True Patriot Love - November 06, 2026


Is Canada Forgetting the Meaning of Remembrance Day？

Canada Is Sitting on Potash Goldmine… So Why Aren’t We Cashing In？ ft. Daymon Guillas

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00:00:00.000 so i'm sorry if i get a little emotional but that's my late great father air force freddy
00:00:14.280 my dad with the ground crew from 427 tusker squadron we carry the load c-130 hercules squadron
00:00:21.580 at a cb trenton on operation box top in 1975 and they were on canadian forces station alert
00:00:28.240 a six-hour flight from Trenton to the tip of Ellesmere Island,
00:00:32.480 the farthest northernmost point on the earth in humanity in Canada
00:00:36.320 before the North Pole, and that's an operation.
00:00:39.060 They continue to this day with the Royal Canadian Air Force
00:00:42.180 Operation Box Top, and they bring supplies to the troops
00:00:45.940 who are in alert that far north.
00:00:48.140 You have to look on the map and go,
00:00:49.740 I can't believe how far north that is from civilization in Canada.
00:00:53.760 I can't imagine how you feel when you look at that photo
00:00:55.740 because it actually gives me the chills to see that era of soldier doing something that in that
00:01:01.740 era was pretty remarkable yeah that was the cold war and so when we talk about why i wear a poppy
00:01:07.960 and why we take a moment of remembrance day um we talk about we people remember world war one and
00:01:13.220 world war two and afghanistan and that but there also was the cold war which started in the late
00:01:17.900 40s throughout the 60s 70s and 80s until the fall of the soviet union and people like my dad and
00:01:25.040 other men and women who serve were you know all over the world and here's the other thing more
00:01:30.020 canadians died in peacekeeping missions than they did in afghanistan you know we had canadians going
00:01:35.300 to war zones to keep the peace and losing lives and so for decades a lot of canadians were going
00:01:41.300 to places uh whether it's remote areas and the tip of ellsmore island in the middle of nowhere
00:01:46.520 in the bitter cold or all over the world and that's that's why we take a moment on november
00:01:51.480 limit and that's why i think we wear poppy i think uh my whole life actually i've been viewed what
00:01:57.240 canada does with our military as the uh the savior's crew the people that go in with the
00:02:04.360 engineers the solution for food uh you know protecting certain parts of uh of citizens
00:02:12.920 experience where otherwise they wouldn't have it i don't very often think of canadians as out there
00:02:19.560 grinding a war um on the front lines as the i guess the instigator of the war
00:02:27.080 but boy we are beloved by so many countries in europe for certain yeah uh you know in in the
00:02:32.920 netherlands and in france um there's still this connection that is so really helpable about how
00:02:41.960 canadians from our service have been viewed around the world and what they've done and what impact
00:02:47.640 they've had you know and a lot of the canadians who served in the first world war second world war
00:02:53.320 they were poor um they a lot of them were immigrants from other countries who hadn't
00:02:57.960 been in canada long and they answered the call to serve they and if you read pierre burton's book
00:03:04.840 vimy about what canadians dealt with in the trenches in vimy ridge it's unfathomable that
00:03:11.480 a human being could survive that let alone go over the top and then and then fight and so yes
00:03:17.000 you were 100 right right about what canadians are viewed as but uh when provoked when they have to
00:03:23.880 fight they have a well-earned reputation of being people you don't want to mess with that is also
00:03:30.120 true uh the j2 is the jt jtf2 f2 uh element of our service i think is feared by terrorists yes and
00:03:38.760 the bad guys around the world absolutely a very quick favor before we continue a large percentage
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00:04:12.360 the show you know it's it's interesting because we were having this discussion uh back uh in the
00:04:18.760 offices you know outside of the studio a couple of weeks ago and i said let's get ready for this show
00:04:23.460 and i asked the crew i said what do you guys know about remembrance day and it's not a lot
00:04:29.400 so they didn't have a lot because they a few of them have just arrived yeah quite frankly and
00:04:35.160 they've only been here a short period and then uh other ones are too young so they don't have a big
00:04:40.240 history and and you know uh we were prepping for the show and i said you know how do we how do we
00:04:45.680 keep that message alive because you know mike before the show you were talking about legions
00:04:50.880 and and basically your dad and uh i think it was a medal he got or a pin yeah they've celebrated
00:04:57.240 their 100 year anniversary of the ontario legion my grandfather who is actually uh down to you and
00:05:05.300 did uh build airplanes that's right we built a lot of them back then yeah he was uh and you know
00:05:10.740 he was a sheet metal worker who basically uh worked in facilities and ended up managing the
00:05:17.080 facilities department at kodak wow kodak remember kodak cameras and uh he was uh recruited uh because
00:05:24.420 of um he had a cleft palate and they didn't really know how to deal with him in the war so they put
00:05:28.900 them uh to build planes and mostly with women and down so it was a huge uh female uh staff who
00:05:35.640 actually worked with him uh and they produced a ton of planes and he left me his manuals for
00:05:40.920 building the planes different planes oh wow the arc the specs for the designs and um so it's
00:05:47.480 interesting so i remember it because of him the stories um you know the pictures and the books he
00:05:53.620 gave me the legion now the sad part is the legion that he belonged to which was downtown he was the
00:05:59.200 last one alive yeah and we shut it so i had to go and he had to close the books and i i helped him
00:06:04.840 get everything piled up we gave the landlord back the keys and the legion closed right there's a lot
00:06:10.220 of legions that have closed paul over the last decade or so yeah yeah so how do you keep so the
00:06:15.840 you know and this is this is something we have to keep alive and i think also i think it's um when
00:06:21.900 look at the government now and their strategy for defense i think it's packaging it to the point
00:06:29.500 where canadians will start to understand uh defense and uh military and what it means to
00:06:37.180 canada and a new definition so it's getting repackaged now again and i think that's important
00:06:42.940 now whether or not they'll spend a lot of time on the history like we do our generation is probably
00:06:46.940 one of the last generations who will focus on it in that shape and form just because our parents
00:06:54.480 and our grandparents right and we have a direct connection to people whereas you know our kids
00:06:59.800 and their kids less and less and new Canadians even less right that's a really good point we
00:07:05.120 had the history around us yeah on on Remembrance Day I'll share a memory with you Remembrance Day
00:07:11.160 was consistent in my youth yeah we went to the parade yep uh everybody marched in the parade
00:07:19.000 and uh there were veterans there that had fought in in world war ii had fought in korea had been
00:07:26.840 my own service my uncles and there they were marching and you could see them and
00:07:31.400 with your eyes see these heroes and these strong individuals that made that impact so much stronger
00:07:38.600 well i so sorry i'll tell you this i i grew up in a military family and so i was around it my
00:07:44.440 whole life but for my kids i have to say i have to give a thumbs up to the ontario school boards
00:07:50.440 because they would have and i wondered about this because i know other provinces have a stat
00:07:55.000 but i realized that by not having an estate holiday in ontario the kids would do an assembly
00:08:02.520 in the gym on remembrance day and each class would make a wreath of poppies and do a little
00:08:09.560 a story or a poem or a piece of art about remembrance day and why we remember and they
00:08:15.720 learned a lot during the years at elementary school by those assemblies i was very impressed
00:08:20.920 of attending them i can still remember the the cardboard sheet with the flanders field poem on
00:08:27.000 top yes that my and my kids coloring it in right on a day that was really going to be so i do have
00:08:32.920 to hand it to the school boards that is an education i think across canada we do make
00:08:38.680 this part of the curriculum it should be it's part of our history but to paul's point we've got to
00:08:43.720 make sure that that's really the case because and that we even adhere to it more now than ever
00:08:49.480 because as history fades yeah it's it's us that let that happen well and who's the new hero right
00:08:56.440 and that that really becomes like having spent i mentioned to you having uh spent you know quite a
00:09:01.160 bit of time in the u.s working and living um i think what one of the things they do a pretty
00:09:07.160 good job or a decent job of they actually have kept the new hero forefront so absolutely you
00:09:12.520 know the soldiers who come back from the new conflict like um latvia now quite frankly we
00:09:18.200 should be like we should be making a really big deal about that like and it actually bothers me
00:09:23.720 a little that were not did you see calgary though the other day one of those poor soldiers that
00:09:28.120 died in wainwright yeah they were bringing him back and they lined the highway in calgary cars
00:09:34.120 yes like it was very emotional to see flags it was like that's i mean another thing is our our
00:09:40.680 highway of highway heroes is pretty pretty uh consistently used for those purposes nbc did a
00:09:47.400 documentary about it because they had never seen anything they they were blown away by it it is a
00:09:52.200 beautiful uh tribute that we do i think that it is really important that it's the things like that
00:09:59.000 the adaptation of technology so that we can you know actually connect in the field with our
00:10:05.480 soldiers to the schools to let them experience who these heroes are what they're doing but it's not
00:10:10.680 just tragedies right so yes that's the other thing about and oh that's a good point it's very good
00:10:15.240 we got to highlight people who come back and actually so i think um you know i lived in
00:10:20.680 annapolis i told you that this story and and quite frankly the naval academy is in annapolis okay
00:10:25.800 officers that go out in annapolis um they do i think and this is what we got to do the officers
00:10:31.480 that we have when they come back they they also fold into uh very usually very good jobs when they
00:10:38.600 leave the military um in industry because they're um they herald them they they put them on a pedal
00:10:46.280 still yeah you know and they a lot of them go to from like uh annapolis to wharton business school
00:10:51.480 like they're they're brought into higher education because quite frankly they serve their country
00:10:56.920 they want to get them elevated and they want and so leadership leadership and when you meet them
00:11:01.800 it's really nice because when you meet them when you meet them uh around the city and the the state
00:11:08.760 um you know people point them out and they tell you like when you go to a meeting they'll say you
00:11:14.600 know you know he was an officer you know in the naval you know right the navy and quite frankly
00:11:21.480 he went to wharton business school and you're like wow that's really impressive and and you
00:11:27.640 we as a country uh the mainstream media and the department of national offense have to do better
00:11:34.040 and i think about wainwright for sartex now sartek is a search and rescue technician it is the most
00:11:40.200 difficult trade in the canadian military you have to be airborne qualified a combat medic able to
00:11:46.840 swim and deal with all sites of weather day and night they dropped four of them at night into the
00:11:53.720 fire and wainwright to administer first aid to troops i'd like to see an interview with one of
00:11:58.920 them but we did there's we know that they dropped yeah and we know what they did but we never heard
00:12:05.320 anything from them yeah so canadians would like to hear that story hey before we go any further
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00:12:26.420 don't know a recent canadian soldier i've seen on tv right well well it's interesting so you know
00:12:32.940 went through a couple hurricanes which i mentioned to you and uh spent some time with a couple ex-seals
00:12:38.560 uh who did the protection on the property I was I was uh building and uh yeah interesting just
00:12:46.720 just listening to them talk as we were moving around through the you know we're there for
00:12:51.520 eight days together um you know and just listening to them talk about experiences and life and
00:12:56.500 everything else it's just the story like if we could just hear um the Canadian stories and that's
00:13:03.100 the it's the storytelling of what they go through and it's not always about war like it's interesting
00:13:07.600 they were telling me about training like you know because i was triathloning at the time
00:13:11.600 and they were telling me about you know the the floating in the water when the water was like
00:13:16.480 50 degrees in the ocean and you know uh all the you know diving and things they had been through
00:13:23.520 and missions they had been on and sometimes they didn't have any contact or any shooting or any
00:13:28.640 uh casualties but they're just telling us stories and you know what it was like to you know rappel
00:13:33.760 out of a helicopter into the ocean and stuff like that we have elite troops that do that
00:13:37.760 all the time and we never hear about it right we're never doing have access so how how much
00:13:42.880 more as a canadian would you appreciate to hear someone from uh the the elite of the elite of our
00:13:49.680 military and their training and what they do and how they got there very much actually and i'd love
00:13:54.240 to see them positioned like nicely in front of our youth that's not a warmongering thing that's
00:13:58.800 that's interesting as a canadian but then our kids will see um role models yes and then those role
00:14:05.920 models will become their heroes right in that and i think that's something it's the gap you know and
00:14:11.280 our heroes to your point i think mike you mentioned it you know my uncles my uncle served and quite
00:14:16.400 frankly you know two little scottish guys tough as nails and but you know i hunt and fish with them
00:14:22.080 and they were tough and they were good mentors to me made me do a lot of uh stuff i didn't want to
00:14:26.880 do and quite frankly that was good for me right because they had a hard life and they talked
00:14:32.400 about it and you know we go through it but with that level kind of disappearing unfortunately as
00:14:38.240 they disappear off the earth we have to place it with someone or something and it can't always be
00:14:43.120 a tragedy like to tell the story every time we see the military it can't be because someone died
00:14:48.400 oh but what about it has to be someone who's succeeding right right like the like when they
00:14:52.720 show one of our guided missile frigates in the in the north atlantic in a sea state five but they're
00:14:58.960 working i'd like to hear as a captain like how does that even happen and the and the waves are
00:15:05.360 actually coming over the top of the ship and they're still doing their job yeah yeah but like
00:15:10.240 but what this is one thing i will conceding you're right paul the american military is a much better
00:15:16.720 job working with hollywood tv and filmmakers and their public relations telling those stories
00:15:24.000 we as canadians it's all a big secret and like you said your most games don't have a clue what's
00:15:28.720 going on yeah unless it's tied to the post office uh tv commercial we probably don't know about it
00:15:34.080 you know what i mean like but but as we're gonna now you know we are so one of our key pillars
00:15:39.440 coming up which we're gonna have a budget dropping uh tomorrow uh yeah yeah and and one of the key
00:15:45.280 pillars is defense so as we do that we have to actually create focus and it's not always the
00:15:50.720 it's not always the the front line soldier yeah right it's the tech you know it's the tech it's
00:15:55.840 the it my dad ground crew it's the expert that's being up in when it's minus 40 servicing the
00:16:02.000 engines on an aircraft so it flies it's it's the tech who's actually building the better guidance
00:16:06.800 system for the drone is becoming you know it's that person that we're highlighting that's in
00:16:11.680 because you know what i learned actually on shows i've done on military in the past
00:16:15.920 it's not that front line guy who's in the in the in the middle of the fray it's the six support
00:16:20.880 people that get him into the or her absolutely onto the front line and make that happen and back
00:16:25.680 safely and back safely off those are the people that make it all happen that we don't see and
00:16:30.480 those are the people that i think like when you when you watch uh you know i'm gonna i'm gonna
00:16:34.720 throw one at you right we have we have uh football games you know we have uh university teams in
00:16:40.800 canada right yes we do army navy games you ever watch every year my dad my dad since i was a kid
00:16:48.560 would get me by the tv and he would watch the army navy game with me it's been huge for 100
00:16:54.320 years in america he would call me and say get over here you know the the the triple crown of horse
00:16:59.680 racing you know the kentucky derby greatness belmont and then the army navy i can remember
00:17:04.720 about five events my father and he'd say look at those men and look at those women and look at the
00:17:11.280 uniforms and he loved it he would sit there all afternoon talking about and you know watching that
00:17:16.240 it's not a great game it never was a great yeah yeah the talent's not you know they're not but it
00:17:20.720 is a display of pride it's a hundred or eighty thousand of them in a stadium and you know then
00:17:26.000 and people get to look at it right and there's enormous parties leading up and afterward like
00:17:30.800 Like, it's a big deal.
00:17:32.400 We need to do more of that, to your point about, you know.
00:17:35.660 And I would love to see a Canadian filmmaker.
00:17:38.540 You know, so do a show about someone doing something.
00:17:43.300 It's not like you say the tragedy, but something like, oh, that's, we say, that's cool.
00:17:47.820 You know, Netflix, I watch shows now from so many different countries.
00:17:51.500 I don't even know if anything's made in the U.S. or Canada anymore.
00:17:54.300 This is Canada's opportunity to take some of our history out there.
00:17:58.240 Do you ever watch a Bollywood film?
00:17:59.980 Yeah.
00:18:00.160 they they depict their military as so dominant and strong and heralded yeah you know and whether it
00:18:08.180 be pakistan india yeah all those countries show their military is like it's amazing when you watch
00:18:13.220 their films sort of how they depict them and you know uh minister mcginty uh shout out to them
00:18:21.540 to him but quite frankly good idea you know we have a lot of uh film people in the country right
00:18:27.580 god who are looking for work so many a lot of common you know great people in the tv film space
00:18:33.580 you know would it be nice to actually be continually having that film group taping different
00:18:38.300 either docu series or create a docu series so i know they did one on discovery um they showed
00:18:45.580 pilots training to fly the f-18 yeah and it was actually really cool but how cool would it be to
00:18:51.660 follow someone who's gone through basic military qualification and now they're with the ppcli or
00:18:59.660 the vandu's and now they're training to be one of the elite soldiers what do they do how do they do
00:19:04.220 it all that kind of stuff like oh my god wow look what they're doing how about how do we handle
00:19:08.460 engineering when everything has been blown up in a country and what does the engineering team do
00:19:14.460 the sappers they build the bailey bridge that's been around since world war ii they still build
00:19:19.740 them in all sorts of conditions i'd like to see it yeah and i think jim that that's a great uh
00:19:25.340 comment because then we can tell the back story so it's a little to go you know it's funny i do this
00:19:32.060 when i'm uh whatever business i'm in and we're dealing with at the time but i'll tell i'll sit
00:19:37.580 there and i'll say to people here's the history of you know i like the history of things and i'll
00:19:41.740 try to explain to the history of you know why remembrance day and i'll talk about christmas and
00:19:47.100 we just did uh thanksgiving i did a show on thanksgiving for local and i try to explain
00:19:52.060 how they came about i see people's eyes roll over a lot of times you know and but if you start to
00:19:58.460 show people what's happening today and then do the backstory of how it came to that there it has
00:20:03.980 context yeah then that's kind of and they go oh i didn't know that but you have to start them here
00:20:08.380 because to show them what went happened in 1930 it's tough it's tough and especially today the
00:20:14.860 kids are playing video you think about it yeah you know call of duty has no canadian depiction
00:20:19.500 yeah my grandfather quite frankly you know because i grew up in an era where you know
00:20:23.820 we didn't have all that but frankly you know when i needed him when i was building a house
00:20:28.380 or something he'd come over and he'd bang out an east trough or put my downs but you know my east
00:20:33.420 troughs and my downspouts my grandfather built my first three houses he put them up like he hammered
00:20:38.780 them out on the on my driveway we you know we screwed them in we did it ourselves like those
00:20:43.740 are the things that i got to learn from him and therefore when he was talking to me i understood
00:20:48.780 what he's talking about because he's talking about making a plain wing so you know i understand now
00:20:53.900 how he could do it he had the because he had the metal yeah yeah we can't connect with our kids
00:20:59.260 that way anymore because that's all gone and the technology there is one way to do this making an
00:21:03.660 f yeah i'll tell you a way to connect yeah the one thing the americans have done um they will
00:21:09.740 go back and realize you know in 1965 there was this guy mike wixen he deserves a better medal
00:21:17.180 we we missed the boat and they'll bring up and with there is a gentleman named tommy prince
00:21:23.260 he's a first nations canadian from manitoba and he's the most highly direct highly decorated
00:21:30.220 indigenous canadian soldier in the history of canada oh wow and he was a member of the first
00:21:35.980 special service force the devil's brigade the first special service unit uh special forces
00:21:41.820 unit in world war ii should have got a victoria cross in world war ii didn't because he was
00:21:46.940 indigenous canadian left the military canada goes to korea they call him back he goes to korea
00:21:52.860 even though he didn't get the medal yeah so because he felt the pride of the uniform the
00:21:56.700 pride of the country if mark carney wants to reach out to everyone all canadians of
00:22:01.980 how about have a ceremony for the indigenous people of western canada for the canadian army
00:22:08.860 and say we're going to fix something that was wrong we're going to make a right and we're going
00:22:12.540 to award him and his relatives and his victoria cross our highest medal of honor we haven't given
00:22:19.100 one out since 1945 and we had men in in afghanistan that probably should have won it but
00:22:24.700 we didn't give it to them yeah there was some brave moments and there's a couple of stories
00:22:28.140 that came out of that yeah uh out of afghanistan that were outstanding featuring canadians yeah a
00:22:32.860 guy named jess la rochelle that's the one who unfortunately passed away a couple years ago
00:22:38.700 he totally should be given a retroactive victoria cross along with tommy prince that and then people
00:22:44.620 would like see the story on cbc wow wow that's we never forget our heroes yeah well i didn't know
00:22:51.340 that that guy's amazing but you know those were in the big misses big misses i agree those were
00:22:55.980 in years where we were we weren't even recruiting we were saying we're trying to recruit but we
00:23:01.900 weren't even recruiting you know the money wasn't being spent this is the time and to me this is
00:23:07.820 this is you know as we as we put this plan together and we get on board with the plan on
00:23:13.340 building and developing a military inside the country this is the time to start to do that
00:23:18.620 absolutely and what better way to go by the way look at some of these people that you do
00:23:23.660 you want to be like you want to be part of this do you want to carry on that legacy so it's really
00:23:28.780 it's it's it's honoring the past but then creating a starting point for the future and that's really
00:23:33.820 what i think i love this idea yeah the message needs to be i love this idea we don't need to
00:23:38.940 forget the past it's really really important it's our pride point but we need to continue to have
00:23:44.060 pride and make those desirable positions like for young canadians i mean right now if you're
00:23:51.260 private in the military it's 52 grand plus benefits that's that's pretty damn good for a
00:23:56.700 first job right and you could be learning how to weld or be a machinist or like whatever yeah well
00:24:04.060 it's one of the few places pretty soon in canada you're gonna be able to find a way to develop a
00:24:09.740 trade because yeah is our you know our residential development goes down or commercial development
00:24:14.780 goes down colleges are diminishing it's very hard to get any learn a trade so quite frankly
00:24:19.980 joining the military getting a trade figuring it out you know they're they're still building stuff
00:24:24.300 it's just all i all i've ever asked any canadian i wear my poppy for personal reasons you don't
00:24:29.980 want to wear it i don't care but 11 a.m on november 11th for god's sakes just take a
00:24:34.860 a minute out of your day and say thank you. That's not hard. No, it's 100% expected.