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TPL MEDIA EXCERPT ｜ Why Are Top Mounties Afraid to Investigate Corruption？ ｜ with Garry Clement


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In this episode, we discuss the lack of leadership from senior leadership in intelligence agencies, law enforcement, the military, and government, and why they are so afraid to press charges in order to protect their own reputation. We also discuss the SNC-Lavalin affair, and the ongoing public inquiry into it.

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00:00:00.000 I know people have got filthy, stinking rich by putting on blinders. 0.96
00:00:05.980 But what about the rest of the country?
00:00:08.160 And then where I get a little upset is I hear, you know, the message coming out of government that Canadians are going to have to tighten their belt.
00:00:17.480 You know, it's going to get a little tough over the next few years.
00:00:21.120 Yeah, well, let's ask the question why that's happening and let's do something about it.
00:00:25.960 Yeah, I was sick to my stomach hearing the headlines that you just mentioned there. It's kind of reinforced with this lack of anyone in senior leadership organizations. You know what I mean? CSIS, RCMP. I worked with CSE a little bit. I can't really speak for them. They didn't really come up much in the book, if at all, if I remember correctly.
00:00:50.120 But why are the heads of these organizations so afraid to do it?
00:00:55.120 Like the SNC-Lavalin affair, for example, why is the RCMP terrified to press charges or properly investigate people who are obviously on the take, corrupt, committing probably criminal offenses, and we're just told to sort of, oh, nothing to see here, move along?
00:01:12.900 Where's this fear coming from?
00:01:15.440 Is it just they're worried about implications for their career, their bottom line?
00:01:19.960 both like where do you where do you see the disconnect i've said for a long time the the
00:01:25.340 rcmp unfortunately is tied to government um far too tight there's you know they can argue an
00:01:32.600 arm's length relationship but anybody that follows the news knows i can i can pull up a picture of
00:01:38.500 uh the former prime minister trudeau with his arm around uh the commissioner uh we know about
00:01:46.320 the former commissioner and how bill blair uh really was almost i would say almost acting
00:01:54.960 as the unofficial commissioner uh and now we've seen with the current commissioner
00:02:00.920 you know it came out in the uh press of his uh prime minister carney and the commissioner with
00:02:07.180 their arm around each other and smiling doesn't really give the impression of objectivity and if
00:02:13.340 you look at a number of the things that have occurred, what happened down on the East Coast
00:02:17.700 with the killing spree that happened down there, I don't think truth has ever fully come out on
00:02:25.880 that. But there was a huge amount of mistakes made. And I hate to say it, but there was a lot
00:02:32.780 of cover up on that. The public inquiry was just a way of, I guess, making it appear that
00:02:40.760 objectivity surfaced i don't believe it did um you know and things happen and things go south
00:02:47.900 and whether you're in the military or in police you occasionally have things go south the only
00:02:53.360 way you improve those apps is admit that mistakes were made and deal with how to improve and not
00:03:00.800 not try and brush it aside and unfortunately that's what we're doing a lot of right now in
00:03:05.240 this country yeah the um i've been harping for a couple years now about the mistakes being made
00:03:11.520 and being able to own them as a leader not just excuse me in policing or in government as well
00:03:18.700 you know i'll bring it back to something i mentioned a few times just bear with me if
00:03:22.880 anyone's heard me say this before but when when the lockdowns and everything was going on and i
00:03:26.860 was working in intelligence and then week after week month after month and lockdowns just maintained
00:03:33.220 but there was no evidence to show that they were helping.
00:03:35.760 There was actually a lot of evidence to show that they were harming.
00:03:38.720 They were doing nothing but probably also harming.
00:03:41.800 There was no point at which any of the leadership was willing to step up
00:03:44.640 and say, hey, you know what I mean?
00:03:46.540 We probably overreacted here.
00:03:48.580 We did it with what we thought was your best interest,
00:03:50.860 and now we're going to ratchet it back in 2020
00:03:53.100 because I can speak from a personal experience
00:03:56.500 sitting in high-level intelligence meetings
00:03:58.820 with the chief of defense intelligence.
00:04:01.000 and you know what i mean the people they're briefing the mnd and stuff like that at no point
00:04:05.440 was there ever going to be an attempt to ratchet things back and say hey kind of you know i mean
00:04:09.700 we overreacted and and uh i think people probably would have been pretty forgiving if that was the
00:04:14.300 case if they had just said hey it's now sort of july or august of 2020 like here's your lives
00:04:19.440 back we kind of know that this is only affecting a certain number of people anyway i digress i just
00:04:24.140 I see those parallels very interesting that they're going on and like while documentations of ministerial level people in PEI, you know what I mean, selling land for cash and not only is nobody losing their job, you know what I mean, but no one's going to jail.
00:04:42.140 and it just it's very disheartening as a young person in canada who has these mounting housing
00:04:48.900 costs mounting everything costs really while taxes are skyrocketing thinking that there's
00:04:53.320 ever really a way to get ahead financially when you're just watching all the sort of corrupt
00:04:57.740 people around you cash in and then laugh in your face when you try to confront them about the
00:05:03.820 obvious things that are going on in broad daylight and it's maybe this little diatribe is is is just
00:05:08.920 mind i don't think so but i i can speak from personal experience of how frustrating and
00:05:14.240 sickening it is as a canadian to watch the country follow the path that you just described this
00:05:19.320 transition that we've seen since your childhood and my child my childhood um but the the the p2p 1.00
00:05:28.480 or sorry the pnp in the pei uh pnp was the the pnp um immigration experiment that's going on in pei
00:05:36.120 in case those are not paying attention um what's like what's what's the craziest thing of that that
00:05:42.300 you are still sort of sitting on today that you might want people to know in case they don't know
00:05:46.700 well I think the provincial nominee program it was very similar to what the federal
00:05:53.240 pro entrepreneur program was back in the 90s and it was a way for the province to sort of have a
00:06:01.440 saying how many people they allowed in the province.
00:06:04.240 The sad part of that was there was a group of individuals
00:06:08.720 that I think got rich off it.
00:06:12.380 It didn't do a lot for the province.
00:06:15.640 In fact, most of the individuals that came in
00:06:18.320 never even set foot in Prince Edward Island.
00:06:21.160 They went to Toronto or Vancouver.
00:06:24.920 I think the one that is most aggrievous for me
00:06:27.940 is the monastery situation.
00:06:30.620 And, you know, I think the audience has to understand, I think a lot of the monks and nuns that are there are there for monastic reasons.
00:06:39.220 We have no reason to doubt that.
00:06:41.780 However, there's that underlying, I guess, overarching control that is being put in there.
00:06:51.260 My view is it's definitely tied to the PRC government.
00:06:54.700 We know from the Sikian, who's the number, direct ties to the Dalai Lama, that they are not tied to the Dalai Lama.
00:07:03.960 And we know that, yeah, they have land that, if you look at it, just within the monasteries, meet the guidelines.
00:07:13.800 But what everybody put their blinders on is people were being paid cash for property all around it.
00:07:20.560 It was alleged that it was part of the monks and nuns were buying this themselves.
00:07:25.440 Let's get real for anybody that knows anything about a monastic group.
00:07:30.140 They're supposed to take on a life of poverty.
00:07:32.480 So all of a sudden, they're coming in with bags of cash.
00:07:36.280 Why cash?
00:07:37.560 Why did, you know, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in brand new hundred dollar bills get deposited,
00:07:46.860 the night deposit at the Bank of Nova Scotia in Prince Edward Island.
00:07:52.700 You know, how is that part of a monastic group?
00:07:55.920 And if you understand anything about money laundering,
00:07:59.720 brand new sequentially numbered $100 bills can only come from a financial institution.
00:08:06.120 It's not money on the street or anything like that.
00:08:09.260 So you've got to really ask, what is going on?
00:08:11.600 why was money from what we were provided in statements coming from Toronto, or at least
00:08:20.080 on the appearance, it looked like money was coming up from Toronto, driven up. I'm not talking any
00:08:27.660 other way. It was driven up, dropped off, and then cash was going into these night deposit ATMs.
00:08:33.700 All of this raises a lot of questions.
00:08:36.800 And, you know, what is the ultimate goal?
00:08:41.200 And, you know, as I would say, as Canadians, we're very naive.
00:08:47.220 You know, I love this statement that says silence at this stage isn't restraint, it's complicity.
00:08:56.800 And that's the best way I can describe this.
00:09:00.520 The Honorable Wayne Easter has joined our call for a federal public inquiry on this.
00:09:09.220 It's, I think, for the most part, falling on deaf ears.
00:09:14.420 I'm, you know, a sad part of it is if it was done objectively with the right people and with no constraints on it,
00:09:23.920 I think what would be found out would be startling to the public and probably an embarrassment to a lot of politicians.
00:09:33.040 I agree. Do you think that the banking industry should take more responsibility and or be more held accountable for the obvious woeful blindness they've been displaying over the last 20 to realistically 25 years this has been going on?
00:09:47.800 banks have and i think public has understand has spent billions of dollars with their aml
00:09:54.380 controls and everything um they you know i mean if you were to look at the size of
00:09:59.840 compliance departments today i think most people would be shocked how much they're spending
00:10:04.580 however they're still in the business of profit they're still in the business of individuals
00:10:10.820 getting bonuses based on profit and i think when you look at the size of some of the banks
00:10:17.720 that we have in this country, having control of all the front line, having control of all the
00:10:23.420 sales departments and really, you know, having a total vision of what's going on. I think we saw
00:10:31.320 it with the TD Bank fiasco can show how quickly that can go off the rails. And so are they doing
00:10:40.060 100% job? Unfortunately, no. I don't think it's intentional. But individuals are individuals.
00:10:48.960 There's individuals that will turn a blind eye. And how do you control a large organization
00:10:55.200 to make sure everybody's on side? That being said, it's no excuse. In this day and age,
00:11:01.200 I believe the systems are there. And we've just got to, in my view, every bank has to take it
00:11:09.040 seriously and you know i guess take no prisoners they're finding something that's not being done
00:11:15.360 properly and an individual is turning a blind eye they should no longer be working in the bank
00:11:23.120 do you think that it's possible to put people in positions of power that will actually have
00:11:29.040 a spine the way that you've demonstrated throughout your career not just in policing
00:11:34.400 but through these sort of secondary and tertiary investigations and now working with the banking industry?
00:11:40.520 Like, again, these senior people that are, in my opinion, capable of actually influencing and making real change.
00:11:46.920 Do you think that once the person gets there, their spine just evaporates through their personal ambitions?
00:11:55.600 Or is there a way that we can sort of hold these people accountable and put people in positions of authority that will actually dig into any of this?
00:12:04.960 I'd like to think the answer to that is yes, because we've, you know, we've seen it through the number of wars that Canadians have fought in, that there is leaders that can come forward and have a spine.
00:12:19.120 I think there's individuals out there that are very aligned with what we're saying, that we need to see some, I guess, individuals that speak truth to power.
00:12:30.840 I think it's broken down.