Justin Trudeau has removed Randy Boissoneau from the Liberal government's cabinet, and a new minister has been named to replace him. This is the latest in a series of scandals that have plagued Randy since he was first elected to Parliament in 2015. He's been accused of running a fake health care company with some of his friends, lying to get government contracts, and falsely claiming to be Indigenous to get better access to government contracts.
00:00:00.000I'm in Vancouver right now, but I couldn't resist covering this story because it's just so funny.
00:00:06.320So as of 20 minutes ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just removed Randy Boissoneau from the Liberal Government Cabinet.
00:00:15.980I don't know why this guy was a cabinet minister in the first place, but Randy used to be our Minister of Employment and Workforce or whatever it was.
00:00:26.540And he's been plagued with scandals for about three or four months now.
00:00:31.280You probably already know about the whole other Randy thing where he's running this fake health care firm with some of his friends.
00:00:39.060He's claiming to be Indigenous to get better access to government contracts.
00:00:43.700They're not even fulfilling the government health care contracts.
00:00:46.200They're just acting as a stupid middleman organization that takes government contracts because of his connections to the Liberal Party and then selling them to other people who can actually fulfill them.
00:00:56.920He was a Liberal MP between 2015 and 2019, and then he was out of office between 2019 and 2021.
00:01:04.020And that's when he started all of this health care firm stuff.
00:01:06.760But he kept carrying it on after he was already re-elected and acting as a cabinet minister.
00:01:13.920And that's where all this other Randy stuff came from, because he had to blame his corruption on somebody else.
00:01:20.100And he said it was just another guy named Randy, which was obviously a lie.
00:01:25.040Now, I have to give credit here to Anthony Koch, because this man called it as tightly as you could possibly call it.
00:01:33.160Angelo Isidoro, the director of the B.C. Conservative Party's campaign, actually clipped this together because it was hilarious how well it lined up.
00:01:43.120He said, shot chaser, because Anthony Koch said, Randy Boissoneau will be out of cabinet by the end of this week.
00:01:50.320That was six minutes ago at the time that this was screenshot.
00:01:53.900And then one minute ago, Robert Fyfe, PMO statement, the Prime Minister and MP Randy Boissoneau have agreed that Mr. Boissoneau will step away from cabinet effective immediately.
00:02:05.560Mr. Boissoneau will focus on clearing the allegations made against him.
00:02:09.780Minister Jeanette Petipas-Taylor will temporarily assume his position.
00:02:15.460I don't know how to, you know, say French people's name, even if that's not a French person.
00:02:20.280And I don't know, I don't care, because I'm bad at pronouncing names and I'm never going to get better at it.
00:02:25.860But the funny thing about this was that there was already just cause to remove Randy months ago, even before all the cocaine Randy and nose candy Randy stuff already came out.
00:02:39.020That was something that was reported three days ago by the National Post and other outlets saying that they were literally this fake global health imports firm that Randy and his weirdo friends were running.
00:02:51.500I have to highlight what his friend looks like, Stephen Anderson, who looks like a man who invented cocaine back in the 70s.
00:02:58.240That those guys also were sharing a mailing address with someone who was implicated in a cocaine bust that recently happened.
00:03:09.840But there was already good enough reason to get rid of Randy Boissoneau.
00:03:14.100The amount of government graft, taking contracts that he had no ability to actually fulfill just to sell them to other people.
00:03:21.420It's saying that he was an indigenous to get a leg up on his competition for these contracts.
00:03:27.660And but the real reason that Randy Boissoneau seems to have been kicked out was effectively woke reasons that Randy Boissoneau had this tape come out yesterday, which seems to be the tipping point where in the midst of him saying, oh, I've just been misspeaking.
00:03:42.240I'm not actually, you know, I'm not actually indigenous.
00:03:45.720I never tried to say I was indigenous.
00:04:01.100But he was really kicked out because of this tape that came out yesterday where he gets up on stage and he then calls himself Strong Eagle Man, basically saying I'm indigenous.
00:04:16.380I'm indigenous because my indigenous name means Strong Eagle Man.
00:04:20.640And my favorite response to Randy Boissoneau being removed from cabinet was from my colleague Daniel Boardman, who sometimes does streams with me in his own videos.
00:04:31.060He said Eagle down as soon as Randy Boissoneau was removed from cabinet.
00:04:34.920But here is the tape that basically got this guy removed from cabinet.
00:04:39.680This was shortly after he was reelected back in 2021.
00:04:50.640I do like the cheeky edit people have done of like showing him like putting the hand sanitizer on his hands.
00:05:23.580I'm the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, but I'm also known as Strong Eagle Man in the Cree community.
00:05:29.980And I'm delighted to be here with Enoch Cree Nation Chief.
00:05:32.900And I would like to acknowledge the territory that we are on is on Treaty 6 lands.
00:05:37.000And I'd like to recognize Chief Billy Morin for your hospitality and your partnership across so many files on behalf of your people and on behalf of indigenous peoples in this part of Turtle Island.
00:05:49.460And the funny thing there is he was acknowledging Chief Billy Morin, who himself is now a Conservative Party nominee for one of the ridings up in Edmonton.
00:05:58.160I think it's the new riding in Edmonton that he's going to be the candidate for.
00:06:01.480But everything he's saying there is heavily implying that he's indigenous, saying, well, you know, here's some Cree I'm speaking, and this means this.
00:06:10.040And it's like you only usually would say that or you'd assume someone would say that because the whole point is that they have personal expertise.
00:06:18.300They are acting like, you know, for the non-indigenous people in the room, he is your guide to indigenous culture because he is strong eagle man.
00:06:27.360But this is probably why Justin Trudeau kicked him out of cabinet, is that Randy Boissoneau has now committed crimes against the woke, that you're not supposed to pretend that you're indigenous, especially in this manner.
00:06:42.040You're not supposed to be pretending to be Cree.
00:07:06.860And I have to I have to actually just highlight another tweet here from somebody I know who I think that this sums it up quite well, the media coverage of this.
00:08:13.920Like, where was the coverage of this big blockbuster scandal?
00:08:18.140If a conservative even has a hair at a place on their heads, the CBC and other legacy media outlets will have panels on just to talk about that person.
00:08:28.040Well, are they going to get kicked out of caucus by pure poly of, oh, they said something pro-life.
00:08:57.760And so the one thing I do want to see if I can pull up here is the, can I find the Randy Donut video right now?
00:09:08.300I didn't prepare this ahead of time, but it's really funny.
00:09:11.940Yes, we have to, I can't play this because of the copyright music, which you might have heard right there for a second.
00:09:21.740But we need to, we need to end Randy's career right here as a cabinet minister with this hilarious video of him eating a donut because he was trying to get back at like MP Rude or whatever for pointing out that the paper lids that Tim Hortons was giving people were awful.
00:09:37.820And so he made this like crazy video where he has like pop music playing while he like sensually eats a donut and sips coffee, which was like really ironic.
00:09:46.920And also notice that he's wearing an indigenous bead necklace right there as well.
00:09:51.620You know, not trying to imply that he might be an indigenous gentleman.
00:09:58.840And might I point out that even in this video, when he was trying to mock conservative MP for taking issue with paper lids that Tim Hortons was giving out in certain parts of the country that he himself could not get, he was not using a paper lid, despite how fantastic they supposedly are.
00:10:13.860Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:18.680It's good that the ballot of Randy Boissoneau is basically over at this point.
00:10:24.000He was a funny person to talk about for a while, but we have other funny liberal MPs to talk about.
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00:11:27.360Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Have a good one.