Western Standard - Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau thrown under the bus while at Three Banditos Summit

00:00:00.000 well welcome to another edition of otto exposed with david creighton i'm the senior parliamentary

00:00:15.840 columnist for the western standard and before i get into the columns i just want to welcome you

00:00:20.720 back and say that this experiment in broadcasting this ottawa expose has had a phenomenal reception

00:00:30.000 and i want to thank all of your viewers for the tremendous response that we've had

00:00:37.200 and it just it has really been a great learning experience but moreover it's been a it's been

00:00:45.600 fantastic to see your comments and your responses because what i'm here for every week is truly to

00:00:52.080 expose what ottawa is doing to you and to us and to talk about what is happening in this country 0.79

00:01:00.720 And I'm never going to give you double talk.

00:01:03.720 I'm not going to lie to you, and I'm not going to tell you political talking points,

00:01:08.260 because that's what the mainstream media is doing.

00:01:11.920 And the mainstream media is receiving $600 million in subsidy from the Trudeau government.

00:01:19.300 And how do you think that affects their reporting?

00:01:23.180 Well, I would suggest that makes them a little more positive towards the Trudeau government

00:01:28.580 than they would be otherwise.

00:01:30.000 and let's not forget cbc 1.6 billion dollars annually as the state media mother cbc

00:01:38.000 always telling us what the government wants us to hear but here at the western standard

00:01:43.760 we are independent media we don't take a single cent in taxpayer subsidy and that's why i'm free

00:01:50.240 to talk about the truth and i'd like to get on with one of the biggest stories of the week which

00:01:55.600 was the purchase of the f-35 joint strike fighter now i have supported this project for

00:02:04.880 15 years that's how long it's taken for this to come to fruition but believe it or not

00:02:10.960 it was the liberal government of jean chretien that originally signed on to this project in the

00:02:16.640 early 2000s it was john chretien government who said that we're going to need a fighter in the

00:02:22.960 future that is interoperable with our allies and so the f-35 was the fighter for all of our allies

00:02:32.720 that decision was was kicked down the road and stephen harper had nine years

00:02:38.720 to consider that decision and to and to buy those f-35s he chose not to

00:02:43.840 and when he went down to defeat to justin trudeau he was still not promising to buy it

00:02:49.040 he never mentioned it in the 2015 federal election justin trudeau did then liberal leader

00:02:58.080 and he said it with canada would never buy the f-35 it was a nightmare for taxpayers as he

00:03:03.600 described it so seven years later his government finally decided to buy these now did they dither

00:03:10.480 on this decision of course they did did they try to find ways to minimize the damage on trudeau's

00:03:16.880 credibility always liberal governments will do that but should we support the decision to buy

00:03:23.360 the f-35 yes better late than never and of course it's ironic to me and i mentioned this in my column

00:03:30.880 this week that it was justin trudeau's father then prime minister pierre trudeau who decided to buy

00:03:39.440 the f-18s in 1982 now do your arithmetic that's 41 years ago that's how old the f-18 is

00:03:46.880 And Trudeau only made that decision because the life cycle and the lifespan of the CF-101 voodoo was past its term.

00:03:58.940 They couldn't fly these anymore.

00:04:00.760 I grew up at a fighter base in Comox, British Columbia.

00:04:04.320 The voodos were literally held together with gun tape towards the end. 0.99

00:04:08.760 And we needed a new fighter jet.

00:04:10.600 It's the fact of life when you belong to organizations like NORAD and NATO.

00:04:15.460 You need equipment that's not just modern, but can operate with your allies.

00:04:22.020 The F-35 is flown by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines, as well as the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.

00:04:29.840 They're all flying the F-35.

00:04:31.680 Australia's already got theirs.

00:04:33.780 In fact, we bought old F-18s off Australia to keep our aircraft still in the air.

00:04:39.680 canada as a member of nato norad must be interoperable and we must have aircraft

00:04:45.840 that are part of the modern aviation world so this was the right decision taken way too late

00:04:51.680 but my main point about decisions about defense in this country is that they are always highly

00:04:58.000 politicized and it's like governments make a decision when they think they can get away with

00:05:04.320 it and that's not the way it should be national defense should be a priority and it should be

00:05:10.000 non-partisan it should be a decision that we can all agree on why is it they can do this in

00:05:16.560 australia in the uk in the united states they can make decisions on national defense that are

00:05:23.440 non-partisan or bipartisan at least and we haven't been able to do this in canada for both goodness

00:05:31.280 of the 60 years probably where that where defense has been a basically neutral issue

00:05:36.880 and we need to do it for the sake of the men and women in uniform not for the liberal government

00:05:43.360 not for the liberal party not even for the conservative party we need to do it for those

00:05:49.040 who need the equipment to do their jobs canada's a huge country huge coastline we need equipment

00:05:56.160 that can do the job and i think the f-35 is going to do that you've heard naysayers say that it can't

00:06:02.480 operate in the arctic in cold weather conditions this is absolute nonsense it's flying every day

00:06:08.560 in nor in norway as part of its nato commitment so don't give me this nonsense that it can't fly

00:06:15.680 in the arctic and it just has one engine and so therefore the engine is going to fail the people

00:06:20.160 who tell you this are peace activists who don't know a single thing about aerospace engineering

00:06:24.400 or defense needs if the rcaf was not on the floor today saying yes thank god we've got an aircraft

00:06:32.400 that we can use i think that's i would i would doubt that they're getting the right aircraft

00:06:38.080 but there's a consensus out there amongst people who know that this is the right aircraft and i'm

00:06:43.840 glad this government's gone through with it way too late way too politicized but thank god defense

00:06:51.040 needs are being met finally at least in one one category so having said that i want to move on

00:06:57.360 to another highly politicized story of the week which was bill morno's book which is coming out

00:07:03.200 this week you remember bill morno bill morno is a former liberal mp from toronto and a finance

00:07:10.800 minister for five years under justin trugel so he's got a book coming out next week very unusual

00:07:17.280 title, by the way. It's called Where To From Here? A Path to Canadian Prosperity. The title is a bit

00:07:24.560 ironic because when you read Morneau and you listen to his recent interviews, he thinks where

00:07:30.900 we're going from here is into a national recession, which he says was spurred by too much government

00:07:37.160 spending under Justin Trudeau. He overspent on the pandemic. Well, I think we can agree with

00:07:43.060 bill mornell on this even though he was certainly part of that initial spending but trudeau went

00:07:48.420 crazy with pandemic spending and per capita he spent as much as joe biden president joe biden

00:07:54.580 in the united states where they spent trillions of dollars on pandemic spending with very little

00:07:59.780 accountability about where the spending was actually going who was going to reach who was

00:08:04.180 going to help was it actually going towards covet 19 relief or was it going to pet political projects

00:08:11.780 for the government this has been the case in the united states and canada

00:08:15.380 where coveted relief isn't really coveted relief it's just government spending more government

00:08:20.020 spending under the edges of pandemic relief so i if you uh i haven't read the entirety of this book

00:08:29.140 i'll be honest with you but i found some great lines in it i think the most salient line in the

00:08:33.460 book is morno writing that soon after the 2015 election i came to realize that while

00:08:40.500 his meeting Justin Trudeau's performance skills were superb his management and interpersonal

00:08:48.480 communication abilities were sorely lacking now why do you suppose Bill Morneau said performance

00:08:54.780 skills because Justin Trudeau is an actor that's the one job he's had outside of politics he he

00:09:01.800 was a it was a drama teacher and I think he really fancies himself as a great actor look at any time

00:09:07.020 he makes a national appearance or when he's discussing policy issues he looks like an actor

00:09:15.820 on the stage or actually uh more than like on a daytime soap soap opera that's he's really

00:09:23.420 good at performing but this there's a there's a vacuity behind it a lack of substance behind it

00:09:31.100 which i think morino found out there's nothing there this guy is all about ego he just likes to

00:09:36.540 spend money because it makes him look good if he can spend trillions of dollars on programs

00:09:43.420 that he says are going to benefit you they're really going to benefit him because it looks like

00:09:48.140 he's spending your money wisely but he's not he's wasting taxpayer money not his money it's not the

00:09:54.060 government's money it's your money and he's siphoning it off for his pet projects and identity politics

00:10:00.620 as justin trudeau is want to do so i think it's important to re to remember that morno

00:10:09.420 probably still harbors political ambition i don't know if he wants to be the next leader of the

00:10:13.980 liberal party or if he wants to be the prime minister someday but he's careful to some degree

00:10:21.100 to not go full throttle against trudeau and he he holds back a bit but in political memoirs even

00:10:28.620 this one which i think is a tad premature for morno because he might still have a feature but

00:10:34.300 politicians today will write their memoirs three or four times look at obama uh hillary clinton i

00:10:40.060 mean they're on their third volume of their memoirs they go on and on and on so morno might be uh

00:10:45.580 doing a second volume as well but there's all we have to read between the lines and put in political

00:10:52.620 memoirs and political biography especially when they're written by politicians because there's

00:10:56.620 some things that they will not say not just yet and morno is is careful to some degree but another

00:11:02.940 interesting comment he makes in this book is virtually any topic you wanted to discuss with

00:11:07.420 the prime minister official or informal strategy or gossip had to be shared in the presence

00:11:15.180 of members of his staff now why do you suppose he's so obsessed with having other people around

00:11:21.740 well trudeau likes yes men in the room with him who will bolster his opinions no matter how crazy

00:11:28.700 no matter how absurd he wants people in the room to say yes yes mr prime minister that's

00:11:34.540 an excellent idea he also wants people there with witnesses in case somebody disagrees with him

00:11:41.100 and he can say never again you're losing your position in cabinet you're not going to be

00:11:46.140 dealing with this issue anymore trudeau is all about control all and all about promoting his

00:11:52.860 own ego and satiating his own ego and all his decisions and moreno confirms this that he would

00:11:59.260 say don't spend so much in this project trudeau would nod the evening before the morning after

00:12:05.580 he'd appear in a quickie news conference and he would go above that spending ceiling he would go

00:12:11.180 way beyond that because it made trudeau look like he was doing something and that's all this

00:12:18.140 government has been about is looking like they're doing something and doing something just means

00:12:22.540 spending money spending money like crazy trudeau's doubled the national debt in seven years that is

00:12:28.460 incredible to double the national debt in seven years but he's done that hasn't made many other

00:12:34.380 good economic decisions and we'll deal with with some of those later but it's quite astounding when

00:12:39.500 when you think of where Justin Trudeau is going as a prime minister.

00:12:45.260 And I'm very happy to see some honesty in political memoirs.

00:12:50.220 This was not very much reported by the mainstream media

00:12:52.940 because it was critical of Trudeau.

00:12:55.540 Morneau has done a few interviews to supplement this book.

00:12:58.320 Obviously, he wants to promote it.

00:13:00.020 He wants high sales.

00:13:01.580 I don't know if he's going to get those.

00:13:03.240 But I think it's interesting to have a look at some of the comments that he's made

00:13:06.440 because they go to the heart of what's wrong with this brutal government,

00:13:09.880 which Morneau was a part of.

00:13:11.740 Yeah, I resigned from it, but he had to because of ethical concern.

00:13:14.840 And Morneau doesn't shine the light on himself very much

00:13:17.200 because liberals don't like to shine that light on themselves.

00:13:20.940 They like other people to take the blame.

00:13:24.180 I want to move to my third story of the week, the third column,

00:13:26.860 which was the Three Banditos Summit, a dismal exercise in farcical delusion.

00:13:31.400 Okay, that's a bit of a wordy headline,

00:13:34.920 But it's just, I watched this thing unfold.

00:13:38.020 And I said, this is incredibly absurd what's going on here.

00:13:42.220 Because here we have these three guys down in Mexico City.

00:13:48.540 All of them are dealing with political problems that are unraveling in front of them.

00:13:55.600 And here they are trying to give advice to the world.

00:13:57.780 i mean you take mexican leader and he's got the longest name i've seen of any any official it's

00:14:06.780 mexican president andre manuel lopez abridor now that might contribute to the fact that he has the

00:14:15.680 longest winded answers i've ever heard from a politician 10 minutes minimum he spent half an

00:14:20.740 hour answering one question tuesday at a news conference and you could see biden and trudeau

00:14:25.000 squirming in their seats trying to look attentive biden was just about nodding off as he as he went

00:14:30.200 on and on and on and of course mexico is in the midst of a of a civil war yeah it's a real civil

00:14:38.200 war they're fighting the drug cartels and the drug cartels are armed like they're a another military

00:14:44.440 in the country they're armed as well as the mexican military and are trading blows with the

00:14:49.400 mexican army it's phenomenal they're fighting for control of the state and is mexico a failed state 0.62

00:14:55.720 very much almost there but here we're getting advice from mexico on north american excellence

00:15:04.280 that's that's the real kicker for this for this summit it was all about north american excellence

00:15:10.520 what civil war in mexico joe biden u.s president joe biden is lecturing people about migration

00:15:17.560 especially haiti now joe biden can't control his own southern border he has no southern border

00:15:25.240 you know and because illegals are crossing the southern border from mexico into texas and

00:15:32.440 arizona and california at the rate of tens of thousands per week they have no border policy

00:15:39.960 they have an open border and this is at the same time the united states is giving billions of

00:15:45.800 dollars to ukraine to fight its war with russia it doesn't protect its own sovereignty on its

00:15:54.840 southern border and biden went down to texas last week to have a look at this open border they

00:16:00.520 cleaned up the mess that these illegals had left and they they showed him a pristine border got 1.00

00:16:07.880 rid of all the garbage and all the crap that was around and made it look a little more civil and 0.94

00:16:13.800 shuffled some people but it's the first time he visited the border he still doesn't have a border 0.99

00:16:18.440 policy and there things are getting worse not better for the for the u.s at the southern border

00:16:26.520 and finally we have our own prime minister justin trudeau the guy who invoked the emergencies act

00:16:32.440 last year because his he wants to hold on power so dearly he wants to be so authoritarian he

00:16:37.720 He decided to clamp down on a bunch of peaceful protesters and truckers, blue collar workers who Trudeau used to say he supported.

00:16:47.120 That's how insecure he is.

00:16:48.860 He has to use a draconian measure like the Emergencies Act to stop protests in his own country.

00:16:56.820 This is also the guy, as I said, who doubled the national debt in seven years and who said there was no business case for selling natural gas to Germany.

00:17:07.480 no business case well guess what germany found a business case with qatar qatar found a business

00:17:12.760 case for selling natural gas and they're able to do it across the water and canada missed out on a

00:17:21.160 billion multi-billion dollar deal here now trudeau could have done one thing right as prime minister

00:17:27.320 and signed off in this deal but he's so afraid of looking like he has in any way enhancing fossil

00:17:33.240 fuels that he backed away from it and made another colossal error but that's what justin true was all

00:17:39.560 about i love some of the comments at this at this summit on north american excellence and

00:17:49.320 is here's joe biden he's trying to remember something trudeau said you know when trudeau

00:17:53.720 just talks in bromides all the time cliches and bromides that very there's never any profundity

00:18:00.280 in anything trudeau says but he's trying to remember saying they said uh that's something

00:18:04.840 that we can do i think your phrase was pointing to justin trudeau when we work together we can

00:18:10.440 achieve great things wow isn't isn't that a mouthful biden finally remembered but we should

00:18:17.480 be doing and we are doing is demonstrating the unlimited economic potential that we have in north

00:18:22.200 america i don't see much demonstration of that actually and you remember jake sullivan who was

00:18:29.400 the national security uh flack during the withdrawal from afghanistan that huge fiasco

00:18:35.800 where the where the u.s left billions of dollars of equipment for the taliban

00:18:39.960 uh deserted their thousands of allies to the taliban essentially allowed the taliban to re

00:18:45.960 take over the country uh in we in a matter of weeks and it was a huge failure but jake sullivan

00:18:52.200 was the guy standing there stuttering nervously never getting his facts straight so he was at the

00:18:58.120 summit as well again for the national security agency he's the chief flack and he was saying

00:19:03.640 that canada should be helping out in haiti now truder wasn't biting but biden was also saying

00:19:10.100 that this would be a good thing because haiti has migration issues my migration issues what does the

00:19:17.000 united states have it has huge migration issues called illegal border crossing every day but joe

00:19:23.260 biden doesn't want to talk about that or even acknowledge that catastrophe he wants to talk

00:19:27.840 about haiti and of course trudeau was not wasn't committing us to a peacekeeping operation there

00:19:34.880 because god knows the uh everything everything commits our military to fails like the disaster

00:19:41.840 in molly was a was a perfect example of that but trudeau came out with another word salad

00:19:47.980 and it exactly sums up what this man is about because our capacities to work together has

00:19:55.020 brought us to date some extraordinary success. But at a time of disruption around the world with

00:19:59.320 very real challenges, we can and must be doing even more. There's that word again, challenges.

00:20:06.760 Justin Trudeau is always coming up against challenges. I discussed recently his interview

00:20:11.740 he did with a former Montreal talk show host. The guy does a YouTube show out of his house

00:20:18.240 in Vancouver now. And it was a moment of honesty from Justin Shrew as he discussed what he does

00:20:26.240 with his spare time. He doesn't watch his science fiction all the time, read Stephen King novels,

00:20:30.480 hates being bothered with policy notes, really doesn't like to be bothered with work when he

00:20:35.220 can escape into escapism. And he also said, he talked about challenges constantly. Everything

00:20:40.740 was a challenge. Of course, this is a weasel word. I hate using that word because sometimes

00:20:45.680 things are just difficult and tough there's more than a challenge and but trudeau talks about

00:20:51.600 challenges all the time and of course these are the bromides he was dealing with when he was in

00:20:56.640 mexico city what else did trudeau do at the three bandito summit gave away another half billion

00:21:04.000 dollars to ukraine so they can continue to fight in the war don't you think it's time we started

00:21:09.680 talking about ending that war because it can go on forever like the first world war almost did 0.57

00:21:15.200 where he had a stalemate on the western front and the only people who benefited were the armaments

00:21:20.240 industry and they kept selling bullets and bombs and missiles and shells to britain and germany

00:21:28.000 eventually the united states and this is exactly what's happening in ukraine it's time to end this

00:21:33.040 war because it could come a nuclear conflict at any moment any day any week it's time to end the

00:21:40.880 war in ukraine not keep feeding it but trudeau just weeks after he gave ukraine 500 billion

00:21:47.920 dollars he comes up with another half or excuse me half half a billion dollars he comes up with

00:21:55.520 another 406 million for a missile defense system that canada doesn't even have anyway i hope you

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Ottawa Exposed： Trudeau thrown under the bus while at Three Banditos Summit

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