True Patriot Love - Canada Needs a War Room Before It’s Too Late

00:00:00.000 We've all seen them. Dark rooms, glowing screens, maps covered in movement, voices low, urgent,

00:00:06.720 decisions made in seconds. Hollywood calls them war rooms. But in a modern democracy,

00:00:11.960 what are they really? A real war room isn't about theatrics. It isn't about generals staring at

00:00:16.780 maps. It's something far more powerful and far more dangerous if misunderstood. A true war room

00:00:23.240 is a compression engine for reality. It exists to collapse time. In normal government operations,

00:00:28.840 information moves slow, layer by layer, department by department, days turn into weeks, weeks into

00:00:34.240 months, and by the time action happens, the moment has already passed. A war room eliminates that

00:00:40.440 delay. It pulls data, decision makers, and authority into a single space, physical or digital, where

00:00:46.740 insight becomes action in real time. No lag, no bureaucracy, no diffusion of responsibility,

00:00:52.800 just signal and response. In a crisis, economic, political, environmental, that speed is an

00:00:58.820 luxury, it's the difference between control and chaos. So the real question isn't what is a war

00:01:04.600 room, it's this, who controls Canada's war or situation rooms and what's going on in them?

00:01:14.160 All right, and to talk more about this, a guy who's always informed on things,

00:01:19.140 militarily speaking, not only does he have a historical background in that with his

00:01:23.880 family involvement, but also well-read on the topic. Jim Lang, radio broadcast and television

00:01:30.020 broadcast icon, and now podcast leader in Canada. Thanks for joining me. Pleasure, Mike. Pleasure.

00:01:35.120 I'm very excited about this topic because it extends to sports and entertainment and business

00:01:41.140 beyond what the original thought process of it was. And it really started in the dark days of

00:01:47.340 World War II for England in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. And it was Winston Churchill and what

00:01:53.600 he called his war cabinet coming up and they created the war room war cabinet with top generals

00:01:59.180 and squadron leaders and war planners what are they going to do america wasn't in the war they

00:02:05.740 were a few against many and they didn't know how they were going to survive the summer and fall of

00:02:12.460 1940 with at that time adolf hitler in germany had conquered france and they were they could see

00:02:20.140 the white cliffs of dover and they thought if they don't win the germans are going to cross

00:02:25.200 english channel and take them over and it was all about planning every day what are we going to do

00:02:29.940 how are we going to do it what's our next step and being meticulous about it and being a leader and

00:02:35.440 being checking your ego at the door and if there was a junior officer or someone who had an idea

00:02:40.620 that was good listening to it and trying to incorporate it in the big plan so essentially

00:02:45.600 this came from this was born as many things are that are used for a long time born out of

00:02:52.640 necessity yes of organizing organizing experts in each field what are what assets do we have

00:02:59.220 where are the assets that we have uh who is going to handle the coordination of these assets

00:03:04.500 logistics i guess at that time you know munitions creation of munitions uh air air traffic air force

00:03:12.220 creation and Mike it was having someone with enough intestinal fortitude and courage to put

00:03:19.420 their hand up and say I disagree with Winston Churchill or a three-star general or whomever it

00:03:26.220 is and say I don't think that will work and this is why and that's the beauty of the of a war room

00:03:32.640 concept in business and sports and in the military and in the world is hey look I think this is going

00:03:40.220 to not work out and these are the reasons why why don't we try this uh you know winston churchill

00:03:46.040 one of the things that uh struck me is he had his own way of organizing how he did yeah very much

00:03:51.360 spent a lot of time in bed yeah you know that dictating to his secretary yeah and he would

00:03:55.840 have a uh he would have a cabinet uh beside the bed with all of the mail that he had to do and

00:04:00.760 every drawer had a but you know he had his own way of doing it and i think that had a lot to do with

00:04:05.860 the drink. But having said that, what was born of that is what we as in a modern society view as

00:04:14.240 a war room, a situation room, one room where everybody is working together on an equal playing

00:04:20.620 field to find solutions. And from there, the evolution was post-World War II. The allies had

00:04:28.220 won and they had a war room, the creation of the United Nations and NATO. And how are they going

00:04:34.580 split up the world now that they had conquered germany and japan and how are things going to

00:04:39.540 how are they going to rebuild and how are they going to feed people all of a sudden you've got

00:04:43.860 millions of displaced people with no food and nowhere to live so interesting already in a

00:04:48.900 peace time we're still calling it a war room yeah a war room because we're at war with the situation

00:04:54.100 hunger and and the serious health issues and hygiene and how if we don't have proper sanitation

00:05:01.540 and clean water and a roof on their head and it was something to feed them there's going to be

00:05:07.060 mass starvation mass death and they just had well so they had the idea look what do we need to do

00:05:13.620 and how can we do it and having like a big wall because this was the analog world where basically

00:05:18.980 you had a big chalkboard or whiteboard and someone with good penmanship writing out ideas and planning

00:05:24.340 it out and having a flow chart and all of a sudden people who were an officer in the navy or the

00:05:30.900 the military, the army got into the business world and said, well, you know what? If I took

00:05:35.300 that same philosophy and applied it to business and law and manufacturing, could it work? And it

00:05:40.980 did work. If you think about the big three automakers in the fifties and sixties and

00:05:45.700 how Germany and Japan rebuilt their countries, they took some of those same, same methodology,

00:05:51.520 same ideas, same concepts, and applied it to building homes and building highways and building

00:05:58.080 vehicles and manufacturing and running a country we also view uh i guess the classic war room is

00:06:04.460 the uh what's known as the situation room at the white house yes i would imagine every country has

00:06:10.380 their version of the situation room um the one i believe putin's has sharks with lasers swimming

00:06:17.500 around it right yeah uh and he has got a motor but having said that that's sort of really what

00:06:25.260 it is is real-time global crisis management yeah with all of the specialists in the room

00:06:32.040 advising that moment they have to and it's a true story so in the 1960s stanley kubrick made the

00:06:38.140 incredible movie dr strangelove yeah and in it there's a war room and there's a famous line

00:06:44.060 you can't fight in here this is the war room that's right i recall that so ronald reagan is

00:06:49.260 elected president of the united states and the white house staff and the secret service are

00:06:54.340 taking him through the white house for the first time he's looking around he said gentlemen where's

00:06:59.900 the war room that's funny and he said the culprit word for word and they said mr president we don't

00:07:06.360 have a war room that's only in the movie we have a situation room so he for years a lot because they

00:07:11.880 this is pre-internet he was also an actor he probably acted where he was in the world several

00:07:17.160 times yeah so but in in a situation room as they have in the white house and and in the pentagon

00:07:23.200 you would have the heads of the different military branches the head of intelligence services the head

00:07:29.860 of everyone else that they would need and this is where this is why a world leader looks so aged

00:07:36.280 after they've been in office because unfortunately mike you're being woken up at 2 30 in the morning

00:07:41.280 from a dead sleep and dragged down to the situation room and so look we got a problem in the persian

00:07:46.460 golf and strata hormuz and we need because you're the commander in chief and we need an answer now

00:07:51.340 right so they're sitting there staring into the war room like what the situation room right in the

00:07:55.900 white house and they're being fed all this information and they have to come up with a

00:08:00.020 decision right there so the quality of the information and how it's you know given to

00:08:05.620 the president at the time how it's explained to them in the simplest terms possible so they can

00:08:10.220 make an informed decision is crucial because it makes a change it can change the world in a in a

00:08:15.180 heartbeat looks what the price of oil is doing and that's a perfect example i mean if i ever become

00:08:20.540 the president of any country and i have to go into a war room or a situation room in the middle

00:08:25.260 of the night make sure there's an espresso sitting there and give me 10 minutes so the great thing

00:08:30.940 about it is some of the best minds in the national football league at one time served in world war ii

00:08:37.500 among them was tom landry the long-time coach of the dallas cowboys who was a b-17 pilot world war

00:08:44.060 too so he had been in war room situations as a pilot planning out missions and they decided the

00:08:50.400 Dallas Cowboys in the 60s to take that same concept with TechSram and everybody involved

00:08:57.360 with the organization to plan out the draft plan out the season plan out the organization and

00:09:02.640 created this massively successful team in the 60s and 70s winning Super Bowls filling stadiums the

00:09:09.780 dallas cowboy cheerleaders so and then extended the whole war room concept into the boardrooms

00:09:14.880 of bay street and wall street and fleet street in england into sports hey do i draft mike wickson

00:09:22.620 is he the good guy and having a flow chart of information and even to entertainment to this

00:09:27.580 day martin scorsese has a quote-unquote war room with all his principal photographers and

00:09:33.560 cinematographers so he knows where everybody is every day yeah hey leonardo dicaprio is going to

00:09:40.120 be here this day and we're going to do that that day and they map it out to the second unit two

00:09:44.320 is over here yeah this yeah no he's uh it's so it's interesting how uh and you bring it up in

00:09:50.060 sports that that becomes the org chart because in a situation room for war or national security

00:09:56.700 international planning those war rooms are full of people representing another large generally

00:10:03.480 speaking a large thinking group of people that are being referred to constantly some of those

00:10:09.240 may be in the room but behind that expert in at the table generally speaking at that level

00:10:14.920 there's an org chart that falls out of that thing from the highest level to the bottom bottom level

00:10:20.600 and then what really a war room as we pointed out in the beginning a war room gives you the

00:10:26.280 opportunity to shrink time to condense time how much time information takes to get to the top

00:10:32.260 of that decision making chart and i could be a scout and you're the general manager and i'm

00:10:37.440 saying i know you don't know him but i saw this kid christoph and he goes to queen's university

00:10:43.160 at kingston i'm telling you we have to draft him and there might be a lively debate ultimately you

00:10:49.560 as a general manager would have the final say but i'm giving my two cents worth and that's the kind

00:10:54.860 of thing it's like hey we have to create this product at one time someone in a board room in

00:10:59.940 a war room at coca-cola thought we're going to create new coke right to to combat pepsi because

00:11:05.440 pepsi was growing at such an exponential rate in the early mid 80s and becoming so huge well it

00:11:11.500 was a horrible mistake look how much money in market share coca-cola lost from the debacle

00:11:16.720 that was new coke but that was because they sat down and said okay they thought it was a great

00:11:21.740 idea we have one quarter in which to regain market share for our shareholders yeah what is our plan

00:11:27.840 going to be to deliver to them and it was if you think about it that was a massive massive

00:11:33.080 undertaking they said we're going to change our brand and put everything behind it a brand that 0.92

00:11:39.320 was 100 years old and we're going for it and you know it's a credit to that war room tactic

00:11:46.080 when you have every expert in the room on the same page it's hard to deny that you have a decision

00:11:53.460 that seems worthwhile making and at that moment you even know what your answer is otherwise it

00:11:59.140 would have come up in the war room previous to that or you could say why did no one speak up

00:12:04.520 right and that you hold accountable to junior members of your war room like you you were there

00:12:10.180 you had the opportunity say something that's what we're here for and i really think this concept

00:12:15.080 right now in canadian history mike is something that could be applied to the economy of this

00:12:21.260 country to manufacturing to infrastructure to business to combat what's going on with the

00:12:28.040 middle east combat donald trump combat tariffs we have the brain power in this country we we've

00:12:33.220 seen that time and time again if we get a good representation different groups of people and

00:12:38.220 actually listen to them and consider their ideas we could come up with some great plans you know

00:12:42.920 even more to the point, we have a lot of unqualified ministers. I point to the Minister

00:12:47.780 of Immigration, several other ministers out there that seem completely unqualified to head their

00:12:53.280 position. If you knew that they were just one voice in a war room or a situation room or an

00:13:01.420 action room, whatever you want to call it in this modern era, you'd feel more confident. I think we

00:13:06.840 would get further and make better decisions and that then reports that once again part of that

00:13:13.500 org chart makes its way faster to the top before long-term decisions uh have long-term effects

00:13:20.240 mike you think about right now the federal minister of immigration diop out of halifax west

00:13:25.460 and and how she's under fire even some members of her own liberal party are kind of not happy

00:13:30.440 with her portfolio yeah does she inspire confidence when she's in their situation room

00:13:35.440 admitting that there's thousands of undocumented foreigners in this country.

00:13:40.400 They don't even know if they're part of the IRGC.

00:13:42.820 They just got rid of one, but they don't even know how many there are in the country.

00:13:45.820 So if you thought to yourself, okay, we have a situation room on immigration 0.99

00:13:49.700 because we have a problem that is terrible for new Canadians, immigrants to Canada. 0.99

00:13:55.340 And safety, crime.

00:13:57.180 It's problematic for Canadians overall, financially, safety-wise, the healthcare.

00:14:02.720 here. So now we know it is a national situation. So now do we need a situation room where we get

00:14:10.220 reports out of the situation room daily? Mark Carney was the head of the Bank of England,

00:14:16.480 the Bank of Canada, head of some of the biggest hedge funds in the world. I have to believe

00:14:20.580 that he has been privy and part of these really high level business war rooms, exchanging ideas.

00:14:27.600 do we go short the stock do we go long do we invest in oil right do we look at green energy

00:14:33.560 so i i would like to hear stories that carney because right now it appears that he's got a

00:14:38.440 real small key group of people that he listens to and really doesn't want to hear from anybody else

00:14:43.920 but you know here we are in this yes his executive cadre and that's about it that's about it but on

00:14:49.280 this wednesday that we're taping there's the disturbing story that honda canada is not going

00:14:54.220 be going through their electrical vehicle plan in ontario and that's a loss of thousands of jobs

00:14:59.180 potentially for the province and for the country okay there's another situation room we've got to

00:15:03.740 get back to work so how do we fix this we need a productivity we need a a real productivity and

00:15:11.580 economic situation room right now okay so here's a good example we found out this morning honda's

00:15:17.580 not coming in several days ago we got what is our plan of action we need experts from the the field

00:15:24.140 of economics we need people from manufacturing the auto sector tell us what replace is there

00:15:29.820 a replacement for the auto sector we need to be thinking about at a higher level all of these

00:15:34.140 things need to come in and you would hope that we have ottawa set up in a fashion that there are these

00:15:40.860 situation rooms looking out for us and if there aren't historically we found that they do create

00:15:47.020 enormous uh potential for progress and success and great ideas and there is one potential right now

00:15:53.660 the hanwa people of south korea mike have said if you buy the submarines we're building armored

00:15:59.180 vehicles and mobile artillery units in canada so if you've lost all these jobs from honda there's

00:16:05.500 a chance to replace them with high-tech sophisticated jobs and military equipment

00:16:10.700 that they said they will build there and that that to me is something you would discuss in a

00:16:16.140 political economic world yeah so tell me what what's the outcome either way on this and how

00:16:20.140 How many jobs and what's the benefit?

00:16:22.140 Extrapolate this notion of what would happen on, you know, for better or for worse.

00:16:26.080 Give me the pros and cons.

00:16:26.560 Do we have to build homes and roads?

00:16:28.060 Do we have to do stuff?

00:16:29.300 That's a great.

00:16:30.360 So you wonder.

00:16:32.240 So here's the thing.

00:16:33.580 And we'll get to a couple of other ones.

00:16:35.160 Yeah.

00:16:35.400 The truth is so many people are working from home now.

00:16:39.620 Yeah.

00:16:39.920 And what I would love to see, and I think you would love to see in many Canadians is we look into our government offices and see a war room of experts,

00:16:48.500 then leaving that room to execute decisions.

00:16:51.900 Yeah.

00:16:52.800 It seems like we could get a group email together

00:16:56.380 or have a Zoom call later on today to get to this, 0.82

00:16:59.240 but, you know, Susie can't log in

00:17:02.600 and John doesn't have the ability to send a document.

00:17:06.580 And then Jim's think it's just a cat.

00:17:08.500 Yeah.

00:17:08.880 You take the cat off the screen.

00:17:10.760 Jim, you're a cat again.

00:17:12.300 So, you know, I think that we need to maybe really consider

00:17:17.860 how we get people back into a room together yeah even if it once a month i was going to say even if

00:17:25.220 it is intermittently uh weekly every second day on some of the issues but a war room a situation room

00:17:32.840 is how we historically do handle a situation uh the other thing that it does is it brings into

00:17:39.840 focus shared assets so you get a group of people in the room and i say to you hey uh jim listen

00:17:45.920 we've got to buy, we've got to get a barbecue.

00:17:49.220 Well, I've got an extra barbecue.

00:17:51.200 Right.

00:17:51.580 You're not doing anything with that barbecue?

00:17:53.240 Put the barbecue up on the list.

00:17:54.460 Take it out of the budget.

00:17:55.520 We start to remove these hidden costs, I think,

00:18:00.120 when you have people in a room putting the picnic together.

00:18:03.860 But you raised a great point about these sort of detached silos

00:18:08.100 that people are in from the remote work.

00:18:10.820 Yeah, you're having superficial conversation,

00:18:13.140 but it's online and you're doing work,

00:18:14.560 and then okay thanks thanks i'll see you later then you go back to your job but when you're in

00:18:19.040 a room and you're there for half a day and maybe you have a coffee table and some tea

00:18:24.080 and you're chit-chatting and they're socializing and interacting they're like oh and then that i

00:18:30.800 don't know how we could not create a good creative flow of ideas and get the juices going and start

00:18:36.820 thinking oh wait a sec you said this because if you're in the room together because the one thing

00:18:42.020 that sports does well after a draft or after free agency they'll release a video of 10 to 12 people

00:18:49.120 in the team all debating and talking about do we sign them do we trade them do we draft them and

00:18:54.520 it's fascinating to hear i think so also giving that transparency yeah makes you believe more in

00:19:02.000 that team's ability but okay why can't we see but i mean they will have obviously final say

00:19:07.760 Not commissions, not commissions where we sit and have somebody defend themselves.

00:19:12.680 No, but Carney and his top advisors, sleeves rolled up, tie undone, you know, a stale cup of coffee,

00:19:20.260 hammering out problems and coming up solutions and say, hey, we did this and this is how we did it.

00:19:25.300 I think Canadians would like to peel back the layers and see how they come up with these ideas.

00:19:30.800 Let's take a look at Canada's military and how they handle a war room.

00:19:35.060 What does Canada do in the way of a military war room or situation room scenario if something was to arise?

00:19:44.160 Well, they have a couple.

00:19:45.220 They have the head maritime headquarters in Atlantic, which is in Halifax, and which liaisons with NATO.

00:19:52.660 They have a cybersecurity war room, unfortunately, now because that's such a big concern in the world.

00:19:57.180 They have national defense headquarters, NDHQ, in Ottawa, and that would be the de facto our version of the Pentagon.

00:20:04.340 on okay so that's when things kick off and the prime minister is notified the chief of defense

00:20:09.660 staff that we have to send the 250 heavily armed troops via a c-17 globe master to this part of

00:20:17.200 the world they get together and they sort it out it's going to be cfp trenton we're going to go to

00:20:21.860 cfp petawawa we're going to get these members of the military this is the equipment they need

00:20:26.300 and this is the logistics to keep them going and they map it and plan it all out so we have this

00:20:31.820 already in place and it's interesting because there's a gentleman we've had on here and i'll

00:20:35.740 recommend you go back and take a look for the episode we did with jeff wilson talking about

00:20:39.640 outbreak response yeah and it's a great great episode it well really jeff is talking in many

00:20:45.440 ways about what we're talking about now we have an outbreak in in lack of housing okay we need an

00:20:51.360 outbreak response to this problem we have an outbreak in uh you know uh food insecurity the

00:20:58.220 price of food uh production of products in our country uh you know use of our resources in this

00:21:05.460 country so these are outbreaks of an issue yes it's not a pandemic and it's not the bird flu

00:21:11.560 uh or a hantavirus those poor people on that cruise i digress having said that it does elicit

00:21:19.420 a response when that group comes together and says we have to have a response for this

00:21:24.080 let's get all of the experts let's run all of the logistics and now i would imagine incorporating ai

00:21:30.760 would make it that much more effective and and less time consumed mike you just nailed it think

00:21:37.600 about how we all came together during covet there was a massive global problem that need to be fixed

00:21:43.520 as soon as humanly possible to get life back going yeah so they did bring in everyone now this is

00:21:50.060 pre-ai so now you would have a group of people you would have ai systems you would have experts all

00:21:56.940 working together it even light speed compared to what it would a decision making before

00:22:02.860 because you would have had ai create some options and ideas and thoughts and you see how it compares

00:22:09.180 to yours and come up with a solution i and we could apply it to the homelessness the unhoused

00:22:16.140 food insecurity the infrastructure uh trying to get things built and get things done in this

00:22:22.460 country and get the economy going so that if donald trump goes on a sits on the toilet again

00:22:27.580 and starts going a true social and creating these crazy ideas we have a defense for it

00:22:33.260 you know we have uh 780 billion dollars in pension assets and a two trillion dollar

00:22:39.180 liability at the moment so we're we're upside down oh absolutely so wouldn't that be carny

00:22:46.460 with the top financial economic minds in the country coming up with solutions coming up maybe

00:22:53.100 with plans no one's thought about that maybe might work here's the other thing a war room excuse me

00:22:57.820 when you leave a war room it's with an action plan yeah and uh a delivery date yes so i think

00:23:06.220 There's an urgency to create what you promise to do by that time.

00:23:10.440 I mean, and yes, we're not at war, but we are at situation point with many of these things.

00:23:17.100 If we don't turn our economy around, there will be no pension.

00:23:20.940 There is no doubt about it.

00:23:22.600 If we don't make, if we don't deploy properly into various industries, we're going to fall behind.

00:23:29.820 our gdp is going to fall out of whack and we're going to fall out of the g7 almost entirely uh

00:23:36.100 and globally speaking right now we're not that productive we need a we don't need a think tank

00:23:43.460 we need an action room that says by this date the action room okay so here's one other point

00:23:49.740 winston churchill said that the most beautiful part about a war room is it keeps you honest

00:23:55.380 absolutely when there are people at different levels of expertise you can't put your own

00:24:00.520 personal self-interest first in a war room you have to do what's best to solve the situation

00:24:07.640 that first and foremost is perhaps why we don't see more of this we see think tanks and we see

00:24:15.160 you know committees and things that take a long time to put into action that protect

00:24:20.420 the government that protect politicians from actually having to deliver anything during their

00:24:25.580 own term could you imagine an action plan that turned around our economy in the term of the

00:24:32.160 prime minister no he's looking at a budget jim that is far beyond his prime minister like far

00:24:39.260 beyond his term so we need these action plans could actually put us in a scenario in canada

00:24:46.140 where we have a prime minister delivering from each of these pillars of desperation at the moment

00:24:52.300 some sort of clarity and action and it can be done because paul martin and jean christian did it yes

00:24:58.660 they did they we had a big deficit and they created a surplus they it can be done and and

00:25:04.600 i understand when mark carney stands up on the house of commons and toes the line that we have

00:25:10.380 great affordability when everyone's like no we don't and everything's fine no it isn't but at

00:25:15.180 the same time this is where all his acumen and all his experience get together and if you had

00:25:21.340 the war room mentality for the economy for production for infrastructure imagine what

00:25:28.440 could be accomplished if you actually brought in the best of the best in the country listen to

00:25:33.640 their advice come up with an action plan let's see if we can get this done by this state it could

00:25:38.040 create great things you would hope right well we've seen historically this works and and another

00:25:42.900 good modern day example of it. And I was just taking a look at the notes that Christophe handed

00:25:47.340 off to me this morning. One of the best examples that we've seen worldwide is the Israeli National

00:25:56.000 Cyber Directorate. Everything that happens that is hooked up to any sort of digital data

00:26:03.940 communication, whether it's to their water treatment facilities, whether it is aerial or

00:26:10.860 uh terrorist attack whether it is crime on the street all of these various things are managed

00:26:17.840 out of one central very focused topical protect our country constant uh vigil so it's 24 7

00:26:27.840 you have to and and the people in there are the experts in each of those fields the water

00:26:33.500 treatment facility people are there on hand all the time so if they get a report they can react

00:26:38.840 to it instantaneously uh that group also reports back consistently to the people of israel what

00:26:49.420 some of their concerns are and they do that to the prime minister simultaneously not behind

00:26:54.560 closed doors so now that transparency to some degree is there not with national security

00:26:58.800 necessarily because a lot of that their surveillance is second to none i'm sure in israel yeah they're

00:27:04.960 the leaders so yeah so uh if you want to follow the leaders on the cyber front let's go copy their

00:27:12.620 model another one because right now it's more provincial so quebec has the huge uh churchill

00:27:19.840 falls hydroelectric we have the opg ontario power group with the combination of hydroelectric and

00:27:25.940 nuclear power so it would i think it'd be a great idea to have a central canadian national

00:27:33.500 think tank that takes in all the information from all the provinces and identifies, oh, hey,

00:27:39.320 there's a problem in Saskatchewan. How are we going to deal with it? Now, I'm going to give

00:27:42.940 you a suggestion. And let's just see where this goes. We're in a war room. This is what it's all

00:27:46.660 about. Let me throw this one up on the board. You know what we need? What? We need the best

00:27:50.960 of the best civilians that know what they're doing. Yes. So what if we put a program out

00:27:56.460 there that said we're going to create a war room on our economy. We're going to create a housing 0.99

00:28:00.720 war room right we're going to create uh an international trade war room whatever the

00:28:06.720 situation is what if we brought what if we made an offer to the best of the best said to them

00:28:12.400 apply we want you it's a great paying job it's an honorable thing to do for your country and we'll

00:28:18.760 make it worth your while with a great pension there afterward and we want you for this period

00:28:23.960 of time on in the war room here's your responsibilities in that war and look what

00:28:28.960 you'll be doing for the country look at your legacy well forget paying consultants let's get

00:28:33.580 people in the war room actually working on the stuff until it is done a war room is there until

00:28:40.820 the work is done that's the other thing i have noticed i mean they they had the war cabinet in

00:28:46.040 england until may of 1945 when they had ve day victory in europe they had no choice right they

00:28:52.600 had no choice it just had to be there when the job was done then they didn't have it and they took

00:28:58.300 the knowledge of how to do that and it got applied pretty quickly to nato so i mean and then the

00:29:03.760 people that left the military applied it to shipbuilding commercial shipbuilding to you know

00:29:09.140 trains making the you know all that kind of stuff around the world and this is where we have to

00:29:15.200 start thinking seriously as a country we are not at war as in war sake but we are at economic war

00:29:21.720 so if we're at economic war and we're worried about massive deficits and now paying i believe

00:29:27.520 it's 13 cents every dollar on the deficit and this kind of thing how do we change that well if we

00:29:34.120 bring in as you say some of the best civilians in the country with top politicians put them together

00:29:40.280 because like let's be honest i could be an mp when my writing get appointed as a minister for a

00:29:46.600 certain portfolio but really i what do i know about this or that so you're relying on junior

00:29:52.660 ministers and assistants giving you like information every day but you're not an expert

00:29:57.600 but if you could bring in a civilian who is an expert imagine what a difference that would make

00:30:02.060 okay so now imagine this at the top level okay imagine that the the the prime minister the

00:30:08.060 cabinet has its own war room that the cabinet that the parliament for one day a week runs like a war

00:30:16.180 room yeah okay put it all up on the board what's our top three priorities this week and what are

00:30:20.980 the top three expenses we can get rid of this week yeah make a case for this this this and this

00:30:25.860 and then every week we start to reduce that cost of running the country it starts to become more

00:30:32.580 transparent we start to see what's happening on a day-to-day basis and we start to see the daily

00:30:37.920 effects of what we're doing as a nation and check your ego at the door yeah and don't worry about

00:30:42.940 your if you're going to be a minister or not and we'll say hey minister dia why is there you know

00:30:48.360 this many people unaccounted for hey you know you go to all the different ministers minister

00:30:53.420 mcginty are we where are we on the submarine purchase and you push votes through do we keep

00:30:58.020 or take vote happening in five minutes and you get it to happen yeah okay if it needs desperately to

00:31:04.120 come back it will find its way back into the government and if a backbencher that no one's

00:31:08.820 heard of in weeks puts up their hand and says i have an idea you listen to them right because it

00:31:13.820 could be a great idea and make a big difference for the country so i mean these are lofty ideas

00:31:18.900 but i think the takeaway is the war room needs to come back we can't be working from our homes jim

00:31:26.840 it's on zoom and making qualified decisions while the cat is using the litter box beside us i'm

00:31:34.840 sorry i think we need to get back to a focused really if we're going to win if we're going to

00:31:41.380 get our economy back we need focused individuals the best that we can get at the highest levels

00:31:47.100 supported by government dealing with each of these issues until they're solved yeah i'm i'm a

00:31:53.200 i'm all about balance so i i believe that there is a place in the world for some remote work and

00:31:59.260 work from home that's some of it but not all of it that you have to have a few two three weeks

00:32:05.120 Yeah, go on vacation and go home on the weekends.

00:32:09.560 But during your shifts, you go to work, especially when you're trying to save a nation.

00:32:13.840 I mean, it depends what it is.

00:32:15.460 I think there has to be time where, okay, I have the information.

00:32:18.540 I need my time in my space, wherever it is, to work through it.

00:32:22.640 Then you get together, say, weekly or every 10 days.

00:32:25.520 Like, I work through this.

00:32:26.900 These are the things I like.

00:32:28.140 These are the things I don't like.

00:32:29.620 And this is maybe what we should implement.

00:32:31.340 Yeah, Jim, go to your office.

00:32:32.380 I'll see you at lunchtime.

00:32:33.220 i don't think people need i think we need to be together yeah you know what but here's the issue

00:32:39.800 now i drove by my local gas station getting my morning coffee was 195.9 a liter okay let's

00:32:45.800 augment people's income who are in these war rooms and let's get them back to work okay so that's

00:32:53.000 good so if if you they're serious about doing that i think it's a great idea i think that's

00:32:58.520 part of the problem for a lot of people you know 30 canadians now their their monthly budgets being

00:33:03.840 affected by the price of gas okay so if we're going to spend some money in this government

00:33:07.780 let's get people the gas that they need to get to the war room every day to make a difference

00:33:11.580 and then yes we'll send it to people's uh we'll we'll podcast it out to people digitally yeah but

00:33:18.860 the people working on this we need a concerted effort in in in a group like we're talking about

00:33:26.560 But, Mike, I'm a weekly war room guy.

00:33:29.660 Yeah.

00:33:29.920 And then the next week, if you haven't accomplished things and you haven't done the work and you haven't prepared, you'll be exposed the next war room meeting.

00:33:39.920 You'll be called out.

00:33:40.880 That is true.

00:33:41.340 Yeah.

00:33:41.600 So I don't care if you do it in your desk office, the building or at home.

00:33:45.460 Just get the work done.

00:33:46.660 Yeah.

00:33:46.820 I want you.

00:33:47.320 I want you in your office.

00:33:48.500 All right.

00:33:48.780 So we'll agree to disagree.

00:33:50.400 But we'll still get back to the war room.

00:33:54.500 You better have ideas.

00:33:55.780 you better have answers and you better have solutions this was a good discussion and by

00:34:00.340 the way it took a war room to convince me to do this properly today and so to the war room around

00:34:04.900 me lieutenant christoph uh thanks for joining sir don't forget to subscribe wherever you're

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00:34:32.080 why does that sound like that what was the senator or somebody running for office at one time

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True Patriot Love - May 14, 2026

Canada Needs a War Room Before It’s Too Late

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