Talking about Government Spending Waste #canada #governmentwaste #corruption
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we have a special guest on the show today. We talk about the CERB, the ArriveCamp scandal, the tariffs, and why we need to stop wasting money.
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$32 billion went to an eligible or questionable recipients, right?
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you had it handed out to 1,500 people who were in jail, right?
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700 people not living in Canada, 400 children under the age of 15.
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It even went to like, what, 391 dead people, right?
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So clearly there was a crazy amount of waste there.
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And one of the big areas of waste that everyone will remember is ArriveCamp.
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remember arrive can that that simple app it launched with an initial price tag of 80 000
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bucks it ballooned all the way up to 60 million dollars right and and what are the government
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executives working on that app do how do they hold themselves accountable they took 340 000
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in bonuses yeah yeah well and you know and after the review you know the gentlemen who were involved
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with the company actually just got suspended for seven years from being awarded a government
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contract. And I think it's probably almost up now. They're back in place. So the two people,
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the two gentlemen that were lobbyists, IT individuals who work from their basement
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who took home $20 million. So yeah, no, I'm with you. That's craziness. But again, the same type
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of review we need to go through and we need to get the legislation in place that will stop that
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from happening you know my worry right now and i i don't know if you're feeling it my worry is this
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tariff thing like honestly this tariff discussion and all the panic around tariffs the other night
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i'm sitting there and i'm listening to the u.s ambassador to canada and he comes on he says hey
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you know by the way canada's effective average tax rate for tariffs is five percent
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the cbc you know interviewer he says what do you mean he says well you know you take the usmca
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hey, Cosmo, you take all those things out, you take the 15% that's left, you have some large
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items that are in on the tariff side. They're important, but quite frankly, we're at 5%.
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You know, we're running around, you know, having all these discussions like, you know,
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the world is ending. And then if you read Stephen Murin's papers, you know, that were written,
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because the head economist from the US, the trickle down effect to the consumer, what is it?
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So, you know, not that it's not important, not that industries aren't impacted. And I think we
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have to be cautious to brush it with a broad stroke but but we also have to be cautious not
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to panic and go running around throwing money everywhere to try to take care of a problem that
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we need to see what the impact is first and i just wish well i sorry for interrupting but i just wish
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that you know the the media you know or political elites or whatever the talking heads i wish they
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just pay as much attention on how much our own governments are taxing us compared to how much
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you know another government is imposing tariffs essentially on its own citizens right like if you