure we'll see the Liberals continue to filibuster our motion
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to bring the minister to talk about his relationship with the company ILO,
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which is one to have a big high-speed rail from Montreal to Toronto.
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But now that they have a majority, it's not even difficult to filibuster
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Well, they can basically just prevent the Conservatives and the opposition
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from forcing him to actually speak because they have a majority
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and they can waste as much time as they want since they now control the meetings.
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You know, even if the Bloc Québécois are in favor of the train,
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they'd probably still be at least somewhat interested in uncovering some liberal corruption
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They may still say that the train should go forward,
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but Francois-Philippe Champagne should maybe have to resign.
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But now, because they waited out the clock a couple days ago for Carney to get his majority,
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it's now far, far easier for them to make sure that he's never going to have to testify.
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We will be getting to Francois-Philippe Champagne responding a little bit later, and now the Conservatives continuing to go after this issue.
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This is such a good issue for the Conservatives.
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Liberals have a majority government now, but if you don't know anything about federal politics, you might not know that, or I want to phrase it that way.
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That sounded really, I didn't mean to sound like arrogance there or anything like that.
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But federal politics, majorities are far more delicate than a provincial majority.
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Provincial majority, you can just hammer stuff through all day long, no matter how small your majority is.
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Carney with only a one seat majority is going to be very, it's still going to be very difficult for
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him to pass stuff. Because your opposition, unless you have like 60% of the seats, your opposition
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can hold you up, force you to answer questions, force you through more debates, force you through
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more amendments, force you through more committees to study things. But the thing is that there is
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difference between a minority where you can be forced to testify in that situation, and now
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having this majority where they can basically have Francois-Philippe Champagne always have an
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excuse not to testify anymore because of the power they now have on all the committees.
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Sounds like his girlfriend or his wife or somebody, she's a big executive there. You know,
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they were so worried about us actually getting to a vote that they talked about like going to
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the moon. They talked about, you know, high speed rail in France and in England. What did you think
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about the whole thing? Well, and I think this is, I guess, more par for the course. Like they are so
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afraid of having light on this. And realistically, if nothing's wrong, then it shouldn't be a big
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deal. Like this is, if they have done nothing wrong, if the minister of finance has done nothing
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wrong, then why is he afraid of coming to committee? He comes to committee on a regular
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basis. He's actually relatively good at committee compared to many other ministers. So this really,
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the fact that this is where they've chosen, this is the hill they are dying on, tells us
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that something isn't quite right. And so we're going to continue pushing. We're going to continue
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holding them accountable, because frankly, Canadians deserve to know. So we don't need to
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listen to the rest of this now. But this is a money issue for the Conservatives. I think that
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Polly should go full We Charity scandal on this and show all of the ethics commissioner updates,
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all of the conflict of interest screening updates that probably didn't include Champagne's
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disclosure that his wife works for Alto for months and months and months. Because although he claims
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that he did it back in September. The ethics commissioner has no record that he ever did it
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until April when he suddenly said he did it back in September, but he didn't do it in September.
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He just did it now. Polly should come out with just a giant binder full of every single week
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what was this in his conflict of interest screening. Show every single week his conflict
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of interest screening on the archive saying nothing about this because I believe that
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every certain period of time, there's kind of like an update to the conflict of interest screenings
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and show for literally days and days and months and months, he had not actually included this
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because he didn't want people to know because it would have made it harder for him to advocate
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for giving the company his wife works for $90 billion, if not $200 billion. Here's him on the
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CBC trying to defend himself and pretend he's done nothing wrong here. And that's the kind of
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engagement you know you should take that from a majority government first thing we do is to
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uh give a break to the canadians and um that's the that's serious i would say government at a
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serious time you know because when you're in the opposition it's easy to say whatever you want
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uh even false allegations but when you're in government uh you have to make sure that what
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you say is responsible and that's what we show the canadians it's a false allegation that they're
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making in opposition uh but he still won't actually come to the committee so he is saying
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that it is false that if you look at the record it will be proven to be false but he needed his
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own colleagues to filibuster for several hours to make sure that he didn't actually have to testify
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they took a knee until the election the by-elections were done so that he didn't actually
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have to you know answer any questions here's michael barrett in question period yesterday
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following up on this issue with the finance minister at least 90 billion taxpayer dollars
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are at stake in the alto high-speed rail project and canadians deserve to know that personal
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relationships aren't influencing government decisions and the finance minister recognized
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the risk of a conflict of interest with his partner serving as a vice president at alto and
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the law says that he can't be part of decisions discussions debates or votes when it comes to alto
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canadians deserve to have confidence in their public institutions in all elected officials
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and especially when 90 billion dollars at stake so will the minister come before committee and
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address this conflict of interest well he's not going to come for committee because he doesn't
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have to anymore and and that's the problem he could technically vote for a budget that alto
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was included in but that's why he fought tooth and nail to not include not not separate alto out
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which is still actually something he should have not been able to vote on but he fought tooth and
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nail so then he wouldn't have to vote on alto funding by itself he wanted to keep it in the
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giant budget for plausible deniability that his votes just generally for the budget doesn't have
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anything specifically to do with alto although it does because he blocked them separating out
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the alto funding from the rest of the spending so here we go with the answer from the liberal
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government the honorable government house leader mr speaker the minister has already answered that
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question. There is no risk, of course, and the minister complies, as we all must, with some of
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the most stringent ethics rules in the world. As for Alto, as for high-speed rail in Canada,
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it is a generational project, one that is desired by people in that member's riding and people all
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over Canada. So I shouldn't have to tell you that was a non-answer. Oh, he follows all the
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stringent requirements yes he eventually follows them you know seven eight months later that's
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kind of a bit too late do you get to basically be as corrupt as you want in government and then
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after you retire say oh by the way i had a stake in every single one of those companies that we
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gave money to just so that everyone knows i'm following the rules here of course honorable
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member for leeds leeds grenville thousand islands middle league we've got the government house
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leader disagreeing with his finance minister here and this is the confusion that's created for
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canadians it's the finance minister who said that he needed to recuse himself from the discussions
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he said he needed to put in place a conflict of interest screen but then went ahead and
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participated in discussions debates even said at senate committee that he was delivering the
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goods for canadians well if he's recused himself why is he also voting on this issue in the house
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canadians have concerns about how this 90 billion dollars is being spent they're concerned about
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this conflict of interest why won't the finance minister speak for himself get on his feet and
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say he'll come to committee and address it well again to answer that's because he doesn't have
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to at this point it doesn't matter what's ethical or not he doesn't want to get caught in a lie here
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uh and naturally the other answer was not included there because it's literally the same thing from
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steve mckinnon just a very like you know arrogant noises uh you know people in your constituency
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want this train, do they? It's a train with five stops between Toronto and Quebec City for minimum
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$90 billion, up to $200 billion. Don't we have a deficit? Don't we have a deficit problem? Don't
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we have a debt problem? Apparently, we don't. Apparently, we have enough in the budget, we have
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enough room to include another $200 billion train project that's going to be paid out over the next
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dozen years or so. Oh my goodness. Here's a post right here from another member of the
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Ethics Committee, Michael Cooper. I think he's a really great MP. I think I put him in my top 10
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conservative MPs. Michael Cooper here says, breaking, last night the Liberals blocked an
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ethics probe into Minister Champagne for directing billions of tax dollars to Aalto, where his
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partner is a VP. CPC is calling Ethics Committee back today. Canadians deserve answers. Liberals
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must stop covering up for Champagne. Now, this is the difference between provincial and federal.
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The Conservatives can force the Ethics Committee to come back, or they can call for it to come back,
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but the Liberals, because they have a majority, can basically just waste the entire meeting and
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make it sure it goes nowhere. But the Conservatives should just doggedly keep pushing on this every
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single day. They should do rallies in Champagne's riding. They should be going, having investigative
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journalists look into him and look into his wife's connections with alto over time did she only jump
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on right when alto was lobbying the government in order to get the money i wouldn't be that shocked
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because again her job there is pretty frivolous it's the environment vice president i don't think
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that the company won't be able to survive this crown corporation won't be able to survive without
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the vice president of environment it again seems like it's almost like you gave someone's spouse
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a fakie job in order so that you know the minister has a personal interest in making sure it gets all
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the money that it wants. But yeah, so this isn't great. This is a really good reason why we shouldn't
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be giving majority governments to the liberals, but I guess Canadians wanted to do it. But
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here's another corruption issue that came up. There's also Tamara Jensen questioning somebody
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in a committee meeting about Brookfield and all of the connections that they have to a lot of the
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projects that are getting money right now or the projects but a bunch of the
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changes that they made in in basically tracking money that goes into the
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government we studied the follow-up fallout from the Panama papers one of
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the largest financial leaks in history and what did we hear at that time we
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heard that billions of dollars were being routed through shell companies
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hidden in offshore jurisdictions shielded from transparency and in many
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cases beyond the reach of enforcement we heard plain as day that canada really had a problem
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and not a small not a small one a structural one so uh the agency at the center of that fight is
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fintrac this is the body responsible for tracking suspicious financial transactions identifying
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money laundering and passing intelligence to law enforcement it's literally the follow the money
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agency so here's my problem at the very moment when financial crime is becoming more sophisticated
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when we're dealing with fentanyl trafficking organized crime sanctions evasions international
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capital flows we're now talking about cuts to fin track cuts uh so i just want to connect it
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to something a little bit more recent so we've seen repeated concerns about canadian money
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pension money investment capital flowing through offshore jurisdictions like bermuda or the cayman
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islands and we know that brookfield who our prime minister is linked to has investment structures
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involving offshore jurisdictions to be clear offshore structures are not automatically
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illegal but that's exactly the point that's what we learned from the panama papers that the issue
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isn't always illegality it's lack of transparency now it's the ability to move money through complex
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structures where ownership is obscured tax obligations are minimized and accountability
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becomes optional and that's precisely the space that fin track is supposed to monitor
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so let me ask the obvious question how can we possibly claim to be serious about financial
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transparency, when we're making cuts to the very agency tasked with detecting suspicious financial
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flows. When it comes to the actual enforcement capacity, we're pulling back. It seems to me
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it's like installing a state of the art alarm system and firing the security guard.
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Yeah, so that's not great. Very shortly after Mark Carney became Prime Minister,
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suddenly all the things that actually hold, you know, that actually make sure that we track where
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money is going outside of the country. Fintrac is just being heavily defunded right now. Just so
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happens to be under the watch of the Prime Minister who has the greatest amount of conflicts
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of interest in terms of all of his investments and what the government chooses to actually put
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its money into. Yeah, that's not sketchy at all that Canadian pension funds could be investing
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in Brookfield assets, and we wouldn't know it because Fintrac can't actually track it.
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fantastic guys uh you know it's good that we gave this liberal government a majority because
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i don't know uh i guess we'd be able to hold them accountable and that's the bad thing so i guess
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for mark carney this is all fantastic because he can now do whatever he wants his ministers do not
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have to testify about potential corruption issues and we can defund even though we have a 90 like
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what is it like a 78 billion 85 billion dollar deficit federally right now for some reason that
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the one area of government we did have to cut spending was the one that can track financial
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crimes and the misuse of tax dollars fantastic offshore bank accounts galore anyways with that
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all being said thank you guys for watching make sure to like subscribe share do all that fantastic