True Patriot Love - The Auditor General： New Revelations About The RCMP and Immigration

00:00:00.240 What's it been, like 30 days, maybe more, since the Prime Minister was hanging around at the House of Commons?

00:00:05.700 Well, today, the House sits again, and guess who was missing?

00:00:09.760 That's right, our Prime Minister, Mark Carney, was not there.

00:00:12.300 Pierre Polyev also missing, I guess still basking in the glory of his Joe Rogan experience.

00:00:17.400 However, I'll tell you what did arrive today to the House, and that was the report of the Auditor General.

00:00:22.940 Three new findings we're going to talk about today.

00:00:25.020 i don't understand why our leadership is not in the house of commons today

00:00:34.400 however yeah no i know mike you know and uh the honor general uh mrs hogan came out today and she

00:00:42.040 actually uh put a report out that really targeted uh the pay system for the federal government

00:00:49.360 the rcmp and of course immigration um so it's an interesting way to start you know the receding of

00:00:58.100 the house of commons and the return of the leadership um we really just jumped right

00:01:03.880 into a scandalous report that i'm sure is going to be take most of the week and monopolize

00:01:09.960 the floor and questions and in a time mike if we can put it in perspective

00:01:16.640 the world is in disarray we were how many hours this morning when i woke up i thought for sure

00:01:24.760 that trump would announce that you know he was going to pull off and and uh not start to bomb

00:01:31.180 the uh water and power plants in iran but he hadn't not until i got here did the announcement

00:01:40.400 come out that quite frankly we had five more days he was giving them five more days yep he said

00:01:45.680 talks were going well and they had started communication um the iranians quite frankly

00:01:52.640 have reported they haven't had any talks this out of tehran so tehran we have had no discussions

00:01:59.080 yes with the u.s so it's hard to know what the truth well it's pretty hard to see if there's

00:02:03.200 leadership quite frankly because we haven't seen anyone surface on the other side exactly you know

00:02:07.500 it's it's kind of like negotiating with the phantom and i think also that some of this

00:02:11.680 negotiation of course is going to go through turkey through you know different uh middle

00:02:15.740 eastern states uh and it's probably a little bit of broken telephone right now if there's

00:02:20.600 any communication at all nonetheless there was trump saying okay i'm going to give him

00:02:24.720 five more days that was worth us talking about here in canada today well yeah so you know

00:02:33.320 when i started this morning you know i said to my wife in the morning i said wow this could be

00:02:38.380 quite a historic day. She said, what do you mean? I said, well, if he goes through with what he's

00:02:43.740 planning and he does shut down the power plants, which then shuts off all the water and treatment

00:02:52.580 water treatment plants, that's going to have significant impacts on that country, which

00:02:58.060 quite frankly, is going to spiral a whole other set of events, I'm sure on their part,

00:03:02.120 which probably shuts down the middle east which then you know it has ramifications for the u.s for

00:03:08.900 sure because the ai centers and the funding of you know the the different states of all the american

00:03:15.860 high-tech uh ai centers and everything else going on so that would take the nasdaq and throw it just

00:03:21.500 into the toilet which then would spiral the stock exchange crumbling down um and you'd see you saw

00:03:28.680 actually this morning so everything was kind of dropping down we saw a decrease you know

00:03:32.840 it opened very uh quietly the european markets were free falling actually the asian markets

00:03:38.960 were free falling and then all of a sudden announcement came five days boom the dow i just

00:03:44.440 looked at the dow before we got on the show up a thousand points right that's insane like

00:03:48.580 wow that's the that's the twist that these announcements are making uh you know oil down

00:03:55.220 twenty dollars a barrel it's just like a yo-yo it's just up and down up and down and in the

00:04:01.220 midst of this potentially cataclysmic event we decide to focus on the uh auditor general report

00:04:10.400 of canada i mean it's a doozy for sure oh it is but it definitely is um a great distraction for

00:04:18.480 the house and for our leadership to not have to show up and say okay there are problems we do

00:04:24.240 understand here's our play on it here's how we're going to handle the economy while we're doing it

00:04:28.320 here's how we're going to handle commodities and oil prices we all needed that today desperately

00:04:33.860 i think oh yeah i did i did i got up you know and like i said i was having the conversation

00:04:38.420 at breakfast go wow this could be a pretty interesting day by the end of it it'd be nice

00:04:42.680 to see that the government's in the house again it'd be great for them to talk about a contingency

00:04:46.920 plan some some things that we're going to do if certain things happen it'd be nice to know there's

00:04:52.340 a plan but instead of not you know we didn't get that plan what we did get well let's go through

00:04:57.460 what we got from it because it's very interesting so the first thing we got was the the report on

00:05:02.940 the modernizing of the pay system the phoenix to day force right yeah which is very interesting

00:05:09.720 and it really told us that this is a billion dollar system well it's a multi-billion dollar

00:05:14.900 what are they 4.2 billion dollars in on it yeah for a pay system wow so and the ongoing

00:05:22.460 customization costs are turning out to be this has been going on for a decade 4 million a year

00:05:28.900 wow so they're they you know they bought the system and they're paying an additional 4 million

00:05:34.920 a year just to keep customizing it right now they have why do they need to keep customizing it is

00:05:39.960 a question i've got to ask i don't know what do you do what is changing so dramatically that we

00:05:44.300 need to customize a payment system to to not even a canadian company it turned out to be an

00:05:50.580 international company it was a middle eastern company was it not it is uh owned primarily by

00:05:56.240 the abu dhabi uh investment group uh yeah so and and right now we have 233 000

00:06:05.080 pay transactions still

00:06:07.120 backlogged with errors

00:06:08.640 and there's

00:06:11.380 103,000

00:06:12.600 employees affected by these errors

00:06:14.800 which still haven't been resolved so this system

00:06:17.260 it doesn't look like it's getting better

00:06:19.040 you know it transacts

00:06:21.600 it's about 38 billion

00:06:23.560 annually so it does a lot of

00:06:25.480 payroll so it's a big system

00:06:27.360 I get it but

00:06:28.320 this seems to be kind of crazy

00:06:31.540 again we have an

00:06:32.860 unmanageable government contract that just keeps riding along year after year this is one of the

00:06:41.000 things i noticed in the report uh there's no clear measurement of future cost savings in other words

00:06:47.180 why did we do this in the first place it was an archaic pay system we switched okay but there's

00:06:53.580 no there's no there's no real measure on us getting a cost savings over time with this that's

00:07:01.060 never been addressed and uh yeah these ongoing customization costs of four million dollars a

00:07:07.100 year how much customization could we possibly be doing okay so here's the thing if they don't fix

00:07:16.180 this the loss of revenues to the government are significant the errors that are occurring with

00:07:22.680 employment employees is causing backlash yep we're kind of stuck in this position which i think is

00:07:28.920 what the auditor general is really indicating to us this one is a caught this is what we're soaking

00:07:34.580 in this one and there's no way for us to climb out of it we just have to keep moving through it

00:07:39.480 yeah you know you got to love her because she's she has such a nice easygoing temperament yeah 0.77

00:07:44.320 she you know you do believe her she's got it she's very honest and straightforward you know

00:07:49.660 and you listen to her she just lays it out she doesn't you know she doesn't seem to have a stake

00:07:53.620 in any game just you know here's what we found and here's where we are so so the next one which

00:07:59.920 is this one is very interesting because the rcmp has been all over the news mostly since last late

00:08:06.420 last week about uh india's interference in canada oh there wasn't any paul there wasn't any and quite

00:08:13.500 frankly i know there's a lot of mainstream media keep kind of spiraling around this one

00:08:18.220 And we heard about it on, I think, Sunday when the head of the RSMP was actually interviewed and they said to him, well, what about the shortfall that's coming out in the Auditor General Report?

00:08:30.300 And he kind of talked around it and didn't say much about it.

00:08:33.380 Well, it came out today and they're over 3,400 officers short now.

00:08:38.800 So they tried to hire up something like 12,000 officers, and they're 3,400 short.

00:08:47.400 You know, I don't know.

00:08:48.680 It's taking 330 days to recruit each person, and the cost to recruit them is $247,000 a person.

00:08:57.880 By the time a recruit is ready to hit the streets or take a department there, just to recruit them was $274,000 and get them through training.

00:09:07.200 Yeah.

00:09:07.600 that's a remarkable number and we need 3,400 of them and what we discovered is

00:09:13.320 none have been processed against that 3,400 so we haven't even met that mark yet and now we've

00:09:21.480 got to hire 3,400 more at 330 days and almost $300,000 per yeah yeah it's a lot of well and

00:09:31.340 unfortunately big gaps across Canada right now where people are needed and and we've identified

00:09:37.240 This has been identified since 2023.

00:09:40.120 Yeah, this was.

00:09:40.740 This is an ongoing problem coming out of COVID, was identified.

00:09:44.320 There's been multiple plans put in place to actually rectify this.

00:09:47.960 They had a pretty massive attrition group at the same time,

00:09:50.580 so they had to replace a lot of officers.

00:09:52.640 An aging group, retirements, everything else.

00:09:54.840 It still hasn't been corrected.

00:09:56.080 And then finally, probably the biggest one on this list for the day,

00:10:01.340 which I think just got a lot of eyebrows,

00:10:03.400 uh international student program reforms and so when they dug into it they found 153 000 students

00:10:13.120 were flagged so basically the schools came forward and said we found issues with 153 000

00:10:20.700 students that applied to be in our school they qualified or they came here they got a study

00:10:27.880 permit or a study yeah study permit uh they don't look like they're legitimate they're not attending

00:10:33.800 they're they're not attending their background they they know what they said they knew they

00:10:38.280 don't know they have no previous education whatever the reason they were only able to investigate 4

00:10:45.720 000. so so really and and then quite frankly out of the 549 000 uh students that came in 23 24

00:10:56.440 um 90 plus percent uh were approved for work permits after so after their study permits

00:11:04.460 terminated no one left almost 100 of them have stayed in the country um and the crazy one that

00:11:11.200 i thought there were a few that quite frankly were flagged to fraudulent misrepresentation

00:11:18.260 something like 800 of them yeah half of those were given a permanent residency anyway anyway so

00:11:24.680 So even though they were on the list to be investigated, they came through fraudulent means, they were identified, they were linked, and still they made it through to Pierre.

00:11:36.280 So that was the kind of the craziest one.

00:11:38.660 You know, I got to tell you, Karen Hogan is, I said this to you before, she's kind of my hero.

00:11:45.420 And like you say, she just delivers it in such a, well, it's a fact, it's a fact, it's a fact.

00:11:50.300 Here's what we found.

00:11:51.380 There doesn't feel like a lot of cover up.

00:11:53.300 that leaves me to think okay why put her in today well it's a big distraction it puts everybody up

00:12:04.300 on their heels like they're actually doing something yeah when real reality is it's a

00:12:09.440 report that not much will be done about the report itself hopefully changes will be made department

00:12:14.760 by department three ministers quite frankly get put up today uh lena dieb uh gary from uh immigration

00:12:23.620 I can't think of the other gentleman on the contract,

00:12:26.500 but they get put up in front of the media today.

00:12:29.320 They're probably going to get shuffled anyways for the most part.

00:12:32.980 I agree with that.

00:12:33.520 I think that they're getting their sacrificial lambs.

00:12:35.600 It doesn't matter.

00:12:36.560 They're about to get new portfolios.

00:12:39.120 Our Minister of Safety, I don't think,

00:12:41.800 is going to stay in that post much longer,

00:12:43.740 especially after this RCMP report comes out.

00:12:46.940 uh and so yeah it's an easy way to fill a day with the report from the principal coming in

00:12:55.420 and that's what it felt like everybody's back to school we're going to start the day off

00:12:59.160 with some bad news but our star students don't have to be here exactly mike and you know it's

00:13:04.520 interesting because the government and i think the prime minister have really struggled with

00:13:10.640 with this iranian issue with the war and uh they continue to struggle with it they today when they

00:13:17.620 or last night when they heard that the trump had given them 48 hours to respond to the power plant

00:13:25.120 shutoffs and the water treatment centers they probably thought oh boy i don't really want to

00:13:30.820 be on the front line today right this is one i've kind of messed up i needed to i need a little bit

00:13:35.160 of time so probably if i'm doing the agenda i put it forefront you know i put my stuff in the back

00:13:41.200 and i probably sit and wait for the day now it's interesting so that didn't happen he's given them

00:13:46.840 five more days i think that this was a time killer for 24 hours but now we've got five days to kill

00:13:52.180 so what's your next move so at some point you have to come back at some point you have to

00:13:58.040 answer some questions and i think what you know and i continue to say it on most shows we do

00:14:03.900 what we're looking for now is a plan yeah so you know take us through the contingency plan

00:14:10.340 what are we going to do you know we we will gas you know we sit there every day and we say well

00:14:15.180 gas is going up this is appearing to be a very long drawn out war could well be this isn't

00:14:22.220 something i think that's going to go on you know for as trump said one month this is something

00:14:27.860 that's going to go on for months and i mentioned it again to you recently in 1973 the embargo went

00:14:35.360 on for six months it decimated the economy so it looks like the outcome of where we're going

00:14:39.860 is pretty close so this looks like something that's going to be months not even more i think

00:14:45.160 even more impactful based on population size what's required from us in the way of fossil fuels now

00:14:52.040 yeah yeah we're talking and then to top it off it does not line up nicely against our liberal

00:14:58.300 government who has so adamantly kept us out of the carbon game when right now i mean being uh

00:15:05.400 we're middled yeah we just got middled we did get middled we got middled we didn't get into ev and

00:15:12.340 we didn't go further into gas and be honest with you we didn't achieve net zero anyway no well we

00:15:19.440 we've made some headway quite frankly you know we have yeah but net zero means the rest of the world

00:15:24.880 the rest of the world and they're never going to no and so we've we've put us you're right we got

00:15:30.240 middled yeah we don't have any place to sell our product at the moment we can't even sell it to

00:15:35.360 ourselves and this i think is a hard day to be the prime minister when you stand in front of

00:15:41.120 your country and say oil prices through the roof the economy in in the dumpster and our biggest

00:15:48.160 trading partner hates us with tariffs and is about to go is in the midst of a war so that's

00:15:55.520 a terrifying moment to be the prime minister when everybody says well we have all the natural

00:15:59.820 resources we have all the fuel that we need all the oil that we need we can be trading on the

00:16:04.880 open market with it but remember in 1973 we similar situation but what did we do when we

00:16:11.280 came through the embargoes and we made it through we sat down and we nationalized our our gas yeah

00:16:17.460 and so we petro canada we created petro canada to deal with something and it took us almost 10

00:16:23.040 years to kind of get it up and running until 1980 a little less than 10 years we got it up and

00:16:28.000 running we actually bought a few companies we you know we we bought gas stations we we figured our

00:16:34.060 own uh you know downstream upstream uh processing capabilities we got that online and thank god we

00:16:42.300 still got that huh paul yeah no no we don't have it anymore we sold it off but oh okay but

00:16:47.260 yeah you know like but but these are you know whether whether we're talking about uh oil you

00:16:54.940 know gas prices whatever whether we're talking about military and defense like this is where

00:17:01.020 the plan has to come now the rubber has to hit the road yeah because we are dancing on the head of a

00:17:06.220 pin you know you you look at the indicators from today right away you know this morning it looks

00:17:12.540 like the markets are going to crash out yeah you know if this morning was any i mean i think that's

00:17:19.500 why trump stood up and said okay well gave this line that we're in negotiation even though iran

00:17:24.940 it's like we are i don't know uh he had a desperate moment this morning well i think in my you know

00:17:31.580 paul's opinion on this one i think you know what happened to him is he likes he likes to play these

00:17:37.340 games so he over the weekend okay 48 hours he is 48 hours so with satellites and everyone watching

00:17:44.860 the military right now i think he got to the morning and he realized he's got to go into action

00:17:49.740 so it's you know it's a it's a big military machine the the u.s uh you know uh navy and

00:17:58.140 everyone right now it's it's a big clunky machine so it's not easy and that's one of their challenges

00:18:04.300 they're not nimble so when they go into action they have to prep and so you see them prepping

00:18:09.980 so he would have to give the order to go and start getting ready so that would have to start

00:18:14.460 to go into motion and i think he was he's sitting there and he's thinking i don't know if i can do

00:18:20.060 that i was hoping they would come to the table so then of course you know he delays um waiting to

00:18:25.740 see what happened now you know quite frankly you play that bluff doesn't work out so now you're

00:18:31.500 sitting there and so now it's really what do i do next well i might have to go to ground at some

00:18:38.480 point so now which is a tough pill for americans to swallow they don't want more they don't want

00:18:43.960 to repeat of what happened in iraq they don't want to repeat of what happened in afghanistan they

00:18:49.520 they don't want that they don't have a big enough military right now they don't have enough people

00:18:54.240 i think that this is an understated thing yeah the u.s does not have enough people to fight

00:18:59.540 in iran they have a hundred million people almost

00:19:03.460 so that's a large country to invade oh it is well and the you know all told with reserves and

00:19:11.440 consultants everything the u.s military is what a million people maybe a little more now that's

00:19:15.700 that's not and troops on the ground ready to go but that covers that you remember that covers

00:19:21.120 the whole world so true you know all the bases they have so as they pull people towards this

00:19:27.240 war this conflict they need to backfill so at some point and they're not having you know

00:19:32.900 recruitment is so so there's a lot of people who aren't you know really into this war the u.s is

00:19:39.320 not oh look i'm happy to say it if this goes on if this becomes a protracted war trump has to go

00:19:46.380 back to congress and ask them to get people 18 to 25 registering for the draft right now he needs

00:19:54.400 to get 200 billion more because the cost cash yeah he needs cash because he i don't think

00:19:59.700 congress wants to give him that but what are you gonna do you can't stop and pull out because if

00:20:04.960 you stop and pull out basically iran takes the region and if iran takes the region then quite

00:20:11.660 frankly you've taken massive steps backwards massive steps then at that point you have to

00:20:17.540 kind of minimize yourself come back and protect you know after your oil after your trillion dollars

00:20:23.300 worth of military uh ordinance into your battle right so you almost have to keep going forward

00:20:30.840 the iranians don't want to talk to him and don't want to negotiate with him then he's

00:20:35.560 got to still move forward so the delay of today is only the delay you know we can we can sit and

00:20:42.500 watch out but and see what happens but we need a plan what do you think carney does with the rest

00:20:47.560 of the week i i think he's at some point runs out of you know issues you know listen anyone who

00:20:55.740 lives here knows we we had immigration challenges student you know we had unfortunate bad student

00:21:02.400 immigration you know policies it didn't help the students that came it didn't help canadian

00:21:08.980 canada it hasn't helped so we know that the rcmp i think we haven't heard much about great frank

00:21:14.400 So it's no big surprise.

00:21:16.400 Most people have kind of, you know, they see the RCMP and the musical ride and a few other times.

00:21:22.840 I also don't think this is the scandal that will be interesting with the RCMP.

00:21:28.920 The more that you hear about the RCMP, the less it sounds like it's being operated with any sort of, you know, quality at this moment.

00:21:38.720 Certainly over the years, it's diminished.

00:21:40.660 There's a lot of focus on what's going on in that force.

00:21:43.180 there's a huge shortage of it but i think that might be for another day in a different topic

00:21:48.700 not necessarily how they're recruiting although it is a very serious thing

00:21:52.260 i think that there's other issues there that the auditor general will eventually get to

00:21:57.340 yeah well and you know i hope they resurrected to tell you the truth you know and it was a program

00:22:02.700 we were all proud of as canadians for many many years quite frankly and we talked about it we you

00:22:08.360 know that they did amazing things so you know i think unfortunately it's times like these where

00:22:15.180 issues such as the rcmp do need to get rectified because if we get pulled into some conflict or

00:22:22.400 war in some shape or form that causes us to restructure who we are as canadians as and as

00:22:28.620 canada so so that will probably federal officers make good sense at that point yeah exactly so so

00:22:35.060 there is you know issues to be dealt with at that time but the big issue is you know you might get

00:22:40.960 this these issues may be talked about for the next day or two yeah you still have a few more days in

00:22:47.340 the week right that's what i'm thinking and so at some point you know someone's going to stand up

00:22:51.380 and say what's our plan yeah you know let's face the music on this one and tell us what we're going

00:22:56.700 to do our military is not ready to provide necessarily in that action we can't provide

00:23:02.000 oil to the world you know was it christoph earlier who said we could take them water

00:23:08.480 somebody mentioned we've got water yeah but you know really we have nothing to offer

00:23:15.160 in that scenario at the moment so maybe that's a good reason to be quiet

00:23:22.240 but we also are going to take on humanitarian support we always do we're going to take on

00:23:27.700 more immigration we always do when these people are displaced from iran they will show up on our 1.00

00:23:32.580 doorstep we will likely welcome them with open arms more asylum more costs like really we need 0.99

00:23:40.880 to have a discussion i think you're right we need our prime minister to say to us all right i

00:23:45.940 understand the situation here's where we're at at the moment here's what we're going to do with

00:23:49.880 our military here's how we're going to shore things up at home and here's how we're keeping

00:23:53.260 our economy somewhat balanced well that's the big thing right what are what are we going to do

00:23:59.140 you know if the economy spins out of control if the u.s is sort of decimated by all these events

00:24:05.640 where do we stand and how do we not keep out of it we'll be dragged into it from an economic

00:24:11.700 downturn but how do we survive how what industries do we focus on what is industries do we still

00:24:20.140 produce how do we band together to keep our fuel prices we're not gonna be fine but we need

00:24:25.180 direction yeah well in in in times of war and in times of challenges the government needs to figure

00:24:32.380 out which industries to key on that's that's really what that makes perfect sense now we

00:24:36.860 haven't lived in our lifetime this is an interesting time because this is something

00:24:40.700 we haven't lived through and most of us quite frankly wouldn't even know how to do it this is

00:24:45.900 wartime preparation right now it's really it's a contingency plan for wartime it really is and

00:24:52.760 and depression and hard times it's really that's the plan we need to to start talking about and

00:24:59.260 the what if scenarios if that does happen do you know why it feels i think a little closer to us

00:25:03.560 at the moment is because our relationship is strained with the u.s and historically

00:25:06.940 we just rely on the u.s to fight their battles and i guess let us know what they need having

00:25:12.760 said that this time we have a strange relationship if we can't provide what they need in a time of

00:25:17.480 war where does that leave us with trump with the u.s government oh i don't even want to think mike

00:25:24.540 you know it's a hard one it's a hard one yeah that's the moment we're at right now well it is

00:25:29.200 and that that's you know the supply chains and it goes to everything it goes to from food yeah

00:25:35.580 food to medical supplies uh you know everything that we rely on think about your daily life

00:25:42.500 and go through and figure out where it comes from and where you get it all those supply chains will

00:25:47.520 be broken in some shape or form oh if trump says to canada you have to stay if it extends itself

00:25:54.320 to the point where china involves themselves which is in my opinion unlikely they're very 0.75

00:25:58.680 autonomous and they they like to do their own thing but if because of strained relationships

00:26:04.860 between china and south korea become inflamed this could become part of the if we're told them

00:26:11.480 by trump okay no more supply chain interaction with china we're doomed yeah it's a challenge

00:26:18.300 well and again you know go go take a look at your store shelves go take a look so all the things

00:26:24.220 that you think that you're going to potentially be impacted by that come from abroad that we

00:26:29.280 import in you have to assume that they're going to be impacted yeah whether timing or just

00:26:34.440 eliminated so therefore we would have to go replace all those things and then it comes down

00:26:39.440 our exporting our exporting basically disappears yeah so you know you you know car companies

00:26:47.020 switch to doing armored vehicles uh you know uh plane building companies build you know war planes

00:26:54.580 and you know ship building warships all those transition over so you're not doing you know

00:27:00.940 leisure vehicles leisure boats leisure planes you're shifting off into start to produce different

00:27:06.740 things so all our sectors you know it's interesting on the weekend we made an announcement i think and

00:27:12.660 it was no one really said much it was very quiet i know we're going to talk about this week we put

00:27:18.900 200 million in quietly over the weekend we made a very uh quiet announcement about it into uh

00:27:26.580 a space advancement space technology yeah with nord space and on the atlantic in atlantic canada

00:27:33.780 and we made the move to move towards that not really saying why so we just kind of said we're

00:27:39.540 going to put some satellites for defensive and research purposes into the air and that's what

00:27:45.940 we're doing we have we're they're building a competing launch okay maybe i'm i'm look i'm no

00:27:51.700 scientist i think you know this but they're putting a uh a hundred million dollar launch pad

00:27:58.980 in nova scotia uh interesting most of the launch pads you see around the world try to stay near the

00:28:06.180 equator i don't know what this would do this different yeah but 100 million dollars and

00:28:11.300 really what does that do it puts us in a position to launch not our technology but likely the

00:28:16.420 technology of other countries and in fact this program is a partnership with the government of

00:28:22.100 ukraine yeah yeah i found that very interesting very quiet announcement yeah we're moving towards

00:28:27.540 it but you know again if that's a strategic move you know tell us you know we're doing it for

00:28:33.540 potential for security we're putting some satellites once again carny not the best at

00:28:37.940 explaining to us what he's doing i know but we're we're you know we're running out of i guess uh

00:28:44.660 hopefully we're not running out of time i guess patience at some point you know the public's

00:28:49.620 going to be saying okay i need a plan here yeah right the public's starting to and you hear the

00:28:53.860 rumblings like people are like okay what's the plan come on we got it this weekend when you guys

00:29:00.540 went over 170 171 172 everybody was thinking oh do we have a plan yeah yeah well it's going to

00:29:08.880 endemic tag now is saying two dollars remember we said that at the beginning so it's going up to two

00:29:13.180 dollars starting you know everyone you know they're doing the interviews in the morning you know when

00:29:17.400 you're getting up in the morning yeah how do you feel about you know i just put 40 more dollars in

00:29:21.960 my tank this week you know so now everyone's you know another hundred bucks out right they know

00:29:26.320 it's going and and yeah they're starting to ask the question what is the long-term plan

00:29:30.340 and how do we get it aren't we aren't we uh an oil uh exporter yeah we are exporter but we also

00:29:39.020 buy it we also well we export it at a discount we buy it back at a premium yeah so you know it's not

00:29:46.340 of any benefit to us the measurement or pricing of of gas is based on a north american benchmark

00:29:53.060 so that really doesn't have anything to do with us it leaves here and comes back at the world

00:29:58.320 global impacted price that blows my mind in itself that we everything seems measured up

00:30:04.400 against opec meanwhile we're we're measured against the production of texas tea yeah yeah

00:30:11.880 and we take a significant discount because of our heavy crude right yes so that doesn't even help us

00:30:16.760 quite frankly coming back but you know it's the interesting part is we're we thought you know and

00:30:22.840 we were really brazen about it we're gonna you know we're gonna reduce our carbon footprint

00:30:27.400 we're going to electric we're gonna spend billions of dollars getting plants up and running

00:30:32.440 we never did no we we just we got halfway there we told our auto industry you know you guys gonna

00:30:39.000 convert we're all going to be driving electric cars by 2030 now in comes trump and he says i

00:30:45.160 want my auto plants back you know you can do whatever you want with your electric cars

00:30:51.400 and quite frankly we we stopped our r d on gas because you know a lot of american companies

00:30:59.960 left and sold their interest interested in smaller canadian companies and quite frankly

00:31:06.120 our canadian companies are just making money until ev was coming so they were just laying it out

00:31:12.280 it's good income for 10 years assuming that a lot of those laid a lot of those guys standing around

00:31:17.280 saying we're never getting there just we're just going to hang here we're never getting there

00:31:20.340 anyway so just our our day will come back but but quite frankly you're not you're not putting any

00:31:26.180 r&d you're not doing pipelines you know you're you're trying to make uh and they've done a good

00:31:31.220 job you know the sort of reducing their carbon footprint through admissions they've figured out

00:31:37.100 ways to actually reduce admissions on their pipelines and through pipelines you know and

00:31:42.220 pushing it in and storing it in the ground they've done significant uh you know technological

00:31:48.180 advancements on that it's true paul you know we i don't very often certainly on these shows i don't

00:31:52.840 very often talk about that but one thing net zero did do is it made us leaders in doing this

00:31:59.160 extraction oh yeah carbon supply and and yeah yeah carbon supply we did a carbon storage supply we

00:32:05.320 did an amazing job at it we don't talk about it a lot quite frankly and you know most of the rest

00:32:10.260 of the world doesn't do it we did it so we spent billions of dollars to create these storage supply

00:32:16.460 mechanisms to actually push it into the earth you know liquefy it and store it in the have it

00:32:23.140 absorbed into the rock it's um okay so i have a question for you at this point we we see the

00:32:31.720 prime minister day one day two maybe tomorrow we see him we you know maybe poly is back in there

00:32:38.020 do they start arguing about canadian issues i mean i'll take the bet on this one oh yeah i think it's

00:32:44.780 all canadian issues i don't think that we even mentioned for the first couple of days that

00:32:49.980 there's even anything going on in iran and it's disturbing to me to no end like we have no

00:32:55.000 involvement we have no opinion anything a day or so on these issues that came up today

00:33:01.220 quite frankly they're going to respond then we get to affordability yeah it's not until

00:33:08.580 the sad part is it won't be until and hopefully there is a peace agreement or something comes in

00:33:16.640 between and maybe one of these trump uh you know bluffs where he bluffs 48 hours and maybe they

00:33:24.200 work at some point maybe they you know he pulls a rabbit out of a hat uh cooler heads prevail

00:33:29.960 hopefully but you know mike if you think about the circumstance and and you know just looking at

00:33:35.520 it from a from a religious perspective you know um and looking at it from the fact that they they

00:33:42.200 did eliminate most of the leadership and their families there's got to be a high degree of

00:33:47.300 animosity out there right now anybody left in support of that government is uh yeah yeah pretty

00:33:57.000 heavily incentivized right now you know to to react in in in that war and and quite frankly

00:34:04.800 they they've managed you know they got through the initial shock you know the initial wave of

00:34:09.760 bombs and everything and now they're kind of getting comfortable and they're like oh that

00:34:14.220 wasn't so bad yeah and iran just launched a massive reach missile i think it has a capacity

00:34:21.640 of 8 000 kilometers yeah well it's interesting i don't know about you but i woke up over on sunday

00:34:27.160 turned on the tv was moving around doing my chores and all of a sudden i started seeing

00:34:31.700 these concentric rings show up on the tv and i'm thinking what the heck is that and i'm looking

00:34:37.240 and i'm thinking okay this is the reach of these uh long-range missiles that are now able to hit

00:34:44.200 france able hit the uk you know they're all and i'm like okay i didn't that was never talked about

00:34:50.120 so now that's on the table so now all these things are kind of coming into play

00:34:54.680 i know and how much how much of that is real and how much is you know just trying to get them to

00:35:00.040 join the fray i don't know but quite frankly it does scare me when i look at it because now

00:35:05.720 that changes the whole dynamics of of the war uh and certainly we'll play europe up this morning

00:35:11.880 oh yeah yeah it did and now quite frankly they were sitting on i'm sure they were sitting on

00:35:17.800 pins and needles this 48 hours thing and i'm sure they were making calls don't you push don't you

00:35:23.880 push yeah i can see it now yeah oh yeah you you go you know you go at 11 o'clock you know and they

00:35:31.240 they let one of those missiles go and it hits us and we can't knock it down you and i are at war

00:35:36.040 well yeah we have a problem we've got a problem yeah we've got a problem so you know that was

00:35:40.260 caught there a bit though that all of a sudden nato and everyone's talking and that was causing

00:35:45.120 some anxiety that's why i do believe that iran has not had any uh sort of talks with the u.s

00:35:50.760 because they do have sort of the upper hand at the moment saying hey we can land one of these

00:35:56.060 anywhere you want in europe any of your allies in europe can take one of these in the mouth right

00:36:00.440 now that probably changed his attitude oh yeah i think so i think he you know he but now the thing

00:36:06.760 is where do you go next i don't see what the next move is that's what concerns me the most but you

00:36:12.420 can't sit still you got to put boots on the ground maybe you can't sit still no i i don't understand

00:36:17.660 what i think it was ill-advised to do this i have to say i think maybe trump only read part of the

00:36:24.880 email that was sent to him before this went on i don't understand but for certain iran has more

00:36:31.460 in the canon than anybody well i think certainly than the u.s military thought or trump

00:36:37.160 because they just poise every day they poise every day to get back to it he doesn't back out which i

00:36:44.200 don't think he can he's got to go forward which i then then will impact us and i think that's the

00:36:50.380 thing we need to start thinking about yeah it really comes forget you know the contingency we

00:36:55.960 need plan a b and c of what we do when certain things happen from there we can actually uh and

00:37:03.520 i'm not saying we need all the gory details we just need what happens to our food supplies what

00:37:09.860 happens to our gas we need to start having those conversations and what are our backup strategies

00:37:15.220 you know what do we do you know uh you know i was looking today and it's funny after the uh

00:37:22.060 announcement the auto general stepped down the block to quebec walk stepped up right and it's

00:37:27.120 very interesting the first thing they talked about was separation again well can i tell you

00:37:32.860 something we have alberta and quebec now not very happy yeah let's be serious uh alberta of course

00:37:40.600 oil so there's they're they're gaining some strength now in that discussion oh absolutely

00:37:46.800 and quebec hydro i was going to say we have one of the other major energy source comes right out

00:37:52.360 of quebec and and quite frankly if all the infrastructure in the middle east goes down

00:37:58.100 a lot of support and a lot of money that was going towards all the ai centers in america

00:38:04.500 are impacted. They're going to be looking for sources of power, right? Now we do have a card

00:38:11.160 there. Again, our nuclear power is very advanced. We've done a good job. We have a high content of

00:38:19.100 uranium and quantity. So we do have some cards we can play. But again, those are the strategic

00:38:25.880 things we should be talking about now and talking to it about Canadians. These are industries that

00:38:30.140 we're you know we're going to shift you know a third of our population into this and uh you know

00:38:35.520 a tenth of our population these are industries that we have to do and with that we can actually

00:38:39.940 you know supply the following to the western hemisphere and how are we going to do that and

00:38:45.260 how are we going to work within that well you're right we need to find our play in there yes i

00:38:48.860 mean if the western hemisphere is what the final frontier is for us well for the time being if

00:38:56.000 that's what this all becomes we need to find our place in that in that hemisphere now yeah because

00:39:02.520 we don't have a place we produce next to nothing we have very little military to offer very little

00:39:10.760 in the way of we have great national resources but all we do is sign off giving those away yeah

00:39:18.040 well then and no i agree with you and quite frankly that's our productivity conundrum which

00:39:22.900 talked about time and time again in different shows but in times like this we have to specialize

00:39:28.100 in different industries that will help us survive and advance as a country and maybe you know out of

00:39:34.740 all this uh uncertainty and economic strife and challenges maybe we will come through this stronger

00:39:44.020 because it will have made us focus on industries that we should have been specializing in and we

00:39:49.140 should have been focused on and maybe we you know just took it for granted i hope you're right i

00:39:56.260 hope you're right i hope this does create the refocus you see it in a few places right now

00:40:00.260 certainly over energy um at a time where we kind of need to focus really hard on what we do as a

00:40:07.060 nation i hope that we take advantage of the this moment to do that i don't know but like you said

00:40:14.420 we've we're kind of middled at the moment so we're beholden to what happens in the u.s

00:40:20.660 we'll see we'll see thanks paul thanks

00:40:30.340 patriotic means looking up for each other and fixing things together true patriotism

00:40:36.580 is being in the country you love surrounded by people you love and great weather being

00:40:41.220 a patriot is being a part of your community and caring for it it doesn't matter who you are or

00:40:45.540 where you're from patriotism is the one thing we all share it's okay to be critical of government

00:40:51.940 and still be a patriot it's gratitude to your country of course i'm a patriot i'm

00:40:56.500 I'm Canadian, it's my home.

00:40:58.380 Well, actually, true patriot love is the mission.

True Patriot Love - March 24, 2026

The Auditor General： New Revelations About The RCMP and Immigration

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