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.
00:00:00.000A culture of corruption and entitlement is always going to develop within a government if it's been in power for too long.
00:00:06.780This is a law that's as immutable as that of gravity, especially within a governance system like Canada's,
00:00:12.180where it has little to no provisions for accountability or transparency between elections.
00:00:16.780And this issue isn't even a left or right one. This happens with governments of all ideological leanings.
00:00:21.500I mean, conservative governments have dealt with corruption as well.
00:00:25.320Opportunists and grifters don't have political ideologies.
00:00:28.000Their 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.
00:00:36.580The longer an administration remains in power, the more entrenched these corrupted parasites are going to become,
00:00:42.180and the cozier they get with senior bureaucrats and ministers within the government.
00:00:46.380Inside dealing and influence peddling becomes endemic,
00:00:49.320and the participants don't think twice about siphoning off tax dollars for themselves and, of course, their friends.
00:00:53.840The crooks robbing taxpayers, they rarely directly embezzle from the government.
00:00:58.620Their methods usually involve sole sourcing government contracts with high payments and low expectations of productivity,
00:01:05.460if indeed there's any expectations of productivity at all.
00:01:08.920I mean, the Arrive Scam app scandal is a perfect example.
00:01:12.580Tens of millions of tax dollars funneled to a number of companies to create an app that works terribly
00:01:16.840and could have been created for a few hundred thousand dollars.
00:01:19.980Two grifters working from a garage with no qualification to create apps somehow managed to get these contracts,
00:01:25.340and while it's now been exposed, it's doubtful that anybody's ever going to be held accountable.
00:01:29.700The contract recipients are stonewalling,
00:01:31.880the bureaucrats involved have already been covering things up,
00:01:34.680and the government, of course, has no appetite to see this crime investigated any further.
00:01:38.320The Arrive Scam app, that's just one of hundreds of contracts that the federal government gives out.
00:01:44.000We've barely seen the tip of the iceberg of how badly Canadian tax dollars are being abused,
00:01:49.180and things are going to become a whole lot worse.
00:01:52.440You see, the Trudeau government's taken a sharp shift in strategy lately.
00:01:56.020I mean, they had been trying to maintain their hold on power through increasing authoritarianism through the years.
00:02:00.700They hoped if they could control the media and internet communications enough,
00:02:04.160they'd be able to save themselves from an eventual electoral loss.