Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault's fraud and lies get more ridiculous
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Summary
Randy Boissoneau is a Liberal MP from the riding of Edmonton Centre, Alberta, Canada. He is the Minister of Employment and Jobs and has been a part of the Liberal government for almost 20 years, serving as a cabinet minister and as a backbencher in both the previous government and the current government. He has been involved in corruption and corruption scandals, but he is still a member of the cabinet and has not been forced to resign yet.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and I am back to tell you the tale of Canada's most ridiculous
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Member of Parliament, that being MP Randy Boissoneau from the riding of Edmonton Centre.
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This guy, despite how ridiculous and corrupt he is, is still not only a member of the Liberal
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Party Caucus, he is still part of the Liberal Government Cabinet. He is our Minister of
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Employment and Jobs somehow, and that is going to become a more ridiculous fact as I lay out the
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story of this man. It is crazy that he has not been forced to resign yet, considering all of the
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problems he's causing for the Liberal Government. You know, I guess it's kind of fantastic because
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as a Conservative, I want the Liberals to be exposed for how ridiculous and corrupt they are overall,
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and Randy Boissoneau is the poster child for making it clear why we should never re-elect the
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Liberals to government again. But I'm going to go back a little bit into Randy's history before we
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catch up to some of the updates on what's been going on with him since the last video I made about him
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just a week ago. Yes, the news has been moving so fast there is a substantial amount of stuff to talk
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about since last week. But before I get into it all, I just want to remind you guys, if you're
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watching this video and you like this channel, make sure to subscribe to the channel and like the
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video. Around 75% of people watching any given video I make are not actually subscribers, even if
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they've watched several videos I've made over the past few months. Anyways, so Randy Boissoneau's
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electoral history is good to nail down first here. Because even though he's had two terms in
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government, they've been two non-consecutive terms. He was first elected in Edmonton Center
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back in 2015, but was defeated back in 2019. And then he wasn't an MP between 19 and 21 when he was
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then re-elected to this current parliament. That's key because when you do serve in government,
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especially when you're in the cabinet, you can't really be doing other business pursuits on the side.
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But when he was defeated in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic started up, Randy Boissoneau and his
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very sketchy friends started something called Global Health Imports. Now, this is basically just
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a corrupt company in order to sell contracts to other more competent companies who can actually
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bring in masks, ventilators, or any other supplies that the government or hospitals want. Because he has
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connections inside the liberal government, global health initiatives were able to get massive contracts
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from them and then basically just sell the contract to somebody else. They had nothing to do with
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actually acquiring medical supplies or doing anything health related. They would basically just be a
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middleman importer who would simply connect people without ever actually having to touch product
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or do anything in terms of logistics. They are useless. This is just standard government graft and
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corruption. Now, to get some of these contracts, Randy Boissoneau was basically able to get a foot up
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because he claimed, or at least the evidence suggests he claimed, that this was an indigenous-owned
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company. Because Randy Boissoneau, before he was defeated in 2019 and since he rejoined the government
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in 2021, has always sat in Parliament's indigenous caucus, you know, implying heavily that he is an
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indigenous person. And it's definitely not his business partner, Joseph Anderson here, who is the
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one who, or Stephen Anderson, who is claiming to be indigenous. This man is the whitest person on the
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planet, and he looks like he might have been the man who invented cocaine back in the day. This guy
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is obviously, with his last name Anderson, is not going to be the one who's proposing that maybe we
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should claim that we're indigenous-owned. I think it's the man named Randy Boissoneau, who despite not
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being indigenous at all, could maybe plausibly claim that he is Métis. And that is effectively what
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kind of came out in the last week here. Randy Boissoneau got caught once they were investigating
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his corruption that his firm had been pretending to be indigenous-owned. And I'm just going to bring
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this up on screen here because this was the most ridiculous part. The thing Randy Boissoneau did first
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upon this news coming out was blame Stephen Anderson for why Global Health Imports was claiming to be
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indigenous-owned. Again, he was claiming that Stephen Anderson, this guy, was claiming they were
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indigenous-owned. That doesn't really make any sense. Stephen Anderson is obviously not the one
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who has the plausible ability to claim he's indigenous. It's obviously Randy Boissoneau. And Randy
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basically says, well, Stephen just thought I was indigenous and then said we were indigenous-owned.
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That didn't really make sense. Randy Boissoneau is the guy who is going to have the most experience
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with working in government in order to get contracts. He has the connections to the Liberal Party.
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Why would he be the one filling out the paperwork? Why would Stephen Anderson be the one filling out the
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paperwork? And this week, now Randy Boissoneau has had to come out and say, well, I was never really
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that clear that I don't actually have an indigenous background. Here's a report from CTV News. And I just
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want to go down to this part, which is really ridiculous on how he would basically phrase
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whether or not he's indigenous. Randy would say he is non-status adopted Cree. So Randy Boissoneau
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is adopted. He was adopted into a Métis family in which the claim is that the great-grandmother was
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full-blooded Cree. Okay, that's great. You're still as white as Elizabeth Warren. You don't get
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to just adopt your way into then saying that you're indigenous. Now, we can have a discussion
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on whether or not the government should even be valuing whether a firm is indigenous-owned or black-owned
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or Indian-owned or white-owned. I think it's all silly. But those are the rules. He knows those
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are the rules. And by his own political stripe, he would consider this a massive racist violation of
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this program. So after he tried to throw Stephen Anderson under the bus, that went pear-shaped
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really quickly. And now he's being investigated for massive corruption in basically warping the
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contracts, the grant, the contracting programs, the contracting portals in government. Now, we have
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some more stuff to talk about because then there was another aspect of the story I talked about last
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time involving cocaine. You know, who could guess that this guy would somehow be involved in a story
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about cocaine. There was a business, this guy, Stephen Anderson, his friend, his associate, not that
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they work together in a literal sense, although that's going to get really fuzzy in a second here.
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When she was flying out of the Dominican Republic, I believe, she had tried to smuggle like 40 kilograms
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of cocaine on a plane and was caught and now was being prosecuted for it. That is a not unsubstantial
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amount of cocaine. You don't have to deal coke to know that that is like Pablo Escobar amounts of
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cocaine to try and smuggle on a plane. And for a while, it just seemed like that's a neat little
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funny part of the story. You know, these people are friends with people dealing cocaine. Randy thinks
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he's pretending he's indigenous. They're stealing government contracts to basically sell them to
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other people to actually fulfill them. It's nonsense. Oh, and by the way, another rub of all this
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is Randy Boissoneau was also effectively running global health imports. At the same time, he was
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also in cabinet. So when he got reelected, he did not leave the board. He kept operating the business.
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And then when people were like, well, who's this Randy doing all this stuff while you're in government?
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And he said, oh, that's the other Randy, which has become such a meme in Canadian politics that
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everything is just the other Randy. This is a firm with about four idiots working for it. And he's
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the only one named Randy. They can't get a last name on who this other Randy is. They have no phone
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number, email records of how to contact him. I guess they were talking to him by carrier pigeon.
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Or maybe Randy Boissoneau is a ridiculous liar. Hilarious, hilarious liar. That does make the story a
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little bit better. At least we all get a chuckle out of it. But he is a liar. But now,
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this is the new thing that's happened on the cocaine element. Here's from the National
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Post. Cabinet ministers firm shared mailing address with person named in cocaine bust.
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I don't know how this gets even crazier. I don't even need to read you the details because
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that's basically what was going on here. You got to know somebody pretty well to be sharing
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a mailing address for your highly profitable company with them. And when they're massively
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into trafficking cocaine, that sounds a little bit like, you know, we might want to see if
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you have any deeper connections with these people. And this story resulted in a very funny
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clip in Parliament where somebody gets up and they demand that Conservative MP Michael Barrett
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apologize for his unparliamentary behavior, his unparliamentary speech in referring to Randy
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Boissoneau as cocaine Randy. This needs to be seen to be believed.
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I see that the Honourable Minister is rising on a point of order. The Honourable Minister for International
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Involvement. The Honourable Member from Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes,
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at the conclusion of asking his question, as he was sitting down, called the Minister of Workforce,
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Employment and Workforce Development, cocaine Randy. That is extremely unparliamentary.
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And I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to ask him to withdraw that remark. Thank you very much.
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Can I just say, we should also start referring to Ahmed Hussein as Hamas Hussein, because that guy
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also went to Gaza to basically stump against the IDF fighting terrorists. But why would you even give
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Michael Barrett this setup? And I am proud to say Michael Barrett just dunked on him here.
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I see that the member from Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes is rising
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in response to this point of order. Speaker, I'm sure that I was referring to
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Parliament can often be very boring. And when you give an MP like Michael Barrett a setup like
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that, dude, he's coming over the top to dunk on you. Because the parliamentary language rules are so
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silly. You can't say anything even tinged with negativity about another MP. And the fact that
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he was able to scoot through cocaine Randy and then upon correction, he could use Randy's own
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stupid excuse as his excuse for not... No, I wasn't referring to him. I wasn't trying to disparage
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Randy Boissano. I was just disparaging other Randy. Because as we all know, other Randy has nothing in
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common with Randy Boissano. Oh, my goodness. These people don't deserve to be in government
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is the lesson here. And I am very happy that the conservative party and Pierre Polyev is now
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drilling on this issue of how corrupt this guy is. Pierre Polyev says this man is a total fraud,
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just like his boss. He lied about having indigenous heritage. His company profit off of tens of thousands
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of government dollars and contracts while he was a minister. Randy Boissano must resign. Sign here if
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you agree. I would say it gets even worse than that. Yes, he made tens of thousands of dollars on
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his company once he was in parliament. But that was late into COVID. He had also fleeced taxpayers for
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millions of dollars previously before 2022, when he was just taking these contracts, not fulfilling them
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and then giving them to other people. By the way, there are several hospitals or other health firms
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now suing global health imports, because they would get contracts, get paid to fulfill them,
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and then not deliver any of the medical supplies that they were supposed to. Because it turns out they
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were a useless middleman organization who doesn't even actually know many connections in the East in
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order to import masks, ventilators, and all these other things that these hospitals needed. This man
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is a full fabrication. He should not be in parliament at all. And the fact that he hasn't had to sit in
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front of a parliamentary committee or be investigated by the RCMP yet is utterly ridiculous. But what can
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you say? He is the most ridiculous MP, so the way that the government treats him and sort of soft
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toes around all of his obvious corruption is all part of the fun at this point. Anyways, that should
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