The Auditor General： New Revelations About The RCMP and Immigration
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The House of Commons is back in session, but the Prime Minister is not in the chamber today, and the Speaker of the Commons, Pierre Poirier, is still basking in the glory of his Joe Rogan experience. However, a new report from the Office of the Auditor General did arrive today to the Commons and it's a scandalous one.
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What's it been, like 30 days, maybe more, since the Prime Minister was hanging around at the House of Commons?
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Well, today, the House sits again, and guess who was missing?
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That's right, our Prime Minister, Mark Carney, was not there.
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Pierre Polyev also missing, I guess still basking in the glory of his Joe Rogan experience.
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However, I'll tell you what did arrive today to the House, and that was the report of the Auditor General.
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Three new findings we're going to talk about today.
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i don't understand why our leadership is not in the house of commons today
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however yeah no i know mike you know and uh the honor general uh mrs hogan came out today and she
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actually uh put a report out that really targeted uh the pay system for the federal government
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the rcmp and of course immigration um so it's an interesting way to start you know the receding of
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the house of commons and the return of the leadership um we really just jumped right
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into a scandalous report that i'm sure is going to be take most of the week and monopolize
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the floor and questions and in a time mike if we can put it in perspective
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the world is in disarray we were how many hours this morning when i woke up i thought for sure
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that trump would announce that you know he was going to pull off and and uh not start to bomb
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the uh water and power plants in iran but he hadn't not until i got here did the announcement
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come out that quite frankly we had five more days he was giving them five more days yep he said
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talks were going well and they had started communication um the iranians quite frankly
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have reported they haven't had any talks this out of tehran so tehran we have had no discussions
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yes with the u.s so it's hard to know what the truth well it's pretty hard to see if there's
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leadership quite frankly because we haven't seen anyone surface on the other side exactly you know
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it's it's kind of like negotiating with the phantom and i think also that some of this
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negotiation of course is going to go through turkey through you know different uh middle
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eastern states uh and it's probably a little bit of broken telephone right now if there's
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any communication at all nonetheless there was trump saying okay i'm going to give him
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five more days that was worth us talking about here in canada today well yeah so you know
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when i started this morning you know i said to my wife in the morning i said wow this could be
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quite a historic day. She said, what do you mean? I said, well, if he goes through with what he's
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planning and he does shut down the power plants, which then shuts off all the water and treatment
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water treatment plants, that's going to have significant impacts on that country, which
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quite frankly, is going to spiral a whole other set of events, I'm sure on their part,
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which probably shuts down the middle east which then you know it has ramifications for the u.s for
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sure because the ai centers and the funding of you know the the different states of all the american
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high-tech uh ai centers and everything else going on so that would take the nasdaq and throw it just
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into the toilet which then would spiral the stock exchange crumbling down um and you'd see you saw
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actually this morning so everything was kind of dropping down we saw a decrease you know
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it opened very uh quietly the european markets were free falling actually the asian markets
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were free falling and then all of a sudden announcement came five days boom the dow i just
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looked at the dow before we got on the show up a thousand points right that's insane like
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wow that's the that's the twist that these announcements are making uh you know oil down
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twenty dollars a barrel it's just like a yo-yo it's just up and down up and down and in the
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midst of this potentially cataclysmic event we decide to focus on the uh auditor general report
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of canada i mean it's a doozy for sure oh it is but it definitely is um a great distraction for
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the house and for our leadership to not have to show up and say okay there are problems we do
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understand here's our play on it here's how we're going to handle the economy while we're doing it
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here's how we're going to handle commodities and oil prices we all needed that today desperately
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i think oh yeah i did i did i got up you know and like i said i was having the conversation
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at breakfast go wow this could be a pretty interesting day by the end of it it'd be nice
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to see that the government's in the house again it'd be great for them to talk about a contingency
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plan some some things that we're going to do if certain things happen it'd be nice to know there's
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a plan but instead of not you know we didn't get that plan what we did get well let's go through
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what we got from it because it's very interesting so the first thing we got was the the report on
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the modernizing of the pay system the phoenix to day force right yeah which is very interesting
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and it really told us that this is a billion dollar system well it's a multi-billion dollar
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what are they 4.2 billion dollars in on it yeah for a pay system wow so and the ongoing
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customization costs are turning out to be this has been going on for a decade 4 million a year
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wow so they're they you know they bought the system and they're paying an additional 4 million
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a year just to keep customizing it right now they have why do they need to keep customizing it is
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a question i've got to ask i don't know what do you do what is changing so dramatically that we
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need to customize a payment system to to not even a canadian company it turned out to be an
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international company it was a middle eastern company was it not it is uh owned primarily by
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the abu dhabi uh investment group uh yeah so and and right now we have 233 000
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which still haven't been resolved so this system
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unmanageable government contract that just keeps riding along year after year this is one of the
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things i noticed in the report uh there's no clear measurement of future cost savings in other words
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why did we do this in the first place it was an archaic pay system we switched okay but there's
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no there's no there's no real measure on us getting a cost savings over time with this that's
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never been addressed and uh yeah these ongoing customization costs of four million dollars a
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year how much customization could we possibly be doing okay so here's the thing if they don't fix
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this the loss of revenues to the government are significant the errors that are occurring with
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employment employees is causing backlash yep we're kind of stuck in this position which i think is
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what the auditor general is really indicating to us this one is a caught this is what we're soaking
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in this one and there's no way for us to climb out of it we just have to keep moving through it
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yeah you know you got to love her because she's she has such a nice easygoing temperament yeah
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she you know you do believe her she's got it she's very honest and straightforward you know
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and you listen to her she just lays it out she doesn't you know she doesn't seem to have a stake
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in any game just you know here's what we found and here's where we are so so the next one which
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is this one is very interesting because the rcmp has been all over the news mostly since last late
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last week about uh india's interference in canada oh there wasn't any paul there wasn't any and quite
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frankly i know there's a lot of mainstream media keep kind of spiraling around this one
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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?
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And he kind of talked around it and didn't say much about it.
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Well, it came out today and they're over 3,400 officers short now.
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So they tried to hire up something like 12,000 officers, and they're 3,400 short.
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It's taking 330 days to recruit each person, and the cost to recruit them is $247,000 a person.
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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.
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that's a remarkable number and we need 3,400 of them and what we discovered is
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none have been processed against that 3,400 so we haven't even met that mark yet and now we've
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got to hire 3,400 more at 330 days and almost $300,000 per yeah yeah it's a lot of well and
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unfortunately big gaps across Canada right now where people are needed and and we've identified
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This is an ongoing problem coming out of COVID, was identified.
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There's been multiple plans put in place to actually rectify this.
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They had a pretty massive attrition group at the same time,
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And then finally, probably the biggest one on this list for the day,
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uh international student program reforms and so when they dug into it they found 153 000 students
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were flagged so basically the schools came forward and said we found issues with 153 000
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students that applied to be in our school they qualified or they came here they got a study
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permit or a study yeah study permit uh they don't look like they're legitimate they're not attending
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they're they're not attending their background they they know what they said they knew they
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don't know they have no previous education whatever the reason they were only able to investigate 4
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000. so so really and and then quite frankly out of the 549 000 uh students that came in 23 24
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um 90 plus percent uh were approved for work permits after so after their study permits
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terminated no one left almost 100 of them have stayed in the country um and the crazy one that
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i thought there were a few that quite frankly were flagged to fraudulent misrepresentation
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something like 800 of them yeah half of those were given a permanent residency anyway anyway so
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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.
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You know, I got to tell you, Karen Hogan is, I said this to you before, she's kind of my hero.
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And like you say, she just delivers it in such a, well, it's a fact, it's a fact, it's a fact.
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that leaves me to think okay why put her in today well it's a big distraction it puts everybody up
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on their heels like they're actually doing something yeah when real reality is it's a
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report that not much will be done about the report itself hopefully changes will be made department
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by department three ministers quite frankly get put up today uh lena dieb uh gary from uh immigration
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I can't think of the other gentleman on the contract,
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but they get put up in front of the media today.
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They're probably going to get shuffled anyways for the most part.
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I think that they're getting their sacrificial lambs.
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uh and so yeah it's an easy way to fill a day with the report from the principal coming in
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and that's what it felt like everybody's back to school we're going to start the day off
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with some bad news but our star students don't have to be here exactly mike and you know it's
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interesting because the government and i think the prime minister have really struggled with
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with this iranian issue with the war and uh they continue to struggle with it they today when they
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or last night when they heard that the trump had given them 48 hours to respond to the power plant
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shutoffs and the water treatment centers they probably thought oh boy i don't really want to
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be on the front line today right this is one i've kind of messed up i needed to i need a little bit
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of time so probably if i'm doing the agenda i put it forefront you know i put my stuff in the back
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and i probably sit and wait for the day now it's interesting so that didn't happen he's given them
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five more days i think that this was a time killer for 24 hours but now we've got five days to kill
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so what's your next move so at some point you have to come back at some point you have to
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answer some questions and i think what you know and i continue to say it on most shows we do
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what we're looking for now is a plan yeah so you know take us through the contingency plan
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what are we going to do you know we we will gas you know we sit there every day and we say well
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gas is going up this is appearing to be a very long drawn out war could well be this isn't
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something i think that's going to go on you know for as trump said one month this is something
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that's going to go on for months and i mentioned it again to you recently in 1973 the embargo went
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on for six months it decimated the economy so it looks like the outcome of where we're going
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is pretty close so this looks like something that's going to be months not even more i think
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even more impactful based on population size what's required from us in the way of fossil fuels now
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yeah yeah we're talking and then to top it off it does not line up nicely against our liberal
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government who has so adamantly kept us out of the carbon game when right now i mean being uh
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we're middled yeah we just got middled we did get middled we got middled we didn't get into ev and
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we didn't go further into gas and be honest with you we didn't achieve net zero anyway no well we
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we've made some headway quite frankly you know we have yeah but net zero means the rest of the world
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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
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middled yeah we don't have any place to sell our product at the moment we can't even sell it to
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ourselves and this i think is a hard day to be the prime minister when you stand in front of
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your country and say oil prices through the roof the economy in in the dumpster and our biggest
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trading partner hates us with tariffs and is about to go is in the midst of a war so that's
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a terrifying moment to be the prime minister when everybody says well we have all the natural
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resources we have all the fuel that we need all the oil that we need we can be trading on the
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open market with it but remember in 1973 we similar situation but what did we do when we
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came through the embargoes and we made it through we sat down and we nationalized our our gas yeah
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and so we petro canada we created petro canada to deal with something and it took us almost 10
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years to kind of get it up and running until 1980 a little less than 10 years we got it up and
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running we actually bought a few companies we you know we we bought gas stations we we figured our
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own uh you know downstream upstream uh processing capabilities we got that online and thank god we
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still got that huh paul yeah no no we don't have it anymore we sold it off but oh okay but
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yeah you know like but but these are you know whether whether we're talking about uh oil you
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know gas prices whatever whether we're talking about military and defense like this is where
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the plan has to come now the rubber has to hit the road yeah because we are dancing on the head of a
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pin you know you you look at the indicators from today right away you know this morning it looks
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like the markets are going to crash out yeah you know if this morning was any i mean i think that's
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why trump stood up and said okay well gave this line that we're in negotiation even though iran
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it's like we are i don't know uh he had a desperate moment this morning well i think in my you know
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paul's opinion on this one i think you know what happened to him is he likes he likes to play these
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games so he over the weekend okay 48 hours he is 48 hours so with satellites and everyone watching
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the military right now i think he got to the morning and he realized he's got to go into action
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so it's you know it's a it's a big military machine the the u.s uh you know uh navy and
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everyone right now it's it's a big clunky machine so it's not easy and that's one of their challenges
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they're not nimble so when they go into action they have to prep and so you see them prepping
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so he would have to give the order to go and start getting ready so that would have to start
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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
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that i was hoping they would come to the table so then of course you know he delays um waiting to
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see what happened now you know quite frankly you play that bluff doesn't work out so now you're
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sitting there and so now it's really what do i do next well i might have to go to ground at some
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point so now which is a tough pill for americans to swallow they don't want more they don't want
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to repeat of what happened in iraq they don't want to repeat of what happened in afghanistan they
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they don't want that they don't have a big enough military right now they don't have enough people
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i think that this is an understated thing yeah the u.s does not have enough people to fight
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in iran they have a hundred million people almost
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so that's a large country to invade oh it is well and the you know all told with reserves and
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consultants everything the u.s military is what a million people maybe a little more now that's
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that's not and troops on the ground ready to go but that covers that you remember that covers
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the whole world so true you know all the bases they have so as they pull people towards this
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war this conflict they need to backfill so at some point and they're not having you know
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recruitment is so so there's a lot of people who aren't you know really into this war the u.s is
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not oh look i'm happy to say it if this goes on if this becomes a protracted war trump has to go
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back to congress and ask them to get people 18 to 25 registering for the draft right now he needs
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to get 200 billion more because the cost cash yeah he needs cash because he i don't think
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congress wants to give him that but what are you gonna do you can't stop and pull out because if
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you stop and pull out basically iran takes the region and if iran takes the region then quite
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frankly you've taken massive steps backwards massive steps then at that point you have to
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kind of minimize yourself come back and protect you know after your oil after your trillion dollars
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worth of military uh ordinance into your battle right so you almost have to keep going forward
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the iranians don't want to talk to him and don't want to negotiate with him then he's
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got to still move forward so the delay of today is only the delay you know we can we can sit and
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watch out but and see what happens but we need a plan what do you think carney does with the rest
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of the week i i think he's at some point runs out of you know issues you know listen anyone who
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lives here knows we we had immigration challenges student you know we had unfortunate bad student
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immigration you know policies it didn't help the students that came it didn't help canadian
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canada it hasn't helped so we know that the rcmp i think we haven't heard much about great frank
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Most people have kind of, you know, they see the RCMP and the musical ride and a few other times.
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I also don't think this is the scandal that will be interesting with the RCMP.
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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.
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There's a lot of focus on what's going on in that force.
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there's a huge shortage of it but i think that might be for another day in a different topic
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not necessarily how they're recruiting although it is a very serious thing
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i think that there's other issues there that the auditor general will eventually get to
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yeah well and you know i hope they resurrected to tell you the truth you know and it was a program
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we were all proud of as canadians for many many years quite frankly and we talked about it we you
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know that they did amazing things so you know i think unfortunately it's times like these where
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issues such as the rcmp do need to get rectified because if we get pulled into some conflict or
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war in some shape or form that causes us to restructure who we are as canadians as and as
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canada so so that will probably federal officers make good sense at that point yeah exactly so so
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there is you know issues to be dealt with at that time but the big issue is you know you might get
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this these issues may be talked about for the next day or two yeah you still have a few more days in
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the week right that's what i'm thinking and so at some point you know someone's going to stand up
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and say what's our plan yeah you know let's face the music on this one and tell us what we're going
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to do our military is not ready to provide necessarily in that action we can't provide
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oil to the world you know was it christoph earlier who said we could take them water
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somebody mentioned we've got water yeah but you know really we have nothing to offer
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in that scenario at the moment so maybe that's a good reason to be quiet
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but we also are going to take on humanitarian support we always do we're going to take on
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more immigration we always do when these people are displaced from iran they will show up on our
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doorstep we will likely welcome them with open arms more asylum more costs like really we need
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to have a discussion i think you're right we need our prime minister to say to us all right i
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understand the situation here's where we're at at the moment here's what we're going to do with
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our military here's how we're going to shore things up at home and here's how we're keeping
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our economy somewhat balanced well that's the big thing right what are what are we going to do
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you know if the economy spins out of control if the u.s is sort of decimated by all these events
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where do we stand and how do we not keep out of it we'll be dragged into it from an economic
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downturn but how do we survive how what industries do we focus on what is industries do we still
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produce how do we band together to keep our fuel prices we're not gonna be fine but we need
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direction yeah well in in in times of war and in times of challenges the government needs to figure
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out which industries to key on that's that's really what that makes perfect sense now we
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haven't lived in our lifetime this is an interesting time because this is something
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we haven't lived through and most of us quite frankly wouldn't even know how to do it this is
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wartime preparation right now it's really it's a contingency plan for wartime it really is and
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and depression and hard times it's really that's the plan we need to to start talking about and
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the what if scenarios if that does happen do you know why it feels i think a little closer to us
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at the moment is because our relationship is strained with the u.s and historically
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we just rely on the u.s to fight their battles and i guess let us know what they need having
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said that this time we have a strange relationship if we can't provide what they need in a time of
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war where does that leave us with trump with the u.s government oh i don't even want to think mike
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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
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and that that's you know the supply chains and it goes to everything it goes to from food yeah
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food to medical supplies uh you know everything that we rely on think about your daily life
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and go through and figure out where it comes from and where you get it all those supply chains will
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be broken in some shape or form oh if trump says to canada you have to stay if it extends itself
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to the point where china involves themselves which is in my opinion unlikely they're very
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autonomous and they they like to do their own thing but if because of strained relationships
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between china and south korea become inflamed this could become part of the if we're told them
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by trump okay no more supply chain interaction with china we're doomed yeah it's a challenge
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well and again you know go go take a look at your store shelves go take a look so all the things
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that you think that you're going to potentially be impacted by that come from abroad that we
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import in you have to assume that they're going to be impacted yeah whether timing or just
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eliminated so therefore we would have to go replace all those things and then it comes down
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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
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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
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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
00:40:30.340
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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
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00:40:58.380
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