The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - November 19, 2024


Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault's fraud and lies get more ridiculous


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

160.38968

Word Count

2,497

Sentence Count

145

Hate Speech Sentences

5


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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and I am back to tell you the tale of Canada's most ridiculous
00:00:07.220 Member of Parliament, that being MP Randy Boissoneau from the riding of Edmonton Centre.
00:00:13.880 This guy, despite how ridiculous and corrupt he is, is still not only a member of the Liberal
00:00:20.520 Party Caucus, he is still part of the Liberal Government Cabinet. He is our Minister of
00:00:27.200 Employment and Jobs somehow, and that is going to become a more ridiculous fact as I lay out the
00:00:34.320 story of this man. It is crazy that he has not been forced to resign yet, considering all of the
00:00:41.660 problems he's causing for the Liberal Government. You know, I guess it's kind of fantastic because
00:00:46.160 as a Conservative, I want the Liberals to be exposed for how ridiculous and corrupt they are overall,
00:00:51.740 and Randy Boissoneau is the poster child for making it clear why we should never re-elect the
00:00:58.000 Liberals to government again. But I'm going to go back a little bit into Randy's history before we
00:01:04.360 catch up to some of the updates on what's been going on with him since the last video I made about him
00:01:10.560 just a week ago. Yes, the news has been moving so fast there is a substantial amount of stuff to talk
00:01:17.000 about since last week. But before I get into it all, I just want to remind you guys, if you're
00:01:22.740 watching this video and you like this channel, make sure to subscribe to the channel and like the
00:01:27.580 video. Around 75% of people watching any given video I make are not actually subscribers, even if
00:01:34.100 they've watched several videos I've made over the past few months. Anyways, so Randy Boissoneau's
00:01:40.980 electoral history is good to nail down first here. Because even though he's had two terms in
00:01:46.140 government, they've been two non-consecutive terms. He was first elected in Edmonton Center
00:01:51.540 back in 2015, but was defeated back in 2019. And then he wasn't an MP between 19 and 21 when he was
00:02:00.480 then re-elected to this current parliament. That's key because when you do serve in government,
00:02:08.400 especially when you're in the cabinet, you can't really be doing other business pursuits on the side.
00:02:13.360 But when he was defeated in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic started up, Randy Boissoneau and his
00:02:20.360 very sketchy friends started something called Global Health Imports. Now, this is basically just
00:02:27.180 a corrupt company in order to sell contracts to other more competent companies who can actually
00:02:33.340 bring in masks, ventilators, or any other supplies that the government or hospitals want. Because he has
00:02:40.420 connections inside the liberal government, global health initiatives were able to get massive contracts
00:02:45.500 from them and then basically just sell the contract to somebody else. They had nothing to do with
00:02:52.040 actually acquiring medical supplies or doing anything health related. They would basically just be a
00:02:58.080 middleman importer who would simply connect people without ever actually having to touch product
00:03:03.000 or do anything in terms of logistics. They are useless. This is just standard government graft and
00:03:10.140 corruption. Now, to get some of these contracts, Randy Boissoneau was basically able to get a foot up
00:03:17.720 because he claimed, or at least the evidence suggests he claimed, that this was an indigenous-owned
00:03:23.800 company. Because Randy Boissoneau, before he was defeated in 2019 and since he rejoined the government
00:03:30.720 in 2021, has always sat in Parliament's indigenous caucus, you know, implying heavily that he is an
00:03:39.080 indigenous person. And it's definitely not his business partner, Joseph Anderson here, who is the
00:03:44.560 one who, or Stephen Anderson, who is claiming to be indigenous. This man is the whitest person on the
00:03:50.360 planet, and he looks like he might have been the man who invented cocaine back in the day. This guy
00:03:55.960 is obviously, with his last name Anderson, is not going to be the one who's proposing that maybe we
00:04:02.260 should claim that we're indigenous-owned. I think it's the man named Randy Boissoneau, who despite not
00:04:08.240 being indigenous at all, could maybe plausibly claim that he is Métis. And that is effectively what
00:04:15.400 kind of came out in the last week here. Randy Boissoneau got caught once they were investigating
00:04:21.800 his corruption that his firm had been pretending to be indigenous-owned. And I'm just going to bring
00:04:27.080 this up on screen here because this was the most ridiculous part. The thing Randy Boissoneau did first
00:04:32.520 upon this news coming out was blame Stephen Anderson for why Global Health Imports was claiming to be
00:04:41.780 indigenous-owned. Again, he was claiming that Stephen Anderson, this guy, was claiming they were
00:04:50.040 indigenous-owned. That doesn't really make any sense. Stephen Anderson is obviously not the one
00:04:56.560 who has the plausible ability to claim he's indigenous. It's obviously Randy Boissoneau. And Randy
00:05:04.020 basically says, well, Stephen just thought I was indigenous and then said we were indigenous-owned.
00:05:09.800 That didn't really make sense. Randy Boissoneau is the guy who is going to have the most experience
00:05:16.440 with working in government in order to get contracts. He has the connections to the Liberal Party.
00:05:21.460 Why would he be the one filling out the paperwork? Why would Stephen Anderson be the one filling out the
00:05:25.560 paperwork? And this week, now Randy Boissoneau has had to come out and say, well, I was never really
00:05:31.840 that clear that I don't actually have an indigenous background. Here's a report from CTV News. And I just
00:05:39.060 want to go down to this part, which is really ridiculous on how he would basically phrase
00:05:45.280 whether or not he's indigenous. Randy would say he is non-status adopted Cree. So Randy Boissoneau
00:05:54.400 is adopted. He was adopted into a Métis family in which the claim is that the great-grandmother was
00:06:01.780 full-blooded Cree. Okay, that's great. You're still as white as Elizabeth Warren. You don't get
00:06:08.940 to just adopt your way into then saying that you're indigenous. Now, we can have a discussion
00:06:14.440 on whether or not the government should even be valuing whether a firm is indigenous-owned or black-owned
00:06:21.120 or Indian-owned or white-owned. I think it's all silly. But those are the rules. He knows those
00:06:26.740 are the rules. And by his own political stripe, he would consider this a massive racist violation of
00:06:33.900 this program. So after he tried to throw Stephen Anderson under the bus, that went pear-shaped
00:06:40.280 really quickly. And now he's being investigated for massive corruption in basically warping the
00:06:49.160 contracts, the grant, the contracting programs, the contracting portals in government. Now, we have
00:06:57.300 some more stuff to talk about because then there was another aspect of the story I talked about last
00:07:04.120 time involving cocaine. You know, who could guess that this guy would somehow be involved in a story
00:07:10.620 about cocaine. There was a business, this guy, Stephen Anderson, his friend, his associate, not that
00:07:18.500 they work together in a literal sense, although that's going to get really fuzzy in a second here.
00:07:24.540 When she was flying out of the Dominican Republic, I believe, she had tried to smuggle like 40 kilograms
00:07:30.940 of cocaine on a plane and was caught and now was being prosecuted for it. That is a not unsubstantial
00:07:38.820 amount of cocaine. You don't have to deal coke to know that that is like Pablo Escobar amounts of
00:07:46.080 cocaine to try and smuggle on a plane. And for a while, it just seemed like that's a neat little
00:07:52.080 funny part of the story. You know, these people are friends with people dealing cocaine. Randy thinks
00:07:57.020 he's pretending he's indigenous. They're stealing government contracts to basically sell them to
00:08:02.780 other people to actually fulfill them. It's nonsense. Oh, and by the way, another rub of all this
00:08:07.520 is Randy Boissoneau was also effectively running global health imports. At the same time, he was
00:08:13.860 also in cabinet. So when he got reelected, he did not leave the board. He kept operating the business.
00:08:19.240 And then when people were like, well, who's this Randy doing all this stuff while you're in government?
00:08:24.420 And he said, oh, that's the other Randy, which has become such a meme in Canadian politics that
00:08:31.620 everything is just the other Randy. This is a firm with about four idiots working for it. And he's
00:08:37.720 the only one named Randy. They can't get a last name on who this other Randy is. They have no phone
00:08:43.340 number, email records of how to contact him. I guess they were talking to him by carrier pigeon.
00:08:49.260 Or maybe Randy Boissoneau is a ridiculous liar. Hilarious, hilarious liar. That does make the story a
00:08:57.180 little bit better. At least we all get a chuckle out of it. But he is a liar. But now,
00:09:01.620 this is the new thing that's happened on the cocaine element. Here's from the National
00:09:07.720 Post. Cabinet ministers firm shared mailing address with person named in cocaine bust.
00:09:16.460 I don't know how this gets even crazier. I don't even need to read you the details because
00:09:23.200 that's basically what was going on here. You got to know somebody pretty well to be sharing
00:09:30.680 a mailing address for your highly profitable company with them. And when they're massively
00:09:37.780 into trafficking cocaine, that sounds a little bit like, you know, we might want to see if
00:09:44.740 you have any deeper connections with these people. And this story resulted in a very funny
00:09:51.380 clip in Parliament where somebody gets up and they demand that Conservative MP Michael Barrett
00:09:59.180 apologize for his unparliamentary behavior, his unparliamentary speech in referring to Randy
00:10:07.400 Boissoneau as cocaine Randy. This needs to be seen to be believed.
00:10:12.020 I see that the Honourable Minister is rising on a point of order. The Honourable Minister for International
00:10:17.620 Involvement. The Honourable Member from Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes,
00:10:22.040 at the conclusion of asking his question, as he was sitting down, called the Minister of Workforce,
00:10:28.940 Employment and Workforce Development, cocaine Randy. That is extremely unparliamentary.
00:10:33.400 And I ask you, Mr. Speaker, to ask him to withdraw that remark. Thank you very much.
00:10:41.540 Can I just say, we should also start referring to Ahmed Hussein as Hamas Hussein, because that guy
00:10:48.580 also went to Gaza to basically stump against the IDF fighting terrorists. But why would you even give
00:10:55.900 Michael Barrett this setup? And I am proud to say Michael Barrett just dunked on him here.
00:11:03.400 I see that the member from Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes is rising
00:11:12.020 in response to this point of order. Speaker, I'm sure that I was referring to
00:11:17.700 the other Randy as cocaine.
00:11:19.320 Parliament can often be very boring. And when you give an MP like Michael Barrett a setup like
00:11:38.080 that, dude, he's coming over the top to dunk on you. Because the parliamentary language rules are so
00:11:44.320 silly. You can't say anything even tinged with negativity about another MP. And the fact that
00:11:49.920 he was able to scoot through cocaine Randy and then upon correction, he could use Randy's own
00:11:55.440 stupid excuse as his excuse for not... No, I wasn't referring to him. I wasn't trying to disparage
00:12:01.220 Randy Boissano. I was just disparaging other Randy. Because as we all know, other Randy has nothing in
00:12:07.940 common with Randy Boissano. Oh, my goodness. These people don't deserve to be in government
00:12:16.880 is the lesson here. And I am very happy that the conservative party and Pierre Polyev is now
00:12:23.140 drilling on this issue of how corrupt this guy is. Pierre Polyev says this man is a total fraud,
00:12:30.220 just like his boss. He lied about having indigenous heritage. His company profit off of tens of thousands
00:12:35.700 of government dollars and contracts while he was a minister. Randy Boissano must resign. Sign here if
00:12:42.080 you agree. I would say it gets even worse than that. Yes, he made tens of thousands of dollars on
00:12:46.820 his company once he was in parliament. But that was late into COVID. He had also fleeced taxpayers for
00:12:53.320 millions of dollars previously before 2022, when he was just taking these contracts, not fulfilling them
00:13:00.820 and then giving them to other people. By the way, there are several hospitals or other health firms
00:13:06.140 now suing global health imports, because they would get contracts, get paid to fulfill them,
00:13:12.200 and then not deliver any of the medical supplies that they were supposed to. Because it turns out they
00:13:17.340 were a useless middleman organization who doesn't even actually know many connections in the East in
00:13:24.360 order to import masks, ventilators, and all these other things that these hospitals needed. This man
00:13:29.820 is a full fabrication. He should not be in parliament at all. And the fact that he hasn't had to sit in
00:13:37.560 front of a parliamentary committee or be investigated by the RCMP yet is utterly ridiculous. But what can
00:13:44.460 you say? He is the most ridiculous MP, so the way that the government treats him and sort of soft
00:13:50.860 toes around all of his obvious corruption is all part of the fun at this point. Anyways, that should
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