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00:08:30.440I could have used the brand new product here on the website that I could have used on Monday.
00:08:36.120I went to the gym on Sunday, and I did something.
00:08:38.600I don't know what it was, but it was like, oh, and so for three days after that, I had
00:08:45.620trouble walking and holding a glass of water, and I could have used the brand new Recover
00:12:06.500political and financial support for their campaigns. So it's very much a real problem.
00:12:13.140Now, can I ask you, I'm sorry to interrupt you, because I know that there's, we've got all kinds
00:12:17.920of stuff to cover tonight and we'll get to all of it. I want to get to all of it, but how would,
00:12:22.920because you've got this intelligence background steeped in knowledge, goes back years,
00:12:26.680lots of experience. How would a Chinese official or an Indian official or a Pakistani official
00:12:34.440approach an MP? Would they approach a sitting MP or would they approach somebody who may be elected
00:12:40.640as an MP from a preferred party? How would that work? Have you observed that in the past?
00:12:46.020Yeah, so there's a guy out there called Sam Cooper who's written a book called Willful
00:12:50.420Blindness. And if you're only going to read one book about this problem, that's probably the one
00:12:54.900to read. It's interesting. They don't just sort of walk up to an MP and say, hi, Mr. MP, here's
00:12:59.600some money. Can we talk to you? What actually happens? What happened in Canada is the money
00:13:03.980started coming into British Columbia through casinos, that sort of thing. Money started coming
00:13:09.620into Canada through some very dodgy real estate deals. And gradually that money started to work
00:13:14.840its way around through BC casinos, through the police forces, and then it starts to bleed into
00:13:20.400political circles. So it's a process where you start moving money into the country, you start
00:13:25.540spreading that money around, you start showing your largesse, then you start throwing parties,
00:13:30.720you invite people to parties. And the next thing you know, you start cooperating with some of the
00:13:35.820people. And the next thing you know, China is providing you with support. In other words,
00:13:41.600communist Chinese people who are working in Canada will help you with your political campaign.
00:13:47.080They'll say, oh, we'll organize a campaign meeting for you at the local Chinese restaurant. We'll
00:13:52.240invite a bunch of local people. And of course, what they're doing is they bring people in,
00:13:57.040they donate a few hundred bucks to your party. And the next thing you know, you're in bed with
00:14:01.300these people. So it's a process. Trudeau, for instance, is a sort of a classic. Wait, wait,
00:14:06.600wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You know what? I want to stop you there and I want to get back
00:14:09.440to Trudeau because that's definitely what people want to hear. But there is a period of time as
00:14:16.000this kind of assimilation is going on for the MP, him or herself, right? I mean, they attend the
00:14:20.900party, they go to a casino, they meet the Chinese official, they shake hands. Maybe they see them
00:14:25.320again at some fundraiser, some dinner or something like that. But they must know. And this is what
00:14:30.660the ends of the cop report said. They must know that they knowingly aiding a hostile foreign
00:14:36.000government. So they must know at some point during this process when they're being, you know, what
00:14:40.860would you call it? Are they being assimilated into this other countries or like, I don't even
00:14:47.080know what you'd call that. But yeah, some people would use the word assimilated. Some people would
00:14:52.660use the word seduced sometimes uh in the physical sense sometimes more in the intellectual sense
00:14:57.840um yeah so like i mean the mps would have time to think wait a minute wait a minute hold on here i
00:15:04.240am doing something horribly horribly wrong i've got to stop this immediately and hope that nobody0.94
00:15:09.520finds out let's assume we take the dumbest member of parliament we've got which is probably a bit0.97
00:15:14.380of a competition but nonetheless just say there's the dumbest member of parliament they would have0.99
00:15:18.340to know something is wrong because first off they get briefings on this sort of stuff second off it0.82
00:15:22.640made the news about 10 years ago when Richard Fadden, who at the time was head of CSIS,
00:15:27.660made a public statement. He said that the politicians in Canada were, I forget the exact
00:15:34.220words he used, but were essentially under the control of China. And he referred specifically
00:15:38.580to municipal and provincial politicians. And everybody could read between the line,
00:15:44.060we knew it was British Columbia. It's not exactly a secret. So, I mean, it's been out in the public
00:15:49.240realm for 10 years that this is going on. And there has been a whole series of stories over
00:15:54.160the last several years about, you know, this meeting, this money, huge numbers of Chinese
00:15:59.740people in Vancouver donating money to Justin Trudeau's home writing in Montreal. Like,
00:16:04.200why do they care? Why would they bother? But I mean, the answer is, you know, they're looking
00:16:08.460for influence. And this is how it happens. And again, as I just mentioned in passing,
00:16:13.220this goes back to Kretzian. This kind of stuff was going on when Kretzian was prime minister.
00:16:17.120that's where it seems to really start. Are they looking for certain types of information,
00:16:24.280or are they trying to get these representatives to do their bidding, or is it kind of both?
00:16:30.500It's probably both at the end of the day. So different countries have different interests
00:16:35.100in Canada, and it's not unusual for a country to seek influence in another country. That's why we
00:16:41.440have diplomats. That's why we have diplomatic missions. So seeking influence overtly through
00:16:48.480diplomacy and that kind of stuff is a perfectly normal activity. But in the case of China,
00:16:54.180their interest is malicious and they're looking for political control, political influence.0.60
00:16:59.180They're looking for access to resources. They're looking for entry level positions and situations
00:17:06.600where they can then access the United States of America through, shall we say, Canadian doors,
00:17:10.820if you will. But the intent is essentially to colonize Canada in the long run, steal our
00:17:18.540technology, gain access to our food resources, gain access to energy resources, get training from us
00:17:25.040and this sort of stuff. Trudeau actually allowed Chinese troops in Canada to do winter training.
00:17:30.880They took them up into the Arctic and this sort of stuff. It's just blatant. So China's interest
00:17:36.880is malicious, and one could almost call it colonial, which is kind of funny in a certain0.93
00:17:40.880sort of way. And then you've got, just by example, Iran has a different interest in Canada.0.61
00:17:46.980They're pouring, nobody's quite sure, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars into Canada,
00:17:51.460lots of people pouring into Canada from Iran, but they are looking at malicious influence because0.67
00:17:56.560they want access to the United States. They want to build a power base here so they can then move0.96
00:18:01.700into the United States through there. And then just, there's a bunch of other examples. One
00:18:05.960other country, as we mentioned earlier, is India. India is developing an interest in Canada,
00:18:10.780and this one's really weird in the sense that India's interest in Canada is that Canada is a0.60
00:18:17.900base for terrorist operations, for terrorist training, for terrorist fundraising, and that
00:18:22.800money, terrorism training and operational experience, then gets shipped to India where
00:18:27.500terrorist attacks occur. The government of India has complained about this for years. They've been
00:18:32.540on about it since 1985 or whatever it is with the Air India disaster. And Trudeau in particular has
00:18:38.580refused to do anything about it. He won't take any action against these guys. And when he's pushed,
00:18:44.720he actually says, well, you know, you have to remember Canada has free speech. You know,
00:18:48.140these people are allowed to talk while they're here. And it's like, yeah, but sending money to
00:18:52.400a listed terrorist group is against the law. Doing weapons training in Mission BC is against the law.
00:18:58.640So lots of countries are developing a foreign interest in Canada, and yeah, it's a problem. It's pretty bad.
00:19:06.100Has it gotten worse, or has it always been this bad, and we're just noticing now because of everything else that's going on?
00:19:12.840Well, I mean, again, it goes on all the time.
00:19:15.320I mean, what we call a diplomatic system, where you have an ambassador and a military attache and that sort of stuff,
00:19:22.660that goes back to the Italian city-states, Venetian diplomacy and all that kind of stuff.
00:19:26.840So the idea of trying to gain influence in the other person's state is an ongoing thing that's been going on as long as there's been organized states, basically.
00:19:36.060What's different now is the degree to which it's occurring and the corruption that's involved in it.
00:19:43.220So it's not like the Chinese ambassador goes to a public meeting and advocates on behalf of China, which is perfectly fine.
00:19:51.760You can agree or disagree with the guy, but it's legitimate for that person to do that sort of stuff.
00:19:55.640What's not so legitimate is when China moves Mexican cartel money into Canada, washes it through the casino system, washes it through the real estate system, and then uses that money to finance Canadian campaigns of Canadian politicians.
00:40:31.080and it's a cult is what it really is, because you must accept all the precepts of the cult.
00:40:36.400You can't question the leader. And if you question the least little bit of the theory,
00:40:41.120then you're a heretic who needs to be destroyed. So we kind of had Pride Day, and now it's Pride0.99
00:40:46.020Month. And now they're talking about Pride Season. And now we've got Gender Day, Pride Day,
00:40:52.400Transgender Day, and everything else. So when you look at the moral compass of the country,
00:40:57.120it's been replaced the judo judeo-christian values and the charter of rights have been replaced by
00:41:04.300this sort of national obsession with dei esg pride etc etc etc well i i would suggest that
00:41:12.680they are trying very hard to replace it but there's some of us that still stand up and resist
00:41:17.520and so this is interesting i'm building a chart on a piece of paper in front of me about everything
00:41:21.600we talk about tonight we've talked about china and the world economic forum essentially being
00:41:26.300partners in this. DEI, where do you think this comes from? We know it comes a lot of it anyway
00:41:33.000from the World Economic Forum, but where else? Is it being perpetuated by them, or are there
00:41:39.800other billionaire funders of this? Is it Larry Fink with BlackRock? I mean, where is this coming
00:41:46.620from exactly? If you want to trace the sort of ideology itself, go back, it's essentially the
00:41:54.260Frankfurt School, which started, strangely enough, in Frankfurt, Germany. And it's a sort of 1930s
00:42:02.180kind of movement, which then kind of disappeared with the Nazis in Germany and all that kind of
00:42:05.900stuff. But the Frankfurt School basically takes Marxism, repackages it, dresses it up in more
00:42:13.540acceptable terms, and then pushes that out. It's sort of Marxism-lite, if you will. And this was
00:42:20.580exported to North America. It got grounded in the University of Chicago as a big center for all0.86
00:42:25.620this. York University, when I did my master's degree there in 1989, was already pushing the
00:42:30.640gender thing. I didn't realize just how insidious it was at the time, but I remember being there in0.99
00:42:35.54089 and 90, and they were talking about the difference between gender and sex, and sex
00:42:39.100was biological, but gender was a choice, and all that kind of stuff. So the ideology itself is
00:42:45.060post-Marxism, Marxism, or Marxism-lite, or it's now progressivism, if you want to call it that.
00:42:52.640That's where that comes from. Now, as to who is pushing it, we have always had in our societies,
00:42:59.720as far back as anybody can figure, we've had a series of individuals who think they are more
00:43:05.140better than everybody else. Pardon the use of the grammar there. So you always have a group of
00:43:12.460elites who think that they're better connected to God, or they're better educated, or they're
00:43:17.960just smarter than you, or they're more entitled than you. And they feel they have the right
00:43:22.780to determine how society should be driven. And if you look at the struggle for democracy over
00:43:28.540several hundred years, or a couple of thousand years, it's always this sort of trying to find
00:43:33.480a balance between the elites and the masses so that everybody gets something. And it doesn't
00:43:39.280just wind up with the elites getting everything in the peasantry out sort of rolling around in the
00:43:42.800mud so right now uh you can't call yourself a fascist anymore because that kind of went out of
00:43:48.360style with world war ii you can't call yourself a communist anymore uh because that went out of
00:43:54.200style with the collapse of the soviet union whatever so now you have these people calling
00:43:58.120themselves progressives or they call themselves globalists but we're liberals even they call
00:44:03.820themselves they've taken that term classical liberalism which is like anybody i'm open to
00:44:09.840anything and they've taken and that over that expression call themselves liberals they're not
00:44:14.220this is something i actually ask my people every single night i say we don't we don't say
00:44:19.360mainstream media we call them marxist corporate media we don't we don't say liberal we say they
00:44:24.900are marxists you call them what they are because we can't we can't use their language because that's0.97
00:44:30.540just perpetuating all that crap anyway, right? Yeah. I mean, classic liberals used to lead the1.00
00:44:35.600charge for free speech. It always used to be classic liberals who were the pro-free speech
00:44:40.120and some of the conservative folks who are more willing to put limits or boundaries around speech.
00:44:44.360And we've now seen this inversion where it's conservatives who are pushing women's rights
00:44:48.740and it is so-called conservatives that are pushing free speech. Well, we've got Trudeau who would
00:44:53.320call himself a capital L liberal, i.e. liberal party, and he would call himself a progressive,
00:44:58.440But yet they're writing this Bill C, which I can't remember the number, C-63, C-68 or whatever it is, the Online Harms Act, which wants to lock you up in your house for having ill thoughts on the internet.
00:45:14.140I mean, it is the most Orwellian policy you can possibly imagine, and we now have liberal MPs and NDP, and it's not just those two, it's everybody, who will actually gaslight you and tell you that what you just saw happen didn't happen.
00:45:33.660So there's Trudeau going, you know, well, no one was forced into getting a vaccine.
00:46:04.140So during the pandemic, we saw Prime Minister Arden or Arden or whatever the heck her name is from New Zealand when she said, you know, government is the sole source of truth.
00:46:15.240And she said it with a straight face and I just about died.
00:46:18.300I mean, anybody that's ever read a history book or a political science book or an economics book realizes that government has a rather long, dodgy history of lying through its teeth perpetually.
00:46:31.020we have democracy because we distrust government um but yet we now have people like uh who is it
00:46:37.760mark holland who just said well oh you know that thing about you know your summer vacation traveling
00:46:42.700in the car i was completely misquoted it was taken out of context and it's like no it's on video
00:46:47.560yeah it's crazy you know um but yet he sits there with a straight face and says that didn't happen
00:46:56.020you you misunderstood it but i mean that's where we're at where we have a government that is
00:47:00.620willing to sit there and look at you and say you know it doesn't snow in ottawa in february uh and
00:47:05.700then you have to accept that because that is their version of the truth let me ask you these people
00:47:11.200uh tom they they have to know that what they're saying is complete fallacy they have to know
00:47:19.440okay and yet they they say it with a straight face and it to me it's like how on earth do they sleep
00:47:25.800at night. So here's a question for you. And you're asking the question is, do these people
00:47:32.740actually believe what they're saying? And having been in Ottawa now for 30 some odd years, having
00:47:39.780worked for PCO, RCMP, CIC, who else have I worked for? The Bank of Canada, Department of National
00:47:46.980Defense. I've done contract work for CVSA. I did work for shared services. I mean,
00:47:53.320there's this thing called the Ottawa bubble so here's parliament and there's the parliament
00:47:58.920buildings 10 kilometers this way 10 kilometers that way that's the Ottawa bubble that's where
00:48:05.020they live they live in an alternative form of reality called Ottawa and I've asked myself
00:48:11.820times when I've testified to the senate and I've testified to parliament I look at these people and1.00
00:48:16.340I go dear god did you actually just answer that did you just ask that question are you that stupid1.00
00:48:21.020Are you that removed from reality that you're asking questions that, you know, some kid in grade four would be embarrassed?1.00
00:48:27.500Without going into too many details, myself and another intelligence officer actually attended a cabinet meeting with the chief of defense staff.0.95
00:48:34.480We walked in there terrified, like, what are a couple of dumbass captains doing with the chief of defense staff in a cabinet meeting?0.82
00:48:41.740We walked out of there afterwards and thought, oh, my God, these are the people running the country.0.99
00:55:21.600So when you become prime minister or a cabinet minister, there's a whole series of briefing books, intelligence briefings, whatever, that go to these folks.
00:55:27.800But for members of parliament, I don't think there's a lot of education.
00:55:31.380I think it's probably that way on purpose.
00:55:33.200The prime minister wants to keep all of the power to himself.
00:55:36.200And so he keeps every minister and all of the backbenchers in the dark.
00:55:39.780let me let me ask you this this is something because we're putting this puzzle together here
00:55:45.540with the dei and we haven't brought up climate change yet but i'm going to throw that into the
00:55:49.940same category as the trans thing um they're trying to get us with that we've got uh china and we've
00:55:57.140got the world economic forum working together but you wrote this book that came out a few years ago
00:56:03.780tom it's political islam to canada with a warning to america you're talking about the islamist
00:56:10.960ideology coming over here in droves and what have we seen in the last six months ever since october0.51
00:56:18.4807th ever since that hamas attack on israel we have been seeing all of these encampments show up at0.97
00:56:25.300pretty much every major university across the country now most of those people are islamist0.98
00:56:31.400Most of those people are Muslim, and they are chanting death to the Jews.1.00
00:56:39.620They're coming over here in droves.0.98
00:56:41.480I saw a report the other day that said, we honestly don't know how many illegals there are in Canada.
00:56:47.480It could be anywhere between 20,000 and 500,000.
00:56:54.220We don't know where they're coming from, even though I think they do.0.98
00:56:56.880They're coming up from South America through the Darien Gap, all the way through Central America, through Mexico, and then finally the United States and Canada.
00:57:04.540But there's that many of these folks in our country.0.84
00:57:08.560Is this the Great Replacement Theory happening right now?
00:57:12.660So when you ask a question about the number of illegals in the country, back in 2018, not too long after Trudeau had become prime minister,
00:57:21.520a couple of liberal MPs were actually discussing this issue.
00:57:26.020And one of them, I think, inadvertently kind of put on the public record that they didn't know how many people were in Canada overall.
00:57:35.020In other words, they have a rough idea of like the census says there's, you know, like 32 million people or whatever it was at the time, 35 million or something.
00:57:41.840But they openly suggested there could be between 800,000 to a million people in Canada that they didn't know were here.
00:57:48.780So they know there's large numbers of illegals in Canada.
00:57:51.340They know they're sort of concentrated in the GTAH area and they're concentrated, you know, Calgary, Edmonton kind of a thing, Montreal to a certain degree.
00:57:59.420But back in 2018, the number was probably somewhere below a million people, somewhere around there.
00:58:05.760The number of people who are living in Canada who the government doesn't have sort of a file on, if you will.
00:58:12.980So I would suggest to you that that number is much larger now.
00:58:16.920under Prime Minister Trudeau, the population of Canada is increased by over five million
00:58:21.520officially that we know about. And that doesn't include a whole lot more illegals that have just
00:58:26.720kind of wandered across the border. We don't know how many people come into Canada, say,
00:58:31.460on a student visa, which is what large numbers of them do. So a whole lot of people that enter
00:58:36.120Canada do so quasi-legally in that they apply for a student visa, you know, from the Brampton
00:58:42.320College of Finance or something, which of course doesn't really exist. But they get off the
00:58:46.800plane in Pearson. They hold out their visa and say, I'm a student. Here's my visa. They go,
00:58:50.540yeah, thanks a lot. Come on in. And then that's it. There's no follow-up. No one checks two years
00:58:55.640later, a year later, whatever, to see if they ever went to school. No one checks to see if they
00:58:59.800leave the country. So we have large numbers of people who we know entered the country on student
00:59:04.140visas, but they have no idea what happens to them after that. So the short answer to your question
00:59:09.240is there is a whole bunch of people in Canada they're not aware of on top of the five or six
00:59:16.680million people Trudeau has brought into the country quasi-legally. So when people talk about
00:59:23.420the Great Replacement Theory, I look at it and say, don't put a conspiracy theory title on something
00:59:29.360which has got a much clearer explanation. So what's the thing from the war room? There are
00:59:36.300no conspiracy theories, but there's no coincidences either. So if you ask people, and this is going
00:59:43.620to be part of my presentation and Red Deer as well. Like, what is Trudeau up to? Like, he's
00:59:47.240failing massively. And I would say, well, no, he's succeeding in the sense of doing what he wants to
00:59:53.320do. He wants an open borders Canada. He wants national institutions removed. He wants a
00:59:57.980post-nationalist Canada as part of a globalist organization. And more importantly, Biden is
01:00:05.100flooding America with God knows how many people. It's millions. Trudeau is flooding Canada with
01:00:09.420millions. The United Kingdom, despite the conservative government saying they're going to
01:00:13.400stop migration on, I don't know, 15 different occasions, isn't. So what's happening? Well,
01:00:18.800the answer is, if you want to be a one-party dictator, if you want a one-party state,
01:00:25.160which is a quote-unquote democracy, but only one party really has any power or influence,
01:00:30.000then what you need is a compliant lower class, which is dependent on government for handouts.
01:00:36.680So the greatest resistance to corrupt government is a functioning media and a functioning middle class.
01:00:44.800If you have a middle class and a media, it's very hard for the government to establish greater or stronger control.
01:00:51.900But if you have no functioning media and if you break the will of the middle class and make them dependent on their $10 daycare and their free dental and the welfare, student loans, and then if you drive them into debt so they can't afford to do anything, you then have a compliant mass of people.0.82
01:01:11.160So democracy was based on the idea basically of capitalism plus freedom of thought, plus freedom of religion, plus freedom of science, kind of all rolled together into an accountable system where you could walk up to the parliament, bang on the door and say, hey, what are you clowns doing in there?
01:01:26.900We want to know what you're doing and we're going to come after you.0.99
01:01:30.640And by the way, every three or four years, we're going to fire your dumb butts out of there and put in some other guys.0.99
01:01:34.540um now the elites if if trudeau calls himself an elite which he does the way he views himself0.99
01:01:40.620is they don't want accountability they want power so if you break the will of the middle class
01:01:47.120steal their wealth through high rents through high mortgages through high interest rates through
01:01:52.320massive debt through student loan debt or whatever you then generate a compliant voting class now a
01:01:59.860lot of people are just assuming uh trudeau's going to lose the next election everybody's
01:02:04.100already anointed Pierre there. And they've already said, you know, Trudeau's not going to last the
01:02:08.980summer. And it's like, well, I hope he's gone. I would like to think he's gone. I would think a
01:02:15.380good looking golden retriever would make a good replacement for him. But let's go back and
01:02:23.240remember, how did he get elected last time? And the answer is, we've got 100% of people in Canada
01:02:29.700who can vote. That's the people on the voters list. Of that, probably, what did happen last
01:02:37.960time? We had got like a 60 something percent turnout. So 40 percent of people voted to vote.
01:02:43.440But a bunch of people did vote liberal. Now, how many people voted for the Liberal Party? The
01:02:48.320answer is about 21 and a half percent of all registered voters voted liberal. And that was
01:02:55.500enough to put Trudeau into a minority premiership, which he now has this unholy alliance with Jagmeet
01:03:01.820Singh, which is not a coalition, or so we're told. It's a coalition. But yeah, with 21% of all
01:03:09.440registered voters voting for him. So I hear people cheering on saying, oh, look, the liberals are
01:03:14.520running at 28% in the polls. And I go, yeah, they won at 22%. So what the liberals need for the next
01:03:21.400election. And I think this is where Trudeau seems to genuinely believe he can pull this out. And
01:03:26.680I hope he doesn't, but if I was in Vegas, I wouldn't bet against him. I believe between now
01:03:33.360and the next election, we're going to get universal basic income for the 18 to 30 crowd. He's going to
01:03:37.800cancel all the student loans. There's going to be more carbon tax rebate. There's going to be
01:03:44.380another GST rebate on groceries and all that kind of stuff. In other words, free stuff for everybody.
01:03:51.400And what he needs is 22, 23, 24% of the vote in Canada, and he needs it to break in a certain way.
01:03:58.640Conservative voting is very inefficient in Canada, where liberal voting is very efficient in Canada.
01:04:04.080And for people that don't know what I mean by that, so when the conservatives winning a, when they win a riding in Alberta, they get like 90% of the votes go conservative.
01:04:12.840And they win by an absolute landslide.
01:04:14.860Whereas when a Liberal wins a seat in Hamilton or something, they only get 35% of the vote in a three-way split, but it's enough to get the seat.
01:05:14.120so yeah yeah i we've got a lot of work to do this uh this conference this big event coming up in red
01:05:22.040deer one week from this saturday put on by veterans for freedom and canadians for truth
01:05:26.360at legacy place by the way 75 dollars per ticket you can go to canadiansfortruth.ca put in the uh
01:05:33.160the code v4f and you get uh your ticket for 75 dollars uh this is going to be a solution-based
01:05:40.600gathering correct you guys are going to obviously uh you know tell us how we got here why we got here
01:05:46.440in certain different ways but ultimately at the end of each presentation it's going to be solution
01:05:52.040based from what i'm understanding yeah i think so why veterans in the first question i mean
01:05:56.840people ask well what were veterans even doing at the convoy and then you know why are veterans
01:06:01.000speaking out now and the answer is i mean people like me uh i did my uh service on the ground in
01:06:07.320in the former Yugoslavia, where people were shooting at each other with large guns for a
01:06:11.760while because they didn't like each other's politics. We have had people who served in the
01:06:16.640Golan, the Sinai, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Mali, every crap hole in the planet. We've0.94
01:06:24.780had people there over the years. And one of the things about the veteran community is we sort of
01:06:29.240laugh amongst ourselves and say, we divide the world into two places, over here and over there.
01:06:34.420So over here is Canada. And that is where we sort of live, train. That's where we have our bases, whatever. And over there is where we wind up when the government sends us off to, you know, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Central America, the Golan Heights, Afghanistan, you name it. We've been pretty much everywhere around the world at one time or another.
01:06:57.100And one of the things we recognize as veterans is we recognize stupid when we see stupid.0.99
01:07:02.200And by that, I mean, the former Yugoslavia actually was a pretty nice country until they,1.00
01:07:06.900you know, burned half of it down with heavy artillery.0.89
01:07:09.280But what destroyed that country was the politics of identity.
01:07:13.820The Croatian thing, the Serbian thing, the Muslim thing, the Slovenian thing, the Macedonian0.72
01:07:18.300thing, that vicious politics of identity had been suppressed for years.0.77
01:12:04.520They basically fired her into purgatory
01:12:07.080and now they've had this kangaroo trial going on for months, but it's not just that they're
01:12:12.180persecuting her. What's at stake here is that an individual police officer in Canada, whether it's
01:12:18.140the lowest constable on the smallest police force or the commissioner of the RCMP, is allowed to
01:12:24.220investigate a crime. They can initiate investigation if they see something going on. If they see some
01:12:28.420guy running with a knife into a back alley, they're allowed to go, hey, something's going on
01:12:32.580there. I better go take a look. They have the authority to do that. But what we're seeing now
01:12:37.480is the Ottawa police, especially under Deputy Chief Steve Tinkerbell there, is it's now
01:12:43.980they're kind of saying, well, the government doesn't want that investigated, so we're not
01:12:47.620going to do it. In other words, it's the will of the government that determines whether they carry
01:12:52.560out investigations or not. And it's like, no, it's the will of the police force and the rule of law
01:12:58.860that determines whether investigations go ahead or not. So again, one more step in the sort of
01:13:04.900crushing of Canadian institutions is the police used to enjoy relative independence to start or
01:13:10.960to not start criminal investigations. But now somebody started an investigation that Trudeau
01:13:16.000didn't like, and that person is being driven into the ground. You see, Tom, I'm sorry to interrupt
01:13:21.140you. Do you see military, you know, this is probably a dumb question because after everything0.88
01:13:27.880we've seen for the past four or five years of course they will but do you see canadian military
01:13:33.680canadian police going along with this just because it's what they've been told to do or do you see
01:13:39.760more of them stepping up they are so yeah you've actually saw i mean the convoy was interesting in
01:13:45.120a sense it was it was a microcosm of everything that's right and wrong with the country and what
01:13:50.100we actually observed with the convoy is we had great relations with the police most of the time
01:13:54.700And by the police, I mean, constable, corporal, sergeant kind of cops, like the cops are actually out on the street. We had no problems with them 95% of the time. And we had reasonably good relations with some of the more senior sort of inspectors and superintendents.
01:14:12.480But you could see the divide in the police force between a lot of the senior ranks who've been bureaucratized, and they just blindly sort of follow whatever the government says. And you can see the frontline police officers who say, our job is to keep the peace, not to enforce the will of the government.
01:14:28.560And there was huge conflicts within police forces, some of which is still playing out.