Western Standard - April 11, 2024


The Trudeau government’s corruption is poised to become much worse

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A culture of corruption and entitlement is always going to develop within a government if it's been in power for too long. This is a law that's as immutable as that of gravity, especially within a governance system like Canada's where it has little to no provisions for accountability or transparency between elections. And this issue isn't even a left or right one. This happens with governments of all ideological leanings. I mean, conservative governments have dealt with corruption as well. Opportunists and grifters don't have political ideologies. Their only allegiance is to themselves and their wallets. And they'll attach themselves to any government or bureaucracy if they see opportunities for personal gain. The longer an administration remains in power, the more entrenched these corrupted parasites become, and the cozier they get with senior bureaucrats and ministers within the government.

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00:00:00.000 A culture of corruption and entitlement is always going to develop within a government if it's been in power for too long.
00:00:06.780 This is a law that's as immutable as that of gravity, especially within a governance system like Canada's,
00:00:12.180 where it has little to no provisions for accountability or transparency between elections.
00:00:16.780 And this issue isn't even a left or right one. This happens with governments of all ideological leanings.
00:00:21.500 I mean, conservative governments have dealt with corruption as well.
00:00:25.320 Opportunists and grifters don't have political ideologies. 0.89
00:00:28.000 Their only allegiance is to themselves and their wallets, and they'll attach themselves to any government or bureaucracy if they see opportunities for personal gain. 0.99
00:00:36.580 The longer an administration remains in power, the more entrenched these corrupted parasites are going to become, 0.96
00:00:42.180 and the cozier they get with senior bureaucrats and ministers within the government. 0.97
00:00:46.380 Inside dealing and influence peddling becomes endemic,
00:00:49.320 and the participants don't think twice about siphoning off tax dollars for themselves and, of course, their friends.
00:00:53.840 The crooks robbing taxpayers, they rarely directly embezzle from the government.
00:00:58.620 Their methods usually involve sole sourcing government contracts with high payments and low expectations of productivity,
00:01:05.460 if indeed there's any expectations of productivity at all.
00:01:08.920 I mean, the Arrive Scam app scandal is a perfect example.
00:01:12.580 Tens of millions of tax dollars funneled to a number of companies to create an app that works terribly
00:01:16.840 and could have been created for a few hundred thousand dollars.
00:01:19.980 Two grifters working from a garage with no qualification to create apps somehow managed to get these contracts,
00:01:25.340 and while it's now been exposed, it's doubtful that anybody's ever going to be held accountable.
00:01:29.700 The contract recipients are stonewalling,
00:01:31.880 the bureaucrats involved have already been covering things up,
00:01:34.680 and the government, of course, has no appetite to see this crime investigated any further.
00:01:38.320 The Arrive Scam app, that's just one of hundreds of contracts that the federal government gives out.
00:01:44.000 We've barely seen the tip of the iceberg of how badly Canadian tax dollars are being abused,
00:01:49.180 and things are going to become a whole lot worse.
00:01:52.440 You see, the Trudeau government's taken a sharp shift in strategy lately.
00:01:56.020 I mean, they had been trying to maintain their hold on power through increasing authoritarianism through the years.
00:02:00.700 They hoped if they could control the media and internet communications enough,
00:02:04.160 they'd be able to save themselves from an eventual electoral loss.
00:02:08.560 I think reality has sort of sunk in.
00:02:11.360 Their strategies failed as liberal support's hitting record lows no matter what the government tries.
00:02:16.200 They know they're going to lose the next election.
00:02:18.580 So now the liberal government has embraced the tactic of massive spending increases,
00:02:22.200 and that's to serve two purposes.
00:02:24.280 Since they know they can't win the next election,
00:02:26.280 they're going to salt the earth as heavily as they can to sabotage the next government.
00:02:31.180 Increasing spending is easy.
00:02:32.380 Cutting spending is difficult, and they know that.
00:02:34.480 If and when the next federal government starts to cut into federal spending programs,
00:02:38.860 the people who've become dependent on those programs will become hysteric,
00:02:42.480 and the liberal party will use that to play up the heartlessness of the conservatives.
00:02:46.080 I'm sure legacy media will dutifully do their role as well.
00:02:49.260 Those nasty conservatives cutting all those programs.
00:02:51.540 So Trudeau's entrenching all those programs right now,
00:02:54.600 and they're going to be a problem later.
00:02:55.740 So they're looking far ahead, and they're hoping they can create the circumstances
00:02:58.860 where it's only going to be one election cycle in the political wilderness for the liberals.
00:03:03.900 The other reason they're releasing all these new spending programs is even more odious,
00:03:07.980 and it's more odious than trying to win the election down the road.
00:03:10.520 They're feathering the beds of themselves and their connected friends before they head out the door.
00:03:14.800 You see, the larger the spending program and the vaguer the mandate the program is,
00:03:18.080 the easier it'll be to abuse it.
00:03:19.660 Now think about it, Trudeau's announcement of spending $2.4 billion to help develop Canada's AI industry
00:03:26.420 is a perfect example.
00:03:27.680 Hundreds of contracts are going to be going out worth millions of dollars,
00:03:30.800 handed out with little oversight,
00:03:32.380 and no way to measure if they're achieving a tangible goal that benefits citizens.
00:03:36.560 Rest assured, there's countless government insiders right now creating companies with AI development
00:03:40.920 in the company description in anticipation of getting these juicy handouts.
00:03:44.520 It's going to be impossible to sift through them all to find out which,
00:03:47.380 if any of the contractors are legitimate,
00:03:49.660 which is, of course, the intent.
00:03:51.880 I mean, just barrage the money in there, and don't worry,
00:03:54.820 people won't see the millions going out the door.
00:03:57.160 I mean, this is a government that spent $45 million on a gun buyback program
00:04:00.140 that didn't manage to buy a single gun.
00:04:02.800 Does anybody really believe this administration can effectively control the evolution
00:04:06.620 and development of artificial intelligence?
00:04:09.100 They don't even have intelligence in the prime minister's office as it is.
00:04:11.820 They sure as hell aren't going to make an artificial one.
00:04:14.220 The announcements have been coming hot and heavy,
00:04:15.720 and they're facing little scrutiny, of course, from the legacy media outlets
00:04:18.480 to themselves become dependent on these handouts.
00:04:21.140 The Trudeau government's swirling the drain, 0.98
00:04:23.400 but the unprincipled parasites attached to it will be filling their pockets 0.97
00:04:26.640 as fast as they can in the next 18 months or so. 0.96
00:04:29.460 Strap in, folks.
00:04:30.240 It's going to get worse, and Canada is broken.
00:04:33.280 Strap in, folks. 1.00
00:04:34.660 Strap in, fool. 0.99
00:04:35.420 Strap in, whoever. 1.00
00:04:43.160 Strap in, whoever.
00:04:49.820 Alright.
00:04:50.280 Strap.
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00:04:51.740 Restart.
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00:04:58.380 They wish their courage to الله.
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