Liberal government spent $170,000 on luxury travel for ISIS brides!
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Summary
A real story about Canadian government spending $170,000 to bring Canadian ISIS women home from Syria. I have a theory about why this is a good thing... it's because the Canadian government hired comedians to write jokes about it.
Transcript
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I have a new theory for why television shows like Saturday Night Live and This Hour Has 22 Minutes stop being funny.
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Maybe it's because the Canadian government has in fact been hiring all of the best comedy writers all over North America,
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because it is the only reasonable explanation for the story I am about to tell you about, and I swear this is real.
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It is not a parody, and when I had first read a tweet from Pierre Polyev about it, I assumed that he was just creating his own Babylon Bee headline,
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parodying how the liberal government spends money. But this is real, as I was saying.
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But before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the channel, leave a like on this video.
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But let's get over to the tweet by Pierre Polyev before we dive into the global news investigative piece on this issue.
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Well, Mr. Polyev, I have an explanation. It is because we have hired comedians into the Canadian government,
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so if the Canadian government is going to waste money, as is its want most of the time, at least we are going to be hilarious about it.
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And I have a rule on this show that I haven't said in a long time.
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If you're going to be corrupt, at least be hilarious about it, and this is slightly hilarious.
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Obviously, this is very bad, and we shouldn't be spending money like this, but it makes you smile so that you don't start crying.
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This, again, is a real story. I will be linking it in the description below, as well as in the top of the comments.
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Good job, you know, good work from Stephen Bell here.
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Wine, Candy, and Room Service, How Ottawa Spent $170,000 on Canadian ISIS Women.
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Okay, we're just going to read this because I cannot do a better job than the article of making this funny.
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Federal officers spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria,
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according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy, and wine.
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Really not sticking to that no alcohol rule, apparently, if they're joining ISIS.
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The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join Islamic State
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returned to Canada with their children in 22 and 2023.
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Newly released documents show Global Affairs Canada paid for business class flights
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stayed at the Montreal Airport Marriott, room service, chips, chocolate bars, and Timbits.
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One hotel room cost over $1,000 for two nights because of a $95 wine tab.
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Another ran $850 with charges for junk food and $25 servings of red, white, and sparkling wines.
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The cost included $2,800 for catering, $24 sandwiches at the hotel's Bioge restaurant bar,
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and $86 worth of snack foods over-the-counter drugs at the hotel gift shop.
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The expense report chronicled room service meals for more than $100, books, clothing, travel bags,
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Canadian pins, and a high-value token of appreciation purchased at Best Buy.
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A server pocketed a $7 tip for serving two $4 teas, according to the expense report,
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which also documented purchases of Doritos and Aero and Caramel bars.
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Well, at least they're being very Canadian about it.
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That's classic Canadiana to get some Aero bars and Caramelks.
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The expenses are for both the women and children, as well as the government staff,
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sent to receive them when they landed in Montreal before carrying on to their home provinces.
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And it says, and this is the next section, Canadian women in ISIL.
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The women were living in BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec when they left to live under ISIS,
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which had seized a swath of Syria and Iraq and launched a campaign of beheading and attacks on the West.
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As ISIS fell to Kurdish fighters backed by an international coalition,
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the Canadian women were captured and held with their children for several years
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The federal government agreed to bring them back to Canada after their families launched a challenge
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in federal court in Ottawa, demanding their return.
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This is not something I think we should be spending money on.
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You can read more about that story in the linked article in the description and at the top of the comments.
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But safe to say this is a bad use of taxpayer money.
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The fact that we were not just bringing them back to Canada,
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but giving them this first class treatment is utterly ridiculous.
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I don't care if they were in a detention camp for several years.
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If they actually care about their children, they can bring them back to Canada
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and they can stay in Syria and do whatever they want to do there.
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Because apparently they signed up for all of the beheadings, torture,
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and, you know, the Islamic caliphate that they entered for.
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So why is it so much worse to be living under the current pro-terror government?
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It's just a slightly different pro-terror government.
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In fact, the guy leading it right now in Syria, Jolwani, is a former ISIS lead.
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But I think al-Jolwani, the whole thing is stupid.
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We are bringing back ISIS terrorists, and we've not just brought back ISIS wives.
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We have, in fact, brought ISIS terrorists back.
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And then our rehabilitation was basically getting them to show up to, like, AA-style meetings,
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They show up and we tell them to beheading people is very bad.
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Hey, were you thinking of beheading that person over there?
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Go back to your job at a convenience store and do nothing bad.
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We should just be dropping these people over the ocean on the way back to Canada.
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They shouldn't be coming back when they are effectively, like, militants from a terror organization
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that does not exactly, you know, recognize the Geneva Convention.
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In fact, in normal wars, when you capture people who aren't following the Geneva Convention,
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not wearing uniforms, killing prisoners, doing all sorts of war crimes, you just shoot them.
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Because that's what you do with people who are breaking the rules.
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You're not supposed to be, you know, taking them back in and pretending like that was a phase.
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Anyways, I'm going to be clear, it's not a phase mom.
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They are, in fact, brutal terrorists who just didn't like the consequences of their own actions
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And at the same time, we can't deport any of the criminals that are entering Canada.
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We, in fact, let criminals go free in this country.
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We bring them in knowing they have criminal records and we pretend it didn't happen.
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In fact, our current public safety minister, oh, I forget what his name is.
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That guy was writing letters on behalf of terrorists, part of the Tamil Tigers,
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allowing them to come into the country, you know, intervening on their behalf
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so that Immigration Canada would allow them in to become asylum seekers or permanent residents.
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My party that I'm helping in British Columbia right now, 1BC,
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we are having to bring our own private prosecution against Charlotte Cates,
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who is the leader of Samadun in British Columbia,
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who helps promote terrorism as well as help fund terrorism.
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And the BC government cannot find a reason to actually prosecute her.
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So our leader, Dallas Brody, who in fact has a law degree from Princeton,
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is having to file the paperwork on behalf of the government to get the ball rolling.
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This is how pathetic the BC NDP government and their attorney general, Nikki Sharma, are.
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So, yeah, this is a microcosm of just how bad spending is in government.
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And I never want to hear it from liberal talking heads on social media saying,
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oh, conservatives are so simplistic when they think that you can just cut spending willy-nilly
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in order to balance the budget, in order to be able to cut people's taxes,
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in order to move it to more vital areas of government.
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Guys, if we're buying Beaujolais and Aero bars for ISIS brides,
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I can assure you that we could probably find money to give normal law-binding Canadians a tax cut.
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We're trying to confiscate law-binding Canadians' guns,
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banning handguns and different models of weapons that we are calling assault rifles.
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people who should not have their weapons taken away, we're targeting.
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But if you were a bride of ISIS, if you were a literal ISIS fighter, come back in.
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Whatever, it's like you were blocking traffic for a green movement,
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just attend a few meetings and clean up some garbage on the side of the road,
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And again, we have stories like this out there,
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and you will never have the left to sound off about it.
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I now need to bring up something that happened on social media yesterday
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that was so absurd it needs to be seen in terms of just the hypocrisy,
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in terms of the audacity to try and criticize pure Polyev
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attacking Polyev because, you know, he's 2% wrong about a particular issue.
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So I need you guys to check this out because it is hilarious.
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This is me going a little off reservation for this.
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It wasn't what I planned on doing in this video,
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but, you know, we're doing it, so let's jump right out.
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Well, you know, I thought about it, so we're doing it.
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He was attacking Polyev for pointing out that Pierre Polyev could not get,
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We couldn't get a deal, a good deal with the EU,
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but the Americans, Donald Trump, were able to get a commitment
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The EU is sending the U.S. $750 billion for three years of natural gas.
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The missed opportunities are piling up because Prime Minister Carney's liberals' anti-energy laws.
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And then we have here Max Fawcett coming in over the top rope with a very solid actually
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in order to say something completely inane that doesn't actually undermine Polyev's point.
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EU leaders pledged $750 billion in American energy purchases over three years.
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They figure almost everyone agrees is somewhere between unrealistic and a complete fantasy.
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And the man literally proceeds to have like a 15-post thread where he basically says,
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Well, yeah, the government is doing, the EU is committing to doing that,
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but maybe they're only going to be able to purchase $500 billion or $400 billion.
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The point is, the EU is purchasing American goods,
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maybe the EU and Canada will start trading a little bit more with each other.
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And Polyev is right that Trump is actually cutting deals
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where people are going to invest more in the United States,
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In fact, today, China has implemented a 75.8% tariff on our canola oil, our canola product.
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That means we basically can't export anything to China,
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even though it was one of our main export markets for canola.
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I thought we were going to expand trade to China and to the EU,
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and I don't think we should actually be trading more with China,
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but I'm not sure what Mark Carney is at this point.
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We have not actually found any lucrative trade deals since he came into office.
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and absolutely Carney did commit to trying to get a trade deal signed by August 1st.
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And now he's pretending like, whoa, what trade deal?
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even though they were the other country that didn't get a deal signed with the United States,
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considering that Carney was also trying to court the Chinese at the same time as all this.
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But we are giving a $1 billion to a CCP-linked firm to build ferries for the British Columbia government.
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Anyways, so make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, do all that stuff.
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Again, the ISIS article is in the description below if you want to read the whole thing.
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And make sure to comment on what you think about the story today,
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or maybe suggesting other things I should cover in the coming days.