True Patriot Love - Canada’s Military Crisis： Broken Recruitment Exposed

00:00:00.000 Today on True Patriot Love, we're going to meet with Brian Islett, and we are going to talk about defense, and specifically, Karen Hogan's audit reports on housing and recruitment.

00:00:12.060 It is unbelievable when you read the reports, not hitting our targets, not even actually looking at the applications that are filed.

00:00:22.040 You know, I thought when I started that we were actually had no one, we actually had no one interested in getting into the military.

00:00:28.620 Well, I read the report, and it turns out that was totally wrong.

00:00:33.980 190,000 applications over three years, only 15,000 taken.

00:00:43.700 Why? Where's the plan?

00:00:45.900 And then, when they get into the military, there's no housing.

00:00:49.320 We're short housing.

00:00:50.700 We don't have enough beds.

00:00:51.900 We don't have enough apartments.

00:00:53.300 We don't have enough single-family dwellings.

00:00:55.740 We don't have enough multi-dwellings for our military and for our armed forces. 1.00

00:01:01.200 And the condition, quite frankly, there are 1930 homes falling apart, should be demolished, should be rebuilt.

00:01:09.840 We can't get people with the skill sets to do it.

00:01:12.720 Why don't we use our existing military?

00:01:14.520 Well, today on the show, we're going to find out and we're going to hear stories from Brian why exactly all of this is happening.

00:01:21.100 Today on True Patriot Love, we're lucky enough to have Brian Isted with us, and we're going to tackle the pillar defense.

00:01:40.500 And today, we wanted to go through with Brian the budget and also talk about some of the challenges with this budget.

00:01:47.920 So, Brian, welcome, brother.

00:01:50.060 Thank you, sir.

00:01:51.620 Thank you for having me.

00:01:52.900 Yeah, and thanks for coming aboard.

00:01:54.680 You know, I spent about a week on the budget before it passed.

00:01:59.380 And one of the key pillars in the budget was defense and, of course, increasing the spending.

00:02:04.000 And I was kind of astounded with some of the things that were in there from the military and the armed forces perspective.

00:02:10.480 You know, the budget proposes $81.8 billion over five years to be spent in addition to what currently is being spent today.

00:02:20.140 So, that's the increase that they're talking about, which is a huge increase, you know, and that's one of the reasons our deficit sort of climbed to this, you know, magic number and $65 billion going forward.

00:02:34.600 So, $20.4 billion over the next five years to recruit, retain a strong fighting force, including a generational pay raises for the CAF and support of the CAF healthcare.

00:02:48.740 And he did a lot of that, and I think Kearney went and gave everyone a 20% raise.

00:02:56.780 It's being kind of phased in.

00:02:58.680 I think it's $2 billion.

00:03:01.100 He also then, you know, they also put in the budget a $19 billion repair and basically invest in defense infrastructure over five years.

00:03:12.740 So, they have kind of a recruit, train, healthcare infrastructure to accommodate these gentlemen and ladies, ladies and gentlemen, and basically create a better training infrastructure and expand ammunition.

00:03:32.200 So, that's kind of the category.

00:03:33.680 So, you know, you tie those two together, you're $40 billion over five years.

00:03:38.700 So, they're going to roughly $8 billion a year.

00:03:41.720 So, let's, you know, just if we go to the recruitment side, they're looking on average at $4 billion a year.

00:03:50.000 So, as you and I talked about, you know, before the show, if they take out the pay raises, which are about a billion, you know, blended over about a billion dollars a year for the existing 65,000, you know, men and women in the military,

00:04:05.460 we're talking about $3 billion for, to recruit people and to bring them aboard.

00:04:13.160 So, if you're, you know, I don't know, say, what's the average salary of, you know, it varies by position, I know, but like $100,000?

00:04:22.660 No, definitely not.

00:04:26.680 The officers probably now with that raise, but the NCM or the non-commissioned members, the junior ranks are definitely not $100,000 until I think you get to the rank of like a senior sergeant or a warrant.

00:04:40.500 But it's definitely less than that.

00:04:42.420 So, you know, I've looked quickly at the pay, the starting guys, I could see roughly were about $7,000 a month, kind of $6,000 to $7,000 a month is where they were, somewhere in there.

00:04:56.760 That's a lot more than I was making when I could have really used that a few years ago.

00:05:01.380 Holy cow. 0.89

00:05:02.440 Yeah.

00:05:02.800 Well, that's what the increase, because they just went up, they just went up, you figure they went up 20%.

00:05:08.020 So, you know, if they were, they were making $5,000, they got to $6,000, and if they're making $6,000, they got to $7,000.

00:05:14.420 So, you know, they're roughly between $6,000 and $7,000 now, I think.

00:05:18.180 So, plus healthcare benefits, so city costs $100,000.

00:05:21.900 So, if you look through the plan, they're talking about recruiting upwards $30,000, maybe $40,000, depending if raises kind of tail off, people per year.

00:05:32.660 And so, when I looked at it, and I said, okay, so I asked Christoph, I said to him, you know, 30,000 to 40,000 people a year, where are they going to get 35,000 to 40,000 people a year?

00:05:44.700 And then what popped up, and I, you know, I sent you the deck, and I'm going to throw the deck on the screen.

00:05:49.380 And it was really interesting, because there's an Auditor General report, Auditor General of Canada came out, and it said, you know, basically reviewing the recruitment strategies and how many people they've had for the last three years.

00:06:05.240 So, from 2022 to 2025, and they basically, you know, said 192,000 people applied, but basically they weren't able to get even 19,000 of them aboard, recruited, and they fell short.

00:06:22.480 They actually only got 15,000.

00:06:24.480 So, over three years, they were only able to get 5,000 a year, and now they're talking, basically, of bumping that up to 30,000 to 40,000 a year.

00:06:36.220 So, you know, it's very aggressive, and I understand, you know, they're putting a bunch of money behind it.

00:06:43.140 They're really not giving us a plan on how to do it.

00:06:45.680 But, you know, it's interesting.

00:06:50.360 You told the story before the show.

00:06:53.640 You know, when you went, tell your story of how you got recruited, because I think it was very interesting.

00:06:58.000 And it actually, it's almost like you wrote this report.

00:07:00.660 So, I don't want to wreck the story.

00:07:01.700 I want you to tell the story first, and I want to actually read what the Auditor General said, because your story pretty much ties to what she said, right?

00:07:09.000 Yeah, so I started my, I was finishing my degree in criminology.

00:07:15.660 I already had a diploma in police foundation.

00:07:18.320 So, I knew one way or another I was getting into the law enforcement military field with my education.

00:07:23.320 It was what I wanted to do, and it was what my education made sense to do.

00:07:27.740 So, I put, so I think it was the final year of university, 2011, for me, I started applying to reserve regiments in and around the London area.

00:07:37.040 I was at Western, sort of not realizing that nobody was really going to want to take me on as I was sort of planning on leaving.

00:07:44.480 I didn't, I didn't really know how to go about it.

00:07:46.860 So, my serious application, I think, went in probably around late 2011-ish to the big machine, because it's mostly done online.

00:07:55.880 So, between 2011 and 2000, I believe the end of 2012.

00:08:02.480 So, it was anywhere from, I don't want to exaggerate, so it was probably 12 to 16 months, I can't remember exactly the time, but it took 16 months for me to submit my initial paperwork, sort of my intentions online, to meeting with recruiters, meeting with different regiments, sitting down, aptitude testing, and they build a file.

00:08:22.080 So, your file is your sort of recruitment application file of what trades you're applying for.

00:08:28.720 I was applying for, I think it was infantry, artillery, armor, like I wanted a combat arms trade.

00:08:34.580 So, you meet with various people, and you write aptitudes, and they figure out where, and you have to actually score high enough on an aptitude test to get in specific trades.

00:08:45.420 I think the height, I know this, the highest aptitude requirement for a trade is armored officer.

00:08:51.520 So, this is the guy who's in a tank commanding a troop of tanks, which I don't know how many tanks that is, but it's a bunch, and all the crew of those tanks, and they're moving really quick.

00:09:01.580 So, you got to have a, I knew a few guys that were doing this in training, and they were very bright dudes, and this is the highest required aptitude scores to be a troop commander.

00:09:08.820 So, my original application, my first job was infantry, but when I had left London, and I had moved to Toronto, and the recruitment center for the reserve there is on Yonge Street, north end of Toronto, after a year plus of my application already being in, I showed up to meetings with the recruitment staff, where they had told me that they didn't know who I was.

00:09:32.000 They knew I had an appointment, but they couldn't find my recruitment file, and this happened twice.

00:09:35.820 So, twice, they had completely lost my physical file, and had no idea sort of where to start, and kind of sent me back home, even though I'd taken a half day off work to go and accommodate this meeting with these recruiters to keep the process moving, because it had been over a year at this point, now well over a year.

00:09:54.480 And then multiple times I was told that my file had completely physically disappeared by multiple people, so it was a little disheartening.

00:10:03.480 But it kind of speaks to, just going back to the numbers that you said there, so if they're able to sort of haphazardly, with this horrific lack of organization, bring in 5,000 people a year, if they want to 8x scale that to 40,000 a year, I can only imagine that there's going to be 25,000 files lost.

00:10:25.660 You know what I mean?

00:10:26.660 Like, I hope most of this now has gone digital, and it's all sort of streamlined online, and these things don't just evaporate into the ether like mine did.

00:10:32.660 But it's absolutely delusional to believe that the people that work there now, with the same skills, the same, you know what I mean, intentions, the same motivations, are going to be able to 8x leverage their current abilities to bring in skilled people that are meeting the aptitudes that are required, very bright people for certain positions, especially officer positions.

00:10:56.660 I just, I don't think that has any bearing on reality, and if I can speak to, and again, this is not an indictment of people that work in recruiting, there are, I'm sure there are lots of bright people there, I've met a few of them, I was lucky enough to actually have met a few of them, and I work with them later on training.

00:11:12.920 But typically, if I can speak in generalizations, the people that end up at recruiting are kind of the rejects from the battalions, from the regiments that are maybe injured, or lazy, or some combination of those things, and because they're not really valued in their home regiment or battalion, they're sent to recruiting.

00:11:35.440 So you're already dealing with a pool of people that is less motivated, you know what I mean, less ambitious, they're kind of, they just want to show up and go through the motions, they don't care who gets hired or not.

00:11:46.120 I know several people that have ended up in these roles. And it's, it's, I just like, again, delusional to believe that these same folks are going to come in and 8x with the same tools, but maybe 20% more pay.

00:11:58.840 We saw how well people worked during COVID and the lockdowns when everybody worked from home, like they were, they were real motivated, you know what I mean?

00:12:06.340 So this is, this is just more of the same nonsense. I, I, I hope it works. You know what I mean? Let's, let's cross our fingers. And hopefully this comes true. But I, my expectations are pretty low, given my personal experience.

00:12:18.520 Yeah, no, no. And, and, you know, it's, it's almost like you wrote this report because here, you know, I just want to break this down and, you know, to your, to your earlier point, they didn't fix the systems.

00:12:30.820 So in the 2025 auto general report, the systems are still archaic manual. And, and basically she goes on to actually detail talking about the fact that when these 190,000, so if she breaks it down, she actually has a chart in the report that we'll throw on the screen.

00:12:49.960 And, and, and she basically says in 2024, 25, 70, they had 77,000 applications. Then the next, or sorry, the year before 2023, 24, they had 70,000 and 22, 23, they had 43,000 total applications in the three years, 191,000.

00:13:10.740 So they've closed 103,000 applications without any explanation.

00:13:23.180 So no one wrote anything. No one wrote on any of the documents and said they, why they closed. They, they literally just stale dated and closed them.

00:13:32.100 So these weren't, these weren't people that are treated out of the system for aptitude or other reasons. They just went into the ether and vaporized.

00:13:39.180 Yeah, they were, so they only had 8% or 15,000 that were closed by recruiters for reasons or not meeting the criteria.

00:13:51.640 So out of that 190,000, only 15,000 don't meet the criteria. 103,000 of them, they just disappear. They stale date them out. They drag them along, which looks to me like they're not really trying to get them aboard at that point.

00:14:07.140 And then 73,000 are viable. Out of the 73,000, when now she, this is three years, right? This is over a three-year period.

00:14:17.120 Out of the viable ones that still stick around, 58,000 are still in progress when she does the report.

00:14:23.460 So they haven't even been brought up. So you think about it. It's a three-year period. You've whittled it down from 190 to 73,000, 58,000 of them still are in progress.

00:14:35.100 And they bring aboard 15,000.

00:14:40.660 So it's not, the funny thing is this was kind of weird because when I went into this, you know, and I started reading and I was getting ready for our show, I thought to myself, well, you know, I don't meet a lot of people that join the military.

00:14:52.500 So maybe people don't want to join the military. You know, I, having, you know, lived in Canada, born in Canada, lived in the States, I always liked the military, quite frankly.

00:15:01.940 You know, I tried to convince my middle son to join the military. So, you know, I thought it's, I do think it is a great profession and I always thought of it very highly.

00:15:11.120 But I thought, okay, maybe people, you know, as time went on, they just phased out, but it didn't phase out. There are people who are interested in joining the military, like organically, who just never get a chance or never get seen.

00:15:26.160 So this is exactly what happened to me. I was so keen on joining the infantry and I had friends that had convinced me to go to specific regiments that had different opportunities to become airborne.

00:15:38.740 And I met so many amazing people there when I, when I finally ended up getting there.

00:15:44.360 But it's, it's exactly what I just said. It's, it's these, these people that just sort of lack motivation. They lack administrative savvy.

00:15:54.940 They're, they're there to push papers around and there's no accountability.

00:16:00.360 And again, it's kind of a double-edged sword because you don't want people just smashing people through the system either to meet some kind of arbitrary quota.

00:16:08.740 So that you get people that are not as qualified or wouldn't, you know what I mean?

00:16:15.200 They're much less likely to be successful on training because some of the training is really hard in the combat arms.

00:16:20.400 It is no joke. And Canada produces some of the best.

00:16:23.800 I'm very biased here, but if not the best combat arms, infantry soldiers in the world.

00:16:28.400 And, and, and you got to make sure that you, you pick the right person for that role.

00:16:32.620 But at the same time, there are, I was very close after the second visit to recruiting where they said, yeah, like, sorry, pal, we don't know what's going on and where your file went.

00:16:44.320 And like, we're real, but I was so keen and I was so, I was such a geek about it.

00:16:50.120 And, and I really wanted to get there that I was going to, no matter how many times they closed the door, I was going to keep pushing it open.

00:16:56.220 So none of this surprises me at all.

00:16:58.860 All the same systemic flaws exist and they're going to use a giant funnel to try to push through, uh, forgive, forgive me for saying this, uh, you know what I mean? 0.98

00:17:11.260 10 pounds of crap through a five pound bag. It doesn't, or in this, in this sense, it would be 40, 40 pounds of crap through a five pound bag. 0.98

00:17:18.180 It just, it doesn't add up. There's, it's delusional. It makes no sense. It's a perfect example of how disconnected the leadership is from the reality on the ground of the actual people who work there. 0.98

00:17:29.820 Um, and yeah, my, my story is a shining example of, of what's going on.

00:17:34.440 Do you think, Brian, you know, the more I read this and I was reading again this morning and there's, you know, in the auto general support,

00:17:40.980 there's quite a few examples of, you know, she takes samples of 51 people and she follows them for a while.

00:17:46.720 And it's the same as your story, right? Like they get lost. They, they go multiple times for meetings.

00:17:52.940 So she followed up and finally they're not as resilient as you. They just fall off.

00:17:57.620 But do you think it was a funding issue? So, you know, when I was reading it, I'm thinking, okay, 2022 to 25,

00:18:04.460 you know, you heard all the horror stories about, you know, funding for the military diminishing, not having enough funding, funding lacking.

00:18:14.600 You think they were just kind of slow walking it because if the more people they brought aboard, the more issues they had, right?

00:18:21.820 So they had to pay them, they had to house them, they had to, you know, they had to get ammunitions and weapons.

00:18:27.660 They had to do all these things and they just didn't have, so they, they kind of just slow walked it until, you know,

00:18:33.980 the government finally came and now they've made a commitment in this budget to do it.

00:18:38.840 So, you know, hopefully that'll make a difference. I don't know. It just seems, it seems kind of, you know,

00:18:44.800 and this is from a layman's and outside point of view from, you know, Joe Public, which I am, is quite frank.

00:18:50.900 It seems almost impossible that a military, which should probably run on discipline and logistics, right,

00:18:58.660 has a challenge with some of the things we're talking about today.

00:19:01.180 Like when we talk about recruitment, housing, like how can they not be good at the logistics of,

00:19:07.240 it just, it boggles my mind unless there's, there's a motivation somewhere.

00:19:11.000 And that, that's, so if I'll, if I'm trying to understand your question, like,

00:19:17.720 is it a strictly a funding issue versus a personnel aptitude issue?

00:19:22.400 Yeah. Well, I'm thinking, you know, I'm thinking maybe they slow walked it or they just lost the,

00:19:26.860 the applications because quite frankly, they weren't going to want to hit their quota.

00:19:31.820 So the 19,000 quota, they were probably just thinking, eh, you know, we will hit 5,000 and we'll just do that

00:19:39.220 to appease everyone. We'll use some of the funding. It looks like it was motivated because quite frankly,

00:19:44.400 I have a hard time believing in these numbers that 190,000 people showed up, put an application.

00:19:51.320 And, you know, as you alluded to earlier, people who joined the military want to join the military,

00:19:57.440 give it a lot of thought. I lived, like I said, in two countries primarily, but, you know,

00:20:03.700 everyone I knew who joined the military always has a great story about why they have a rationale.

00:20:09.200 So these are people who, you know, came with an intent and then, you know, were discouraged by,

00:20:16.420 like you said, like people who are either unmotivated or probably some goals or some goal setting on their

00:20:23.860 part or, you know, not to meet the objective. So they decided they weren't going to do it. They

00:20:28.600 created a, they created an agenda and therefore they didn't reach their goals. So they, they didn't

00:20:33.340 get to the nine 19,000. They ended up at 15 or 5,000 a year. Um, it just seems like when I read

00:20:40.260 between the lines, it seems like funding or motivation wasn't there. Yeah. I think that's

00:20:45.960 a fair assessment. I think that it's going to be divided across a few categories here. I think

00:20:50.700 motivation is the motivation or discipline slash skillsets of the people in recruiting is probably

00:20:57.860 80% of the problem. Um, nothing, nothing is universe, nothing is completely true all the

00:21:03.220 time sort of thing. So I would say 80, 80 plus percent of that is you're putting weak people

00:21:07.960 in positions that are actually quite important in terms of you're the front face of the military.

00:21:12.540 You don't want the reject who, you know what I mean, is constantly being, can't keep up with the

00:21:19.920 rest of the platoon going to then face the applicants who are coming and being like, yikes, you know what I

00:21:24.160 mean? I don't, if this is who the military is, I maybe, maybe this isn't what I thought it was

00:21:28.440 kind of thing. So that's one of the problems right there. And then all the correlating issues that

00:21:32.580 are happening along with this person's lack of motivation or discipline. And then you have

00:21:37.800 the marketing campaign of the military for the last few years that has been nothing short of an

00:21:43.960 embarrassment. You have rainbow flag, this, you know what I mean? Purple hair, this, 1.00

00:21:50.480 you can come here and be whoever you, you know what I mean? And again, this, this has nothing to do

00:21:57.100 with being black, white, gay, straight. Nobody cares about that in the, I've never met someone 0.99

00:22:02.120 who does there. There's apparently the military, especially the combat arms is full of toxic bigot

00:22:08.200 males. You know what I mean? Who are ready to, who are ready to take down anyone who's not a cis white 0.99

00:22:13.460 male or insert woke, you know what I mean? Word there, but it's, it's not like that at all. I'm sure

00:22:19.680 there's problem people and they get their names come up and they get kicked out or they go to jail, 0.97

00:22:23.920 they did something stupid and then you lose them. But when you have a marketing campaign that

00:22:28.380 surrounds, we need to get this minority represented. We need to get more women doing this. It's like,

00:22:33.780 how about we just blanket, look for people that want to be here and then make sure that the roles

00:22:39.200 they're trying to fill fit their skillsets and aptitudes. And we just do that instead of targeting

00:22:44.560 specific people that historically have less interest or success rate in accomplishing these really

00:22:53.260 difficult training. And I, and I think these things kind of bleed into one another. And when you're

00:22:57.880 losing all these files and you're having good people that are in the cost of living in Toronto

00:23:02.760 at the time for me was insane. Like I had to work as a, I had a full-time job at a, at a, a sales role

00:23:09.340 in a, in a company I had, I had to bartend and bounce on the weekends. And then I also had to do

00:23:14.560 my, my reservist stuff when I finally got through. So you've got people that are trying to get a job

00:23:20.220 that are being literally just a tritted out out of laziness who need money. They need work. So when

00:23:26.780 you, when you, when you've gone through this for months and months on end, these problems just

00:23:30.620 compound. And then maybe they see the commercial of the purple haired, you know what I mean?

00:23:35.160 Whatever that's obese and on the front lines. And it's, there's a, there's a funny story of a friend

00:23:41.720 of mine actually was working in recruiting at, at a, and he, this, this guy is in the special forces

00:23:47.080 now. And he's about as dialed in as it gets. Like he's not one of the examples of the negative

00:23:51.360 people that I've given you. And he was telling me that across his desk or one of his colleagues'

00:23:56.060 desk came the application of a, of a, of a small person, a midget or a dwarf. Forgive me if these 1.00

00:24:03.500 aren't PC terms. I don't know what the, the, the new lingo is to call it, but anyway, so this person

00:24:08.700 and God bless his or her soul. I can't remember that it doesn't matter that they, they want to

00:24:14.000 be involved in, man, let's find something for this, this, this guy or gal to do. But he, he was

00:24:18.800 recruited into the infantry where you have to carry a firearm that is as tall as this person. And you

00:24:25.580 have to carry a backpack that can weigh in excess of 50, 60, 70 pounds at times. And that like,

00:24:32.040 that's just not a thing for someone that maybe, maybe weighs 50, 60, 80 pounds or whatever. Like

00:24:39.200 that, that's not realistic. And this person is going to end up being a liability. That doesn't

00:24:43.260 mean there isn't something they can do that they can absolutely be a valuable supporter behind the

00:24:47.100 scenes. But like this woke stuff has to go and it's, it's absolutely part of the problem. And I think

00:24:53.380 these things are all bleeding together. And we just need to get more savvy people in these roles

00:24:58.280 who are, who are a better face of the organization, who, when someone walks in, they see a checked out

00:25:03.200 woman, you know what I mean, man, who's got his time in and is actually wants to share and bring

00:25:10.480 people in. And I think that would make a difference too. Yeah, no, no, I agree. And you know, it's so this

00:25:16.240 budget, you know, just going to go back for a minute, this budget, which actually calls for a 38%

00:25:22.820 increase in unemployment in the next five years. So over the next five years, the budget actually

00:25:28.980 increases the unemployment expenditures in the country by 38%. So they're expecting a higher

00:25:35.120 unemployment rate, unemployment rate from today, which is already 7%. So, you know, it should be if 0.92

00:25:41.240 you think about it, really, technically, it should be very easy to find good people to come aboard and

00:25:47.280 have the strongest military, you've ever had, quite frankly, because we're almost at, you know,

00:25:53.340 if you increase our unemployment rate from seven, 38% increase, so you're probably you're upwards

00:26:00.180 towards 10%, which is really depression rates, right? Like that's, that's a high unemployment.

00:26:05.960 If you're in the country, we have about 30 million people who are actively able to work. So that would

00:26:11.040 be 3 million people in the country would be unemployed. And that's what they're projecting

00:26:15.980 in their in their budget that they've just gotten passed just got through confidence vote. So you

00:26:21.560 should be able to convert a bunch of those people who are skilled, which that's where I want to jump

00:26:26.100 to next, you should be able to actively bring skilled people in and put them into really great jobs,

00:26:33.200 and that for them to excel, heading towards a career in the military, which a career in the military,

00:26:40.480 at the end, you end up with a pension and benefits, you know, that's something we should actually look

00:26:45.560 at actually adding some more money to, you know, making it more attractive again. So you do your

00:26:50.540 time in the military, you do your 10 years, then you come out, you get your defined benefit plan,

00:26:55.340 you get your benefits, though, all those things are things that we should be promoting highly,

00:26:59.360 right? You know, salary increase, the benefit plan. And quite frankly, if you're out of work,

00:27:04.980 look at it as an option. Like, and I agree. Yeah, because you know, in the report in this report,

00:27:12.260 they actually actually goes through and the auditor general and she says, Well, they're having a tough

00:27:17.940 time, the armed forces are having a tough time recruiting skilled people. I'm like, Okay, well,

00:27:24.260 you know, are you actively recruiting skilled people? You know, are you creating and and so

00:27:31.700 I was I was a little shocked, because if you're having so many applications tonight, if you're doing

00:27:37.520 all this, how can you say you're actively recruiting skilled people? Are you going to trade schools? Are

00:27:43.260 you talking to people? Because I know right now, and you know, Brian, where you're living,

00:27:47.940 where I'm living right now, quite frankly, all the guys I know who are on skilled trades are calling

00:27:54.240 me every day. So my phone rings off the hook every day with five or six calls from guys in the trades,

00:28:00.620 because you know, I did some home building, I've been in industrial construction, quite frankly,

00:28:05.220 that are asking me, Do you have work? You know, do I need to travel? Do I need to be going anywhere?

00:28:10.080 And I feel like saying to them, Have you looked at the military? You know, have you if you consider

00:28:15.640 going into military for like, even a five year stint? And there are there are carpenters in the

00:28:23.480 military, there's electricians in the military, there's plumbers in the military, you can be an

00:28:27.080 HVAC guy in the military, and it comes with all the benefits of the government, like you said,

00:28:32.200 incentives and sort of long term strategies, pensions and healthcare, like all those things

00:28:36.840 can be done in the military, if someone's interested in doing that.

00:28:40.040 Yeah, well, you know, and so this is interesting. So I'm going to jump ahead of it, then I'll come back.

00:28:44.980 But the thing that I found, which was then the next auditor general's report, so she actually comes

00:28:51.120 out and she says, we didn't plan for housing. And I'm like, what do you mean you didn't plan for

00:28:58.220 housing? So they said, you know, the military didn't do a good job at figuring out their housing

00:29:02.680 requirement. So then they, you know, you look at it, and they're there, if you do the numbers,

00:29:08.100 the number of, you know, 65,000 people, they only have housing, whether it be barracks or multiple

00:29:16.060 housing for people of roughly 27% of that 65,000 people actually live in one of those units,

00:29:23.960 the rest live off base. And so they're short, I think they had, they're short almost 3,500

00:29:32.720 dwellings right now. So this is, you know, apartments, homes, whatever it is, they're short.

00:29:38.900 And they're short a bunch of beds for whether they, if they increase the reserve, well, we didn't even

00:29:43.680 talk about that. They're talking about increasing the reserve by bringing in the public service.

00:29:47.760 So, you know, we're going to go to 40,000, then they're talking about bringing another 300,000

00:29:53.380 reserves from the public service, you know, which I don't know, what does the reserve make a couple

00:29:58.320 hundred dollars a day? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, so they're going to come and they're going

00:30:03.860 to do their 10 days a year, whatever they do, you know, which is, which is a little bizarre.

00:30:11.540 I don't know your thoughts on that. Like, you know, I don't know what to do in 10 days.

00:30:15.240 And the fact that you're, you're making public service people do it, right?

00:30:20.480 I don't, I'm not even sure where to begin here with the, with the intentions from the, the all

00:30:25.880 seeing all knowing CDS here, but that is another capital D delusional way of thinking. I joined in

00:30:35.040 the reserve. So I went through the reserve experience and then I moved over to the reg force. And like I

00:30:40.060 said, I was, I was, so I had to be there three days. So a long, a Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

00:30:46.300 twice a month to go through basic training, which was, I think 12 weeks or so, something like that.

00:30:51.080 So twice a month, I had to give them six days total of a month for many weeks. And then you can sort of

00:30:56.800 accomplish, if you're a relatively smart person, you can figure out basic training in that amount

00:31:01.280 of time. It's not that complicated to figure out how to make your bed. And then, you know what I mean?

00:31:05.580 And do some navigation and how to clean your rifle and handle the rifle safely. But to think that we

00:31:10.140 can bring in that many people, I think her, I think her quote was seven days. We want to get them

00:31:16.600 battle ready times 300,000. I don't know where this training is going to be going to be conducted.

00:31:22.860 I don't know where the logistics of, like you said, feeding and housing and training and equipping

00:31:27.920 all these people is going to be there. I think you, you, you mentioned procurement and we can probably

00:31:33.580 move into that shortly. But when, when I was in, when I was in procurement work for the military

00:31:40.020 police branch at headquarters there in Ottawa, the, there was so few firearms. I was, I was procuring

00:31:46.640 new firearms. I was on the team of people that was procuring new firearms, getting all the admin

00:31:50.240 drawn up and getting all the signatures and money allocated $5 million. I believe it was or something

00:31:55.040 like that. The, the military police were finishing a shift and then handing their pistol off to the next

00:32:02.580 police officer to that was in the rotation. You know what I mean? Cause now their, their patrol has

00:32:08.100 started that there wasn't enough pistols to go around the detachments. So now we're going to bring

00:32:13.640 in 300,000 people to use what equipment, the ones that we're sharing amongst each other and

00:32:20.300 cannibalizing amongst each other so that we can have parts for it does. None of this makes sense.

00:32:25.160 And the CDS is absolutely just out to lunch with everything, almost everything she says. And I saw

00:32:32.600 a quote of her being questioned about the, the, the, the quotas or whatever that were in place to get

00:32:39.540 women and minorities or whoever. And she said, well, it's not a quota, but we're trying to target these

00:32:43.760 people. And it's like, look, we need to just bring in people who want to be here, who are going to stick

00:32:49.140 around. It doesn't matter where they come from. It doesn't matter what color their hair or eyes is

00:32:53.900 like stopped with this. It needs to go. And that 300,000 number is laughable on a good day. Like

00:33:01.860 maybe, maybe 1% of that would be realistic to bring in that many people in a given amount of time to get

00:33:08.160 them actually trained battle ready. That if something was to go sideways, we're going to put them out

00:33:13.800 there and they're going to be a contributing part of this machine to, to react to emergencies or threats

00:33:20.320 or something like that, because it's having been through very intense training through several

00:33:26.680 different portions of my career. It's very easy to kill the guy beside you or yourself, or, you know 0.68

00:33:34.340 what I mean? Just, or, or, or slow people down to the point of where now that every you're, you're such 0.97

00:33:38.340 a liability that things are going to go sideways. They're like insert reason why that doesn't make

00:33:42.920 sense. And the fact that they even bring this up in meetings is honestly terrifying. I can't believe

00:33:49.080 how delusional this lady is. Yeah, no, no. Well, you know, the results are, you know, just that, 0.94

00:33:54.740 that proves it right. What we're seeing, you know, 11,700 residential housing units on the bases and,

00:34:01.320 and wings across the country. And then we have 26,000 bed spaces available, like the dormitory type

00:34:07.400 beds. That's what we, that's the inventory of the military. So like some of these plans are like,

00:34:12.520 we're so far away from completing a lot of these plans, whether it be recruitment or reserves or

00:34:17.700 whatever, because we don't even have right now the infrastructure. And the sad part is right now,

00:34:22.940 you know, I just alluded back to trades and skilled workers and everything else. And it frustrates me

00:34:29.680 because the coordination of all these tactics and, and goals are so disjointed where in my mind, you,

00:34:37.720 you know, you're projecting to have a high unemployment rate. Okay, great. You can recruit people

00:34:41.760 to come in that are skilled from there. You don't have enough housing. You don't have enough,

00:34:46.520 you know, the, the housing you do have quite frankly, I stopped reading the housing AG report

00:34:52.300 because it made me so mad. I was just so pissed off that these people were living in the number one,

00:34:58.920 most of them didn't get anywhere to live. And when they did get a place to live, it was terrifying.

00:35:03.360 Their 1930s homes that are falling down. Most of them are unfinished. I couldn't believe that they

00:35:09.700 were putting people in unfinished dwellings. I'm like moldy. Yeah. Well, I would use the word

00:35:14.580 squalor for some of the things that I've seen in places that I lived. I lived in gauge town for

00:35:20.720 the better part of a year during my infantry training. And it was a regular routine for me

00:35:26.880 to take mouse feces out of the inside of my bed, like inside my sheets, the mice would be living 0.98

00:35:33.000 because it was warm. I would get up and you'd have to make your bed. And then you go off and you do

00:35:36.260 your thing, you do your training all day and you come back and there's mouse feces in my bed almost

00:35:41.640 daily. Wow. Yeah. No, no. And, you know, and when I started getting there with, you know, the water,

00:35:48.960 you know, the water wasn't good. The housing wasn't good. I'm thinking to myself, my goodness. So,

00:35:53.780 so what would motivate me? Cause that came to the next thing that she did report on, which I thought

00:35:58.080 was very good. They have as many people. So, you know, we're, we're bringing in these 5,000 people

00:36:03.220 and we have as many people quitting as we do. We're recruiting. So the net net, the interesting,

00:36:11.200 and I didn't even bring it up earlier and I forgot it, but then in the report, she says basically

00:36:15.860 that they did recruit 15,000 people and they had 15,000 people leave.

00:36:23.060 So the net net zero. Sorry, I'm laughing. It's just, it's so crazy.

00:36:26.600 Yeah. So the net net zero. So your goal of, of increasing and, and what it was is they,

00:36:32.420 they couldn't get, they were the, the reasons that they did get, that they did know down,

00:36:36.800 they couldn't get the training they want. They couldn't get the skilled training they want.

00:36:41.180 And they didn't see, they didn't see the direction. So they could, you know, it wasn't

00:36:46.060 going anywhere. They couldn't see it. So they, they lasted four years. And quite frankly,

00:36:50.660 they had almost an impossible time of keeping skilled people. And so I'm thinking to myself,

00:36:56.160 okay, you know, I'm trying to think, so you need to build, you need to build housing. You need to

00:37:04.900 build infrastructure. You have 65,000 people. You're recruiting 15,000 people. Would you not link

00:37:11.600 the two together? And there's a, there's a picture on a report of actually, it's a, it's a guy on a roof

00:37:17.560 with another guy, all dressed in military fatigues. And I'm thinking to myself, would that not be your

00:37:23.380 force? Like, would that not be the skillset that you would be growing? So those, those ladies and 1.00

00:37:28.660 gentlemen in the, in the armed forces would, would learn how to build homes, how to, how to do all

00:37:34.900 the trades that they need to do that. And quite frankly, when, when they do leave, if they wanted to

00:37:39.900 open their own companies, become builders, become developers, they would learn that business. Right.

00:37:44.940 And, and I think where's the disconnect here? Like why, why would someone who goes into the

00:37:50.940 military making a decent salary with a benefit plan who has to really stay for 10 years, not even make

00:37:57.280 it to four years. And I think that's what they need to address. They need to go back and look at it and

00:38:02.200 say, I'm not staying because I can't see the direction. I can't understand my training. I can't

00:38:08.060 understand how I'm getting any skills.

00:38:09.640 I think so I can, I can speak to that a little bit, at least my interpretation of that and talking

00:38:15.840 to guys over the, the, the 11 plus years that I was there, many of the bases that these huge,

00:38:24.080 that you'll, you'll house multiple battalion type, uh, thousands of people basically live on these

00:38:32.040 bases. They're in places in Canada that nobody really wants to live anymore. You know what I mean?

00:38:36.860 So now you have social media, which has completely changed the game of people's access to information

00:38:41.160 and things they can learn and know and see how other people are living. And you're trying to send

00:38:46.120 someone from, uh, Gen Z or, or, you know what I mean? Insert whatever, whatever the 18 year old 0.63

00:38:52.400 person is now. And you're going to try to convince them that they should go live in Shiloh, Manitoba.

00:38:57.340 And this is not, this is nothing against people from Shiloh, Manitoba or anyone in Manitoba or

00:39:02.080 Winnipeg or anything like that. But there is not a lot there for a young single man, or, um,

00:39:08.920 you could maybe argue for a young single woman, she'll be able to have her pick of the young 1.00

00:39:12.520 single guys that are there. Cause it's probably 95, five men and women in the Canadian military,

00:39:17.980 depending on where you are in the country might be a little bit different, but it's vastly filled

00:39:21.880 by men. So you're going to try to convince these young people to go live in Petawawa, Shiloh, 0.94

00:39:26.740 you know what I mean? Gage town. And these are, these are, can be great places. If you're a

00:39:31.840 young family, you know what I mean? You want to raise your, your, your son, daughter, whatever,

00:39:36.420 in these sort of cottage country areas, but be prepared for like eight months of winter.

00:39:41.560 And when it's not frigid outside, it's mosquitoes galore. You know what I mean? So trying to convince

00:39:47.180 someone that this is their path for years, I'm surprised they lasted that long, depending on their

00:39:52.760 postings, maybe cold Lake came up. Uh, it's not called warm Lake. You know what I mean? This is

00:39:57.520 like, these are places that are, they're austere and they're, they're kind of hard to live. And

00:40:02.420 it's, I think that's part of the problem. Um, there used to be a combat arms regiment in no,

00:40:12.620 a combat arms battalion in BC. I think it was in Nanaimo if I'm remembering correctly. So you could

00:40:19.340 have joined the military, uh, as an infantry guy or gal, and then moved out West and lived in the

00:40:25.360 mountains on the ocean. I don't think it would be that hard to convince young people to do that.

00:40:30.580 But when you try to convince them to move to centrally located, like almost in the Arctic

00:40:35.840 circle type place where, you know what I mean? They're not really able to have a social life

00:40:41.480 outside of swatting mosquitoes. A lot of the time it's like, there's not a huge incentive to go there.

00:40:47.660 And I, again, this is not the entire problem at all. I'm not pretending like I know what's exactly

00:40:52.120 going on, but I think this is part of it. And I don't even know where to begin to address building

00:40:58.200 new bases in places that are more appetizing for people to come and live there. Like that

00:41:03.980 undertaking would be unbelievable to find that much space and produce that much housing. But

00:41:07.920 that's definitely, in my opinion, part of the problem that these young people are experiencing

00:41:12.720 and they don't want to live in these places. And I know personally, multiple people that got posted

00:41:18.420 somewhere that made no sense for them or their family. And they just ended up leaving the entire

00:41:23.520 military because they did not want to live in that place.

00:41:27.100 Yeah. Well, it's interesting. This report, it's almost like you're writing it, tell you the truth.

00:41:32.620 You know, the number one request for housing is from single people.

00:41:36.040 So the majority, it's almost like 80% of the basically missing housing for these young people

00:41:42.900 going there are basically for single people. It's for one person. So, you know, and it does

00:41:48.920 appear that's why, but I really, you know, the disconnect, the disconnect that I find, and I found

00:41:54.580 so crazy was you need all these things to happen. And, you know, military has always been, you know,

00:42:00.280 and you know, more than that is, you know, your primary job when you sit down anywhere,

00:42:06.060 whether it's an operation or whether it's just daily administration, is to actually, you know,

00:42:11.420 make your circumstances, your place where you're living the best that it can be and make yourself

00:42:15.660 ready. Readiness is super important. So by training those skills and getting people to learn them,

00:42:21.980 quite frankly, when you set up in somewhere or you set up for an operation in another country or

00:42:26.720 something else, you're going to have a bunch of people who know how to build things. So quite

00:42:31.800 frankly, they're, they're already builders. So what would hurt your own military from becoming

00:42:37.200 its own building faction? And that's the one that kind of confused me a little bit. Like you really

00:42:43.080 should be able to, and I'm not saying that's your primary role, but that should be something that

00:42:47.020 everyone in the military should be good at. And, um, I recently, are you mean, are you talking

00:42:52.000 specific sort of carpentry skills, hands, working with your hands and physically building things

00:42:56.440 literally? Well, even if it's just, even if it's just general labor, you know, a lot of

00:43:00.920 building, a lot of building, anything is just general labor, right? It's coordination, it's

00:43:04.820 program, uh, you know, and, and again, the logistics of actually building anything are very

00:43:09.900 similar to, to military logistics, right? You know, you have to get, you have to get those

00:43:15.320 walls up. You got to get those doors and those windows in, you got to get it heated. You got

00:43:19.320 to get it ready. You got to get it, you know, furnished. Those are all the things you do to

00:43:23.500 get a building ready for, uh, after permitting. But, you know, in this case, quite frankly,

00:43:29.480 you know, we're looking at a, uh, just a, uh, diminishing or, or, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

00:43:37.500 infrastructure for housing in the military that's falling down around itself. And quite frankly,

00:43:43.060 to me, it's like, why would we, we have the money, we have the, we have the people because,

00:43:49.740 you know, the billions of dollars we're putting into it. Why wouldn't we invest some money in

00:43:53.380 our own infrastructure to make people happier to live there? So give them nicer places to 0.99

00:43:58.200 live, have them take the pride and ownership of being involved in that and also get the

00:44:03.380 skillset to do it. So they also are involved so they can say, you know, I helped build that

00:44:08.240 barracks. I helped build that apartment building. I did whatever the house, you know, um, I was

00:44:13.700 part of that. And quite frankly, then, you know, they'll take that skill. And if, when

00:44:19.160 they do leave the military, they'll have just another skill that they can put on their resume

00:44:24.720 that they can move towards if they want to, it just gives you, and I grew up in a, I guess

00:44:29.260 it's a generational thing a little bit, Brian, you know, I grew up in a generation of people

00:44:33.680 that, that, that quite frankly, we all learned to build, you know, my background being Italian,

00:44:39.580 quite frankly, we were taught from like kids, like we were just taught to build, like they

00:44:43.260 were just like, okay, you have to, you have to learn to build a house. There wasn't an

00:44:46.920 option, right? Because everyone was doing it and you were around it. And to me, it's, it's

00:44:52.280 very, uh, I just find it disjointed. I find like, when I listened, when I read this report,

00:44:57.780 I gave up at the end and I'm like, this is just for lack of trying. Like, I think at the,

00:45:02.180 at some point this, the housing issue that came to light in the, the AG report was just

00:45:07.400 the people who weren't trying anymore. You know, they weren't interested in bettering

00:45:11.740 their circumstances and the living. And that, that was actually, I felt bad. It actually,

00:45:16.800 it, at the end of it, when I put it down, I was like, oh, this is terrible, right? Like

00:45:20.000 how can, how can they not see this as beneficial to growing the armed forces? And it is too bad.

00:45:27.640 The disjointed piece speaks to the disconnect from the senior leadership, from the actual folks

00:45:34.320 on the ground. And part of that comes from, in my opinion, again, there's 145 odd generals

00:45:41.420 in the Canadian military, 145 generals for, and, and, and I think actually there's a bit

00:45:49.840 of a psyop from the, the, the public affairs people that give the, that openly speak to

00:45:55.760 the media about what's going on in the military. And I think to a certain degree, maybe some

00:45:59.040 of this is necessary for national security reasons, whatever. But I think the actual

00:46:06.140 military is somewhere between, between Army, Navy, Air Force, Kansovcom. I think that it's

00:46:11.600 probably somewhere between 40 and 50,000 strong. That includes Reg Force and Reserve. So the amount

00:46:17.820 of generals we have for the amount of people we have is utterly ridiculous. You have all these 0.96

00:46:22.980 folks at the very top, you know what I mean? Getting the best postings to exotic places around

00:46:29.200 the world while they do quite literally next to nothing, uh, short of being the face of a Canadian 1.00

00:46:34.700 in, you know what I mean? Some exotic locale where everything's covered and their tax-free money is

00:46:40.120 coming in from the colonels and above. Meanwhile, you know what I mean? Other, the, the corporals

00:46:44.620 and the privates or whoever is living in squalor in a mold filled building. And it's like, well,

00:46:49.640 how come we can't retain these people longer than four years? Well, gee, I wonder why maybe

00:46:54.020 the $250,000 salary tax-free for, you know what I mean? The gentleman that's like living

00:46:59.140 in Maui or whatever, like I'm pretty sure there are literally Hawaiian postings for people and

00:47:03.640 good for you. You earned it. But like, we, we need to trim the top down and, and start,

00:47:09.460 you know what I mean? Looking for the skilled people that you're talking about, how to incorporate

00:47:12.800 that into actually literal builders, like maybe a campaign targeting skilled labor that,

00:47:19.640 maybe this isn't the right verbiage, but results in a red seal or something. You know what I mean?

00:47:23.720 Like when you leave the, you're put in your two, three, or however long it takes to do that.

00:47:28.340 Like now you can go off and have a business because you did your three years of, of carpentry,

00:47:34.500 electrician, plumbing, or whatever. You know what I mean? And now go off and do your own thing if

00:47:38.860 that's what you want or stick around and keep building depending on the incentives or where you're

00:47:43.820 at in life, but maybe they need to increase the campaign for those folks by about a hundred X,

00:47:49.280 you know what I mean? To try to bring in that, to meet the need, but it's from the top down,

00:47:53.740 it's broken. And it's exactly what you just said. And maybe a campaign targeting these skilled people

00:47:57.760 that you talk about would make a difference. Yeah. No, I think it's alignment, right? I honestly think

00:48:03.260 it's so far out of alignment and, and I, you know, and thank you for that. Cause I don't know the

00:48:08.920 composition, but just reading the reports, it's like, how could it be this far? I don't like it's

00:48:15.100 just unbelievable. And you take the, you take the full budget and you look at the amount of money

00:48:19.460 they're going to allocate. And we haven't even talked about procurement yet. And I think probably

00:48:23.340 we'll end up doing on the next show, but you know, you wonder how it got so far out of alignment.

00:48:29.080 Like how did, how did you not figure out number one, you didn't have enough housing. So even if you

00:48:35.660 would have hit your targets, even if you would have hit, when you did it, even if you would have

00:48:39.420 hit half of your targets for those three years, you still didn't have enough housing.

00:48:43.300 Can I, can I jump in with that? With yet another example of something I witnessed when I was a

00:48:48.380 military police officer. So I was working in force development, which is a fancy way of saying sort

00:48:53.580 of procurement and planning for future procurement and skills and the equipment that goes along with

00:48:59.000 these abilities and abilities have to be maintained and augmented to continue on.

00:49:04.940 So there was one meeting in particular that I was the secretary for of all the senior leadership

00:49:11.460 from military police across the country. And I'm sitting in this meeting and I'm working from home

00:49:18.320 at the time. And I'm taking notes on the meeting about what they're, what they're forecasting and

00:49:24.900 planning for the military police branch for the next five to 10 years. So keep in mind what I said

00:49:30.060 before about there's not enough pistols to go around and they're cannibalizing them to find

00:49:35.280 parts for other pistols so that they can maintain at least the basic operational readiness. And in

00:49:41.660 this, sorry, I can't, I can't not laugh at this because it's so I'm going to say delusional 50 times in

00:49:47.480 this podcast, because that's exactly what this meeting was. I couldn't believe what I was hearing

00:49:51.420 from the colonels, the majors, the people planning the next five to 10 years for the military police

00:49:57.180 while their pistols are falling apart. They were talking about bringing in drones to put in the back

00:50:04.840 of military police cruisers. So let's say you have a, you have an IARD situation. So this is like

00:50:12.480 someone's immediate action response drills or something it stands for. So you, let's say you

00:50:18.020 have someone barricaded in a building, maybe they're an active shooter, maybe there's a hostage

00:50:22.360 or whatever, like something's going on somewhere where you need a perimeter security, a cordon.

00:50:27.640 It would help to have eyes on from all angles. So they're talking about putting drones

00:50:31.780 in the trunks of police cruisers so that the, so the military police officer can show up to

00:50:38.260 the scene, pop open his trunk and start flying a drone above, above the scene to have a bird's eye

00:50:46.840 view of perimeter. You know what I mean? Eyes on me as a capability moving into the future. Meanwhile,

00:50:55.020 they can't retain people. They can't fix housing. They can't, they don't have enough pistols to go

00:51:01.420 around. You know what I mean? The food is poisonous. The water in the building I was working at was

00:51:06.340 condemned because they thought it had Legionnaires disease. Like the, I could bore you forever with 0.93

00:51:11.300 the list that goes on and on. And I'm sitting in this meeting trying to take notes while my

00:51:15.500 microphone's muted because I'm the same as I'm doing now. I'm laughing at this. It's so utterly

00:51:20.200 ridiculous. And then someone with a lot more experience and staff than me will come in and say, 0.97

00:51:24.860 yeah, but we need to, you know what I mean? Plan for the, and we need to allocate where we're going

00:51:29.000 to be. And it's just like, okay, sure, maybe, but maybe you should also think about taking care of

00:51:34.480 and solving the problems that are immediately on fire in front of you. It's that dog, it's that

00:51:39.360 dog in the room cartoon meme where the room is on fire and he's drinking coffee and he's, this is

00:51:44.560 fine. You know, this, this is fine. That's, that's what that place was. And I couldn't get out of

00:51:49.580 there fast enough. Honestly, when I was in that role, I, it was just cringy. Yeah, no, no. And you

00:51:55.440 know, when you describe it, that's what was, you know, that's how I felt reading all of this

00:52:00.480 in the last few days. It's like the building blocks are missing. It really is. It's like the

00:52:05.340 foundation of this, this house is not built properly. And quite frankly, you have to kind

00:52:10.780 of knock it down and start again and re-dig and then start. Yeah. But instead of fixing the

00:52:15.240 foundation, you're going to put in an advanced new, you know what I mean? Skylight system with

00:52:20.220 radar and 5G. I mean, instead of like patching the leaks that the water is flooding into,

00:52:26.560 that's, that's how they treat this. It's, it's wild. Well, and, and that's exactly,

00:52:31.780 you know, what, because when you do read the budget and you do read all the sophisticated

00:52:36.260 software and hardware that they're actually planning, you know, whether it be in the Arctic

00:52:40.660 or wherever it is, you know, you think to yourself, oh, wow, this is cool. Right. And then you start

00:52:45.260 reading the AG reports and you're like, wow, this isn't so cool anymore. So, you know, there's,

00:52:49.660 there's a disjoint definitely between the two, the two stories for sure.

00:52:55.200 Brian, you know, I'm going to end it there. I'm going to, uh, what I want to do is, uh, next time

00:53:00.700 I really want to get into procurement because quite frankly, there's been so many stories,

00:53:04.860 whether it be airplanes, submarines, all the stuff going on. Um, so next show that, you know,

00:53:10.780 let's get together and dig into that. I really look forward to it. I enjoyed spending time today

00:53:15.580 and, uh, thanks for the stories because that gives me perspective. Cause when I was reading this,

00:53:19.860 I just, by the end of it, I just threw it down. I thought, oh my goodness. And you could walk away,

00:53:24.100 but we shouldn't walk away. The, the real thing is it's not for us to walk away, right? We got to

00:53:29.720 try to fix this because if we're going to spend all this money, spend this time and have a great

00:53:34.480 military, we got to rebuild that foundation. So thanks very much. Exactly. You, you, from an

00:53:40.140 outsider perspective, I think you have your finger on the pulse pretty well. So thanks. Thanks for

00:53:44.120 having me. And I'm happy to come back and share more about the other stuff that I saw. Just prepare

00:53:49.060 to cringe, just prepare to cringe a little bit more every time, every time I come back.

00:53:52.900 I will. I will. Thanks Brian.

00:53:54.680 Thank you. All right. Thank you. Stay tuned guys, subscribe. And we look forward to seeing

00:53:59.400 you soon when we talk more on the pillar of defense.

True Patriot Love - November 26, 2025

Canada’s Military Crisis： Broken Recruitment Exposed

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