PM Trudeau Legacy of Failure 2024-10-08 Sen Plett speaks on PM Trudeau Legacy of Failure (Episode #4)

One of the most complete indictment (a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad and deserves to be condemned  "these rapidly escalating crime figures are an indictment of our society") 

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I spoke about PM Trudeau's legacy: a tenure marked by a complete loss of command due to ideology without deviation or constraint. Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I would like to continue with the response to the Speech from the Throne. I’m sure there are many of you who now wish we still had the two-hour supper break we used to instead of only one hour. Nevertheless, I want to speak a little bit. As I said the last time, I’m not doing it for the benefit of the people in the Senate; I am doing it for the benefit of the 750,000 people who viewed one of my recent speeches in which I talked about the failures of this government. I am doing this on behalf of the thousands who have asked me to continue with this. I am making this speech on behalf of my chiropractor, who, just this week on Monday, asked me, “When are you speaking again? I look forward to hearing from you.” Today, I want to speak about the failed experiments of the “woke sorcerer’s apprentice.” As I said, I’m rising to continue my response to the Speech from the Throne, focusing on Justin Trudeau’s legacy. As many of my honourable colleagues know, or maybe don’t, a German poem from 1797 written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Der Zauberlehrling” — in English, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — told the tale of an old sorcerer departing his workshop, leaving his apprentice with chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him, using magic in which he is not fully trained. The floor is soon awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does not know the magic required to do so. The apprentice then splits the broom in two with an axe, but each of the two pieces becomes a broom of its own, taking up pails and continuing to fetch water, now at twice the speed. With this increased pace, the entire room quickly begins to flood. When all seems lost, the old sorcerer returns and quickly breaks the spell. The poem concludes with the old sorcerer stating that only a master should invoke powerful spirits. In the poem, the sorcerer’s apprentice uses magic to lighten his workload, but because his knowledge and understanding are limited, his spell creates more problems than it solves. The poem illustrates the dangers of power over wisdom and the risk of human creations getting out of control. Likewise, I argue that Justin Trudeau, with all of the power and none of the required wisdom, has rolled out an ideology without deviation or constraint, making its pillars the law of the land, and has entirely lost control of his own creation. Our Prime Minister has touted Canada as one of the world’s most progressive nations, leading the way on a variety of social issues. Yet, in reality, without the possession of foresight or the ability to demonstrate flexibility or nuance, he has lost control of the monster he has created with respect to almost every major policy file. Allow me to highlight a few of the key policy areas in which our “apprentice” has hastily opened the floodgates, resulting in a complete loss of command for the government, often beyond recall. I’ll start at the beginning, with a promise Trudeau made before even becoming Prime Minister: that 2015 would be the last election under the first-past-the-post system. This was a pledge he made more than 2,000 times on the campaign trail. He committed to engage in consultations and to strike up a representative committee to determine the best path forward. (2020) Quickly, however, it became very clear that the special committee, the town halls and the nationwide consultations were nothing more than excessively costly smoke and mirrors. He knew that a referendum would not deliver the results he was looking for, so he opted for a cloaked rubber stamp instead. Immediately after taking office, the Trudeau government promised that regardless of how the consultations unfolded, they would be ending the voting system that had been in use in Canada since the beginning of our democracy. Additionally, the government’s “all-party committee” on electoral reform was unsurprisingly stacked with Liberals. Furthermore, the Green Party and Bloc Québécois were not even given voting rights. Then the committee was given an implausibly short deadline of six months to produce a report with recommendations. For Trudeau, everything was falling into place, and his dream of changing the electoral system to ensure Liberal governments forever was quickly becoming a reality. The problem for the Prime Minister was that, while he was publicly stating that the government was wide open to reform options, he had — in reality — one specific electoral system in mind and was not open to any alternative.

Senator plut thank you madam speaker I would like

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to continue along uh with the response from the

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speech from the throne I'm sure there are many of you now that wish we still had the 2-hour supper break that we used

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to have instead of only one hour but nevertheless uh uh I want to speak a

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little bit and as I said the last time I'm not doing it for the benefit of the people in the Senate I'm doing it for

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the benefit of the 750,000 people who viewed one of my recent speeches when I talked about the

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failures of this government I am doing this on behalf of the thousands that have asked me to

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continue with this I am making this speech on behalf of my chiropractor Dr

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Shen who to just this week Monday asked when are you speaking again I look

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forward to hearing from you today I want to speak about the failed

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experiments of the woke Sorcerer's

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Apprentice so uh as I said I'm rising to continue my response to the speech from

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the throne focusing on Justin Tel's

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legacies as many of my honor hble colleagues know maybe don't the German

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poem of 19 or 1797 written by Yohan Wolf Gang Von Go De Zer leing or in English

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice told the tale of an old sorcerer departing his

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Workshop leaving his Apprentice with chores to perform tired of fetching Water by the

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pale The Apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him using magic in which

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he is not fully trained the floor as soon a wash with

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water and The Apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does

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not know the magic required to do so The Apprentice then splits the broom

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in two with an axe but now each of the two pieces become a broom of their own taking up

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pales and continuing to fetch water now at twice the speed at this increased

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Pace the entire room quickly begins to flood when all seems lost the old

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sorcerer returns and quickly breaks the spell the poem concludes with the old

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sorcerer statement that only a master should invoke powerful

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spirits in the poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice uses magic to lighten his

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workload but because his knowled has of knowledge and understanding are limited

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his spell creates more problems than it solves the poem Illustrated the dangers

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of power over wisdom and the risk of human Creations getting out of control likewise colleagues I argue

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Justin trudo with all the power and none of the required wisdom has rolled out an

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ideology without deviation or constraint making its pillars the Raw

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the law of the land and has entirely lost control of his own

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creation our prime minister has toted Canada as one of the world's most

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Progressive Nations quote leading the way on a

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variety of social issues yet in reality without the possession of foresight or the ability

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to demonstrate flexibility or Nuance he has lost control of the monster he has

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created on almost every major policy file allow me to highlight a few of the

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key policy areas in which our Apprentice has hedly opened the floodgates resulting in a complete loss of command

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for the government often Beyond recall I'll start at the beginning with

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a promise that Trudeau made before even becoming the Prime Minister that is that 2015

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would be the last election under the first pass the post system this pledge was made more than

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2,000 times on the campaign Trail he committed to engage in

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consultations and to strike up a representative committee to determine the best path

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forward quickly however it became very clear that the special committee the

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town halls and the Nationwide consultations were nothing more than ex

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excessively costly smok and mirrors he knew that a referendum would not deliver

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the results he was looking for so he opted for a cloaked rubber stamp

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instead immediately after taking office the trudo government promised that regardless of how many consultations

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unfolded they would be ending the voting system that had been in use in Canada since the beginning of our

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democracy addition the government's allp Party Committee on electoral reform was

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unsurprisingly stacked with liberals furthermore colleagues the green party and the block Quebec W were

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not even given voting voting rights then the committee was given an

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implausibly short deadline of six month to produce a report with

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recommendations for trudel everything was falling into place and his his dream

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of changing the electoral system to ensure liberal governments forever was quickly becoming a

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reality the problem for the Prime Minister was that while he was publicly stating that the government was wide

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open to reform options he had in reality one specific electoral system in mind

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and was not open to any alternative the Prime Minister wanted a

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ranked or preferential bellot method A system that would disputably favor the

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liberal party however when none of the experts who testified to committee thought this

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was a wise idea and when the committee subsequently recommended a national

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referendum the Prime Minister was suddenly less passionate about upholding

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his campaign promise in June of 2017 the Prime

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Minister announced that there was no path to bringing in electoral reform because

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none of the other parties wanted to accommodate the liberal preference for rank

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ballots Justin Trudeau used the issue of electoral reform to get a

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majority but when his plan to skew the system in favor of the Liberals failed

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he cynically reneged on his promise you would think that trudel

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would accept the fact that when changing the electoral system as a certain level of consensus must be

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achieved and that there W and since there was no consensus he did the graceful thing in

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retreating well no not Justin Trudeau he said in a podcast just the last week

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that he regretted not having used his majority in the House of Commons to Ram

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his new system down the throats of Canadians and he candidly said that he

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regretted not rigging the system in favor of the Liberals ironically he also said one of

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the biggest reasons for him wanting to run one more time was that his 18-year-old son would be able to vote

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for him not because of what he would do for our country electoral reform is not the only

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way Justin Trudeau wanted to tilt our Democratic institutions in favor of the Liberal

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Party the changes he made to the Senate were no doubt

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to make sure that his policies even if rejected by a large majority of Canadians Will Survive his impeding

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electoral route while the desire to reform the Senate is as old as the institution

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itself any changes that risk compromising the very purpose of the institution have always been handled

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with tremendous care and caution in 2014 the Supreme Court of Canada rued

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that any attempt by one prime minister to fundamentally change the nature of

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the Senate without consulting the provinces would be

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unconstitutional in the past when there has been any doubt Prime Ministers had

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the good sense to turn to the highest court to get

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clarity however not this prime minister care and caution are not his style for

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the sake of political expedience during what is now commonly referred to as the

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Senate expense Scandal trudo decided to distance himself from Liberal Senators

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at least in the public eye and Rebrand the new liberal appointees as

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Independents he even even gave them some new fun titles which did nothing but

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cause uncertainty in our rules and a burdensome process to accommodate the new madeup terms

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no matter what the government would like us to believe these new senators were

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handpicked by Justin Trudeau not selected by some group the 88 Senators appointed since

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2015 were chosen by Justin trudel personally for nine long years we have

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been hearing the purportedly narrative that the trudo senate senate is apparently more independent than

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before nothing colleagues is further from the truth last July the CBC of all media

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Outlets said that despite prime minister Justin Trudeau's promise to rid the

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Senate of partisan and patronage most of the Senators appointed to the upper house over the past years have ties to

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the Liberals shocking those are those so-called independent Senators have

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donated money to the federal liberals or have worked with the federal part or a provincial Liberal Party last July the

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Globe and Mail put it clearly forget thep while it was always better for the

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health of the skeptical mind to put the words independent senator in quotation marks when it came to political

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Persuasions of Mr Trudeau's 82 appointments since

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2016 the tenor of his latest ones make it a medical

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necessity and that was before the most recent appointments now I want to make

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it clear colleagues I support political appointments to the Senate there is not a shot at any one Senator here I support

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political appointments to do this job efficiently you need to understand how Canada and its political institutions

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work you have to be able to access a network including a caucus that brings

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you knowledge and perspective what I do not like is the hypocrisy of using the label independent

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when you have been appointed by an ultra partisan prime minister who is the leader of the party you have worked for

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for a long time as I said our new colleagues will

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join the dozens of senators appointed by Justin trudel who voted 96% of the time with the leader of the

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government in the Senate Canadians have not bought into

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this facade of Independence for Trudeau Senate but his experiment is more than a

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problem of smoke and mirrors for one it has led to substantial increase in

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costs the Senate's actual costs in fiscal 201516 before Justin Trudeau appointed

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senators were under $75 million the budget for the current year

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after 82 Trudeau appointments is $135 million

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$60 million more for the Trudeau Senate and that is a fact colleagues

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even if Senator monion would like to change the numbers those are

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facts it has also led to a lack of efficiency in the chamber what used to be negotiated

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between the government and the opposition now must involve several leaders making it more difficult to

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reach consensus and maintain a agreements even if the other leaders will inevitably follow the government

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lead what has also happened with so many splintered groups and lack of clock

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cohesion is a stark increase in Senators arising to speak not just me for

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unlimited time just to repeat what has already been said a tiresome burden on

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productivity Senators who have always exercised Independence used to also have

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the support of a working relationship with their respective National caucus the discussion surrounding the

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drafting of legislation used to be hammered out in caucus meetings where Senators could weigh in on for example

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the regional impacts of a specific proposal good case in point is Senator

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Prosper just speaking about c49 that had been left up to two

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caucuses I think we would have come across the Finish Line in a much better manner than we did now now when senators

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are looking for a legislative proposal for the first time and each Senator has a very specific pet concern the process

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gets bogged down and delayed how many private members bills do we have in the Senate right now and you can add to this

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mess the fact that we have a record number of Senate public bills in front

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of us which means committees no longer have the time to conduct studies like all institutions that have

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existed for more than a century the Senate has never been immune

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to the need for regular reviews of rules and processes yet what was once an efficient

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institution of thoughtful review has now become a vessel for Endless personal

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projects Advanced through Senate public bills what began as a hasty PR

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experiment for Trudeau has a result and a radical shifting of an institution

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with less productiv productivity less transparency and less value for the

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taxpayers again as the globan mail itself concluded last J July on top of

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being more expensive but no less partisan than it was before the Senate

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is also now less productive it is now clear that the

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attempt to change the Senate is a fiiled experiment by our woke Sorcerer

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Apprentice on cannabis Justin Trudeau approached the legalization of cannabis

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in the same manner a mix of progressive ideology political calculation and a

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desire to make his liberal friends profit it was a sure winner or so he

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thought as journalist Susan martinuk reported he no out felt it would be one

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of his easiest and most rewarding tax tasks as Canada's new and Uber cool

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prime minister terrible however when problems with Bill c45 were were

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revealed Crudo persisted anyway as Martin knuk pointed out and I

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quote Trudeau's determination to push the bill through clearly exposes the

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problem with Bill c45 it's a watershed moment that covers

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public policy health care and Canadian law yet the Liberals refuse to see it as

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anything more than an election promise that was must be in place by August

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details be damned end of quote as Trudeau tends to do when facts

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get in the way of his ideology he ignores the experts he ignored the police who said

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they were not ready he ignored the medical experts who said the legislation posed an increased risk

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for children he ignored the experts who testified from Colorado and Washington

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and offered a strong warning to slow down don't rush the process take your

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time even when the public is clamoring for Access he ignored the law professors

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who warned that the black market does not go away after legal

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legalization and he ignored the US drug enforcement agency who said the illegal

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production of marijuana increased 20 fold in us jurisdictions with

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legalization shame wow it's now been more than 6 years since cannabis was

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legalized the promises as many of us in this chamber remember were that the new

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policy would a improve safety and public health and reduce access to

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youth B lessen drug rated crime and diminish or even kill the illegal

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market and see create a new profitable and legal

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industry the first promise about health and safety for our youth has not been kept for the fifth anniversary of the

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passage of Bill c45 the medical Canadian Medical Association Journal undertook a wide

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study one of the largest of its kind and subsequently reported many disturbing

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findings first the report notes an increase in the prevalence of cannabis

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use this is confirmed by statistics Canada 14.8% of Canadians consumed

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cannabus before legalization in 2017 and the number stabilized at 22% in

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2021 this means there are there are roughly 50% more people using

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cannabis than there was before legalization terrible and it is not only

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the increase in the number of users that is concerning it is the severity of the results of this increased

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consumption the cmj study showed that there has been a sharp increase in

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cannabis related emergency department visits and in cannabis impaired driving

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since legalization the study also found that people who

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visit emergency departments for cannabis use are at a heightened risk of being

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diagnosed with schizophrenia at the same time Ottawa

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Mental Health Specialists say they are seeing an striking increase in patients

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presenting with significant psychiatric issues that appear to be related to

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cannabis use a trend seen widely across the province the report notes that

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across Ontario annual increases of cannabis induced cyclosis increased by

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22.7% between 2014 and

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2021 as predicted by those of us who warned the government this was a large

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uptake uptick in cannabis poisonings among young children in provinces where

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Edibles were legal the increase in the availability also led to a surge in

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cannabis attributable hospitalizations particularly among people aged 25 years and

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older we have now reached the point that according to Stats can and I quote many

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Canadians are consuming cannabis before or at work raising questions about

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safety on the job statan also reported that one in 12 Canadians approximately

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300,000 people who had consumed cannabis in the pre previous second year scored high

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enough on the severity of dependent scale to be considered a risk for

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addiction that explains cabin thank you I would agree with that

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I would agree with that they probably well I probably can't say that I might have to retract

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that uh the outcomes we are seeing are the precise precise outcomes the Prime

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Minister was warned of yet he did not have the wisdom or foresight to pause or pivot from his

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ideological tenant he held so dear according to a recent CBC

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article and again this is the CBC and they and I quote they say five

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years later Public Health experts say legalization hasn't created any health

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benefits but has been linked to some serious concerns

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the second promise the reduction of the role of organized crime in the Cannabis Market has also not been kept the black

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market now accounts for 35% of sales according to stats Canada and faces

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virtually no risk of from enforcement a study by deoe suggested

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that the average price in the ilit market remains 20% lower than in the

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legal retail stores as for the business side of the Cannabis legal trade it has also been a

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colossal failure too many companies entered the market and the government failed to put in place a realistic tax

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scheme Paul McCarthy the president of cannabis Council of Canada quoted last

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July in the globan mail said 40% of all filings from companies seeking

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protection from creditors to restructure last year came from the Cannabis sector

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40% the Regulatory and tax ation regime regime is suffocating this business he

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said for many liberal insiders though this does not matter they were the first

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to invest in the sector sometimes way before the bill was tabled they knew it was coming once bill c45 passed and

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cannabis became the new stock craves they unloaded their shares before the

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evaluation of the Cannabis producers went tumbling down instead of treading carefully

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Justin Trudeau wanted his Canada to be the first country to legalize PLT he

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would then look across the globe like this cool dude that he thinks he is all

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he managed to do is create more problems this is another trudo failed

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experiment now turning to dangerous drugs the trudo government used the same

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far-left ideological approach Visa V more dangerous drugs in

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2023 8,049 people died of opioid opioid

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overdoses in Canada over 2500 of them were in the province of British Columbia

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Terri under Justin Trudeau crime hopelessness and despair have reached

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unprecedented levels this is fertile ground for increased drug use and this is exactly

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what we see there have been colleagues 45,000 deaths related to the opioid

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toxicity crisis in Canada since Justin Trudeau became the Prime

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Minister the number of deaths has increased on a yearly basis by

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184% since our woke Sorcerers Apprentice became the prime minister of

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Canada this year the equivalent of half the population of my city of Steinbeck

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half the population will die of opioid overdose in Canada this is a national

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tragedy and we are not talking about the ravage we are not talking about the ravages caused by other hard

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drugs what has been Justin Trudeau's answer first he decided to make it

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easier for drug dealers to get bail and make sure there would be no longer any harsh sentences but I will come to that

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later then the government embarked on a program to basically provide the drugs to users instead of treating the

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addiction the Liberals decided it would be good to fuel the

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addiction saves on assisted suicide I guess this program has been a failure

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not only does it reduce the number of people that were addicted but it even increases it earlier this year police

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conducted massive busts of diverted drugs in Prince George and Campell River

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The Vancouver Police Department have stated that around 50% of all Hydromorphone seizures were diverted

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from trudel's taxpayer funded hard drugs program according to the president of

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London Police Association it is common knowledge among police officers that

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so-called safe Supply programs are being abused and widely diverted into the

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community so that users can use profits from their sales to buy even more deadly

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fentanyl the hard drugs that the trudel government provides are frequently we resold to

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teenagers and other vulnerable Canadians getting them hooked on opioids and

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leading them into destructive cycle of addiction not only are those government

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funded drug dens Distributing drugs that are resold on the street but they are

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also often in residential areas close to schools or kindergartens for the trud

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Liberals there is no issue in having syringes in playgrounds or having the kindergartens ask police to go with

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toddlers for their safety during their daily

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strolls the other wacko policy that the wacko liberals put in place is the

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decriminalization of hard drugs in British Colombia where trudel The

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Sorcerer's Apprentice began his experiment The Province saw a

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400% increase in drug overdose deaths drug overdoses have become the leading

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cause of death for children in BC between the ages of 10 and

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18 heartbreaking colleagues heartbreaking this experiment also led

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to rampant open drug use in playgrounds public spaces and even hospitals that is

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why even the NDP premier of British Columbia had to ask the government to walk back this dangerous failed

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experiment if you don't believe me that the trudel plan is just a failed experiment just turn to our former

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colleague Larry Campbell who can be who can be accused

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of a lot of things but being a conservative colleagues is not one of them Senator Campbell was a huge

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supporter of the Trudeau approach to illegal drugs last July he said that the

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government made a mistake when it decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs without

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thinking through the impact on communities he said the government made an even worse mistake when it started

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dispensing prescription opioids to drug users according to Senator Campbell the

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government has put too much stress on reducing the harms that come with using drugs and not enough on helping people

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quit using them all together not often that I agreed with senator Larry

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Campbell but I do hear this has been a failed

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experiment now Justin Trudeau's tenure as prime minister has been marked by

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Co such a pandemic had not been seen for a century so obviously there was a lot of

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improvisation and experiments by governments here and all over the globe let me summarize how Justin Tudor's

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government fared in this first we can all deplore the fact that none of the lessons that should

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have been learned from smaller pandemics such as SARS or the Aven flu seemed to

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have been remembered by the federal government it was as if we were caught

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completely flat-footed with no material ready and no

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plan I find that strange since it was made clear by the previous conservative

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government we had a minister here who wanted to remember the previous conservative

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government they had plans that were drawn up and we had sufficient stalks of

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pp it is obvious that the liberal government failed to maintain our strategic PP e talks and to adequately

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prepare for a pandemic that almost all experts predicted would come sooner or

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later so left unprepared how did Justin Trudeau and Company

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react first they denied there was a problem they believed every lie that the

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Chinese Communist party and the World Health Organization spewed until it became obvious that they were indeed

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lies even if our security agencies and our allies warned the trudo government that

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this dangerous disease was spreading rapidly it did not treat the threat

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seriously the Liberals refused to stop flights from China until it was too late

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accusing those of us who proposed to act of being

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racist the Liberals dithered before starting to stalk PPA PPE and medication

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putting us at the back of the line for purchases when the conservatives raised

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the issue in the House of Commons on January 27th 2020 the minister of Health said and I

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quote that the risk to Canadians remains low that the risk to Canadians remains

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low the Liberals didn't do anything until it was too late then in March of

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2020 the government realized that Co was indeed a serious threat at first the

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Liberals just improvised they really had no clue what they were doing our health our health

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experts told us to wash our groceries but that wearing a mask would

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be useless since we were all too dumb to know how to wear

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it the Liberals panicked and did what liberals do when there is a problem

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throw money at the problem while of course allowing fellow liberals to get

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rich they bought millions and millions of dollars of equipment always at

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inflated prices and most of the time for nothing they signed contracts with

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Friends of the Liberal Party such as former liberal MP Frank bis Who Sold

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ventilators colleagues that were never used in fact the government spent over 7

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$150 million on ventilators 95% of which were never

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used $750 million snc Lavin was awarded a $150

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million contract for field hospitals that were never requested by the Department of

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Health no Province asked for the supplies on top of the equipment and

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supplies that were never used there were some that were not even delivered the government itself admitted

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that it had paid more than $100 million for supplies that were never ever

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delivered because we do not have a truthful accounting of all the expenses

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we can assume that this number is much higher than that without a doubt at the

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same time the liberal government decided to close the border something it deemed

34:28

racist just a few weeks before they forced people to quarantine

34:33

in disgusting conditions all based on wrong information from AR arrives can

34:39

and unproven tests speaking of tests trudos Canada

34:46

was the last was among the last of the countries to understand the testing was

34:52

a key and to buy those tests we waited weeks and weeks before

34:58

getting what other countries had in February Global News revealed that and I

35:03

quote the Canadian government awarded two of the largest Medical Supply

35:09

contracts of the pandemic to importers participating in an invitation only

35:15

Federal program rather than to Canadian manufacturers offering lower prices it

35:22

also revealed that the contracts were awarded despite the government being given incomplete data about the products

35:30

accuracy the Liberals foolishly funded development of a vaccine the Canino in collaboration with

35:39

of all places China the vaccine was never

35:45

delivered they gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Liberal insiders to

35:50

develop a vacine at medic kle that they knew could never be approved since the

35:57

company was connected to a tobacco manufacturer they gave $130 million to

36:06

biologics manufacturing center to build a vaccine

36:11

plant do you know how many doses have been manufactured zero zero zero wow the

36:19

Liberals had to turn to foreign companies to provide vaccines they did so late so we were

36:26

behind other countries and the Liberals bought such massive numbers of vaccines

36:32

that the auditor general estimated that at least 50 million doses had to be

36:38

wasted 50 million doses how much did we waste we will

36:44

never know because the government is refusing to tell us because we overbought and overpaid

36:51

Canada was considered as the worst Global hoarder of vaccine doses frustrating poor

36:59

countries once they had the vaccines the Liberals decided that they would now they had the vaccines they would force

37:06

people to get vaccinated they forced vaccine mandates to people for whom it never made sense

37:14

such as public servants working from home or truck drivers working alone in

37:19

their trucks people with medical conditions that were warned by their doctors not to take them they pushed

37:26

vaccines many times to the detriment of those who were vaccinated Transport

37:31

Canada called its own vaccine mandate aggressive and unique in the world

37:37

courts have now found the mandates

37:42

unconstitutional finally to top it all off Justin trudel decided that he needed

37:49

the emergency act to put an end to the occupation of four or five city blocks

37:54

in Ottawa By Truckers truckers who look so so dangerous in their hot tubs on Wellington Street Canada was universally

38:02

mocked and Justin Trudeau looked like the Arrogant petulent brat that he

38:09

is co was an excuse for the Liberals to enrich their friends I will not get into all the

38:16

details of the contracts awarded at the time too many but the names we charity

38:21

and arri scam have become synonymous with liberal corruption

38:29

and did the government deliver in fighting Co let me summarize by reading some

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headlines Canada's nursing homes have the worst record for covid-19 deaths

38:41

among wealthy nations against CBC Canada doing one of the worst jobs

38:48

in the world in fighting covid radical lockdowns had

38:54

extraordinary costs last year the British medical journal

39:01

said that when Co struck Canada was IL an ill-prepared country with outdated

39:08

Data Systems poor Co coordination and cohesion and blindness about its

39:13

citizens diverse needs it was Canadians themselves who

39:18

should be commended for winning over covid as the journal concluded Canadians

39:25

delivered on the pandemic response while its government

39:31

faltered I could go on for several more minutes and go into details about the mismanage of the covid crisis by the

39:39

Liberals go on for weeks I probably could as usual with the Liberals you

39:45

have a mix of incompetence arrogance and Corruption that make them take bad

39:51

decision after bad decision I profoundly regret

39:57

that there was never a true inquiry or audit on what the government

40:02

did if it worked or not and how we can do better next time because colleagues

40:08

we have to do better next time we have to learn those lessons from all of those

40:14

liberal Sorcerers Apprentice mistake if the government made sure that

40:20

there would never be such an inquiry it is because they know they

40:26

failed and that they would learn too much we would learn too much about their

40:32

incompetence and their corruption the trudo Liberals failed on

40:37

how to deal with the health repercussions of covid they also failed on dealing with

40:43

the economic

40:50

repercussions when Co struck much of the world had to determine what Financial measure would be put into place to

40:57

address a global Health crisis we did not yet understand governments were forced to allocate tax

41:04

dollars to support measures to protect the livelihoods of their citizens and their overall economy with so much

41:11

uncertainty at the helm most countries proceeded in a restrained cautious and targeted

41:18

matter but not our prime minister our very own Sorcerers

41:23

Apprentice our government spending during the pandemic while initially described by some as generous quickly

41:30

spired out of control the data for this and the warnings from experts and financial

41:36

institutions were present from the beginning in November of 2020 the CABC

41:42

warned trudel that the majority of his emergency support handouts were being

41:48

spent on imported consumer goods and therefore leaking out of the economy to

41:53

other nations The Economist who penned the report noted that the leakage could

41:58

easily be fixed by focusing on programs that encourage consumers to spend on

42:04

local Services he also warned that if nothing is done Canada would have to spend even

42:11

more on fiscal support after all Canada had already outspent all of the G20

42:17

Nations on our pandemic response and as the CIBC report notes

42:23

this resulted in no additional benefit to employment or the GDP this advice was

42:31

ignored on March of 2021 statcan reported that Canadians experienced

42:37

extraordinary positive changes in their economic well-being during the pandemic as they gained thousands of dollars more

42:45

from covid-19 support payments than they lost in wages they reported in fact that

42:52

covid-19 benefits outpaced earning losses across all all

42:57

five income classes studied by statscan an economist at Scotia Bank

43:03

noted it underscores in a rough sense what the federal government did which was go big and go quick and

43:11

overshoot several economists and institutions warned the government that they needed to scale back their benefit

43:17

programs most notably the Serb program stating that it

43:22

was too generous and could be acting as a disincentive for people to re return

43:29

work these twoo were ignored in February of 2021 the

43:35

conference Board of Canada warned of the inescapable ramifications of record high debts amassed during the pandemic

43:43

stating the lasting impact on revenues and expenditures suggests that the

43:48

governments in Canada will struggle over the near and longer terms to dig

43:53

themselves out of this gigantic fiscal hole also in February of 2021 the

44:00

international monetary fund said that trudel lacked justification for a sizable spending plans and that any

44:08

additional unnecessary expenditures would weaken the credibility of the fiscal

44:14

framework on the same week a report from CD how Institute raised major concerns

44:20

about Trudeau's promised $100 billion in stimulus funds saying that it remained

44:26

unconvinced that a large stimulus package is appropriate at this

44:31

time despite the warnings our Apprentice carried on and the flooding

44:36

began in fact by early March of 2021 the tudo government had already blown past

44:43

the $6.3 billion estimate they declared that it would cost to run the Canada

44:49

recovery benefit and already nearly doubled the program spending to 11.1 $1

44:59

billion lest one be convinced that These Warnings from experts and major Banks did not make it across the prime

45:05

minister at desk please keep in mind colleagues that Justin Trudeau's very

45:11

own Finance Minister Bill morno who was tasked with the fiscal management of the

45:18

country and the rle out of these programs left one of the highest political offices in the country because

45:25

tudal spending had gotten so control in his book where too from here

45:32

a path to Canadian Prosperity morno wrote that he and Trudeau came to

45:37

loggerheads on the matter of covid spending he noted that during the pandemic calculations and

45:43

recommendations from the Ministry of Finance were disregarded in favor of quote winning a popularity

45:51

contest let me repeat that winning a popularity contest and and that his role

45:57

as Finance Minister and again I quote had deteriorated into serving as something

46:04

between a figurehead and a rubber stamp that's our prime

46:10

minister arts instructor snowboard instructor telling

46:16

an educated Finance Minister yet the Fraser Institute

46:21

pointed out that in 2021 Federal p

46:26

Federal per person debt reached a new record of

46:47

$48,990 340 in

46:53

2021 the fourth highest amount in Canadian history the authors conclude

47:01

clearly federal debt was already on an upward trajectory and the pandemic only

47:06

exacerbated the problem as it turns out every economic expert and financial

47:13

institution that warned of the disaster was correct a devastating inflation

47:19

appeared across Canada and for all products and services Canadians are still feeling the consequences the

47:26

former government of the Bank of Canada Steven PL said that the Trudeau government used a fire hose

47:33

approach and that a firefighter never gets criticized for using too much

47:38

water I beg to differ The Reckless policies of the Trudeau government in

47:43

fact flooded the Canadian economy with too much easy money they created the

47:48

inflation they created the inflation as trudel was warned our

47:54

floors were a wash with water and Trudeau continued to use the fire

48:00

hose long after the fire was put out the new governor of the bank of C Canada Tim

48:06

mckin confirmed that the government spending has gotten in the way of bringing down inflation as with

48:13

inflation remaining High the bank had no other option to raise than to raise

48:18

interest rates with devastating effects on businesses and

48:23

homeowners in March of 2023 the Deputy Governor of the Bank of

48:29

Canada confirmed that it had to go through the covid crisis again if it had to go through the co

48:35

crisis again the bank would not use the same strategy this Reckless spending was

48:41

motivated by the Liberals far-left thinking that every problem can be solved by more government

48:47

spending as I said for the Liberals these radical experiments are always done with an eye on the political

48:54

benefits Justin Trudeau thought thought he could surf on this wave of massive Co

49:00

spending and called an early election in 2021 he thought he could buy Canadians

49:06

with their own money and as always with the trudo government the negative effects of

49:12

radical policies combined with political cynicism were are compounded by the incompetence of this government the

49:20

programs were too generous but more than this it became an open bar last May the Canadian Canadian

49:27

Revenue Agency confirmed it had identified so far $10 billion of covid

49:33

payments to individuals who were ineligible under the government programs

49:38

hundreds of public servants has have already been fired from as appropriation of

49:44

funds this is an addition to the more than $15 billion identified by the AG

49:50

for another program and this was only after scratching the surface investigators in random checks uncovered

49:58

problems with almost 2third of the claims under the 100.6 billion doll

50:05

Canada emergency wave wage subsidy as auditor general Karen Hogan

50:13

said order General Karen Hogan the rate was so high it requires you to really

50:19

look more said Hogan you would think that the government would aggressively try to recover these massive payments

50:27

well you would be wrong that would be bad politics wouldn't it so the head of the Canadian

50:33

Revenue Agency said it was not worth the effort the PBO said that such an attitude is

50:40

disconcerting this colleagues is an understatement so not content with

50:45

having doubled the debt and created inflation our Sorcerer's Apprentice carries on with his

50:51

experiments and this will be my last one that I will speak about tonight colleagues

50:58

but trust me there will be more to come Senator Pete there will be more to come there's a lot to highlight with this one

51:04

of the darker and most glaring obvious examples of The Sorcerer's Apprentice is

51:10

Canada's outof control assisted suicide regime as is often the case with

51:17

slippery slopes it begins with a denial and mockery of its

51:23

existence in the case of assisted suicide the denial of the slippery slope was loud and strong both from the

51:31

Trudeau government and the Supreme Court yet it did not take long for the proverbial slope to come into view if

51:39

you consider where we began with the initial legalization of assisted suicide

51:44

and look to where we are now less than 10 years later it is nothing short of

51:51

shocking there were warnings from concerned experts and other jurisdictions that gone this route and

51:58

were currently living with the consequences in the Carter case there was evidence presented by a medical

52:04

expert from Belgium that a slippery slope was very possible specifically

52:10

that by opening the assisted suicide floodgates even in a narrow scheme in

52:16

which terminally ill people are offered help in ending their lives we would be opening the door to a system in which

52:23

vulnerable groups like the disabled are off offered death before they are

52:29

offered adequate care the court rejected this stating

52:34

that the permissive regime in Belgium is a product of a very different medical legal culture this assertion was adopted

52:42

and repeated by the tudo government who stated that we would avoid this expansion of Eligibility by setting up a

52:49

carefully regulated scheme that would keep its application quote narrow and

52:56

exceptional narrow and exceptional colleagues the number of Canadians

53:03

ending their lives through assisted suicide has grown at a speed that

53:09

outpaces every country in the world we are quickly very quickly

53:17

becoming the world's assisted suicide capital our most appalling reported

53:23

cases are even getting intern attention in just 6 years the number of

53:30

deaths from assisted suicide increased 13 fold from 1,8 deaths in

53:42

2016 let me repeat that 1,8 deaths to over

53:50

13, 200 in 2022 shocking shocking

53:57

shocking more Canadians die by euthanasia than from the liver disease

54:03

Alzheimer's diabetes or pneumonia in fact assista suicide is now effectively

54:09

tied as the fifth leading cause of death in our

54:14

country however the numbers from the government do not reflect that why when

54:20

completing the medical certificate of death Physicians are required to list the illness disease or

54:27

disability leading to the assisted suicide request as the cause of death

54:34

rather than the medications administered the actual cause this is a strange and suspicious

54:41

manipulation of the data as Barbara K asked if made is a

54:49

public good why the deflection if the astr astronomical

54:55

numbers are not enough to convince you that the government has lost control perhaps some of the circumstances

55:02

will a 54 year old woman living in Vancouver is one of more than 1.4

55:09

million Canadians with disabilities who live in poverty that colleagues is 40% of the

55:17

population because of the lack of adequate Services support her and her condition she has relied on credit card

55:24

to cover expenses and has amassed $40,000 in

55:30

debt because of a lack of research on her condition the treatments she is

55:35

seeking are considered experimental and therefore not covered by a healthc care

55:41

system however what is available to her she discovered is assisted

55:49

suicide after the expansion of our assisted suicide policies through C7

55:55

which enabled access to those for whom death is not reasonably foreseeable she

56:01

applied and was approved for assisted suicide her friend started a GoFundMe

56:08

page in a desperate attempt to keep her around for longer but they admit they do not know

56:15

if it will be enough she reported that assisted suicide will likely be her only

56:22

option A 54-year-old St Catherine's Ontario man named named air

56:28

farold applied for assisted suicide not because he wants to

56:34

die but because his social supports are failing him and he fears he may no have

56:40

no other choice he told reporters I don't want to die but I don't want to be

56:46

homeless more than I don't want to

56:52

die another disturbing case involved Christine GOI retired Corporal and

56:58

paralympian who had been seeking help for over 5 years to get a wheelchair ramp installed in an interview with CTV

57:05

GO shared her disbelief when the government could not accommodate her request but

57:12

instead instead our government colleagues offered her assisted

57:19

death this is our government she said in a heartbreaking

57:24

cult you're going to help me to die but you don't want to help me to

57:31

live this is our

57:36

government we have all heard of a number of cases of veterans being offered

57:42

assisted suicide to e ease their mental and physical suffering this is a group

57:49

that we are collectively every one of us in this chamber and in our country our

57:54

inde deted to who should be able to depend on a steady Network help ease

58:00

their transition back into civilian life yet workers under the system are

58:06

suggesting to them that their lives are not worth living this past summer a 31-year-old

58:13

woman Katherine mler went to Vancouver General Hospital in the midst of a mental health

58:19

crisis at the height of her suicidal vulnerability a clinician offered her

58:26

that there are long waits to see a psychiatrist and remark that our Health

58:31

Care system is broken and then asked her have you considered

58:38

maid healthc care professional a vulnerable suicidal patient asking for help to live and

58:46

instead is offered a way to

58:52

die that colleagues is the kind of case that is at risk of becoming a norm in

58:57

our country if the next phase of this slopy slip slippery slope comes to

59:03

fruition that is the proposed expansion of assisted suicide eligibility to

59:08

include those whose sole underlying condition is a medical a mental

59:16

disorder the policy that is so far beyond what our society or our system is

59:22

ready for or even willing to accept that the government in Al enacted a sunset

59:28

clause and has subsequently delayed it twice the repeated delays have resulted

59:34

in a lot of opportunity for debate and for raising the Myriad of moral and ethical concerns of offering death to

59:41

mentally ill and suicidal patients the Trudeau government and some

59:46

of their Senate appointees have repeatedly tried to draw a distinction between assisted suicide

59:53

requests and Sude suicided ility former Minister Justice Minister

59:59

David LTI when he was asked by journalist El araj about ensuring our

1:00:05

system actually offers people ethical choices replied and I quote remember that suicide generally is

1:00:14

available to people this is a group within the population who for physical reasons and

1:00:20

possibly mental reasons can't make that choice to do it themselves and

1:00:26

ultimately this provides a more humane way for them to make a decision they otherwise could have made if they were

1:00:33

able in some other way and uh some other way

1:00:41

unquote colleagues the best thing about David LTI is that he has resigned from

1:00:46

the tudo cabinet there is the admission as clear

1:00:51

as day the Trudeau government sees no problem with speeding up access to what

1:00:56

they call Humane form of suicide to depressed and suicidal

1:01:02

patients a Humane form of suicide as elaraj pondered is the

1:01:11

government not in the business of Suicide Prevention should we not be trying to give people a reason to

1:01:19

live you will have noticed colleagues that I do not use the term made to

1:01:24

describe what is at its core assisted suicide for me the use of the cold

1:01:32

acronym of made is part of the effort by some to detach it from reality to create

1:01:38

a different concept that is not pable the trajectory that the Trudeau

1:01:43

government is follow following reinforces the need to be clear very

1:01:49

clear about what we are talking about Dr son gained the highly esteemed form for

1:01:56

president of the Canadian Psychiatric association told the special joint parliamentary committee the expansion is

1:02:04

not so much a slippery slope as a runaway train the government has had

1:02:09

plenty of signs we should not be proceeding you

1:02:15

can choose to go ahead but you can't pretend that you weren't

1:02:21

warned the public outcry on the outrageous reported case of been profound and in reality is the real

1:02:29

reason the government has not moved forward with the expansion to date how has the government responded to this

1:02:35

growing public concern by improving access to Mental Health Care housing

1:02:40

affordability or service for veterans of course not in fact in each of these

1:02:47

measures our system has gotten worse people are feeling broken there has been

1:02:52

a substantial increase in depression and generalized anxiety disorders access to

1:02:58

Mental Health Care remains abysmal yet we have a government who is remaining steadfast in their support of opening up

1:03:05

the door to state sponsored suicide for Canadians with mental illness the

1:03:12

proponents know they have gone way too far the Canadian public does not want this the provinces and territories are

1:03:19

not ready for this and medical practitioners are not ready for this yet

1:03:25

the tudo government is not willing to reverse it they have made it clear that

1:03:30

by expanding access to assisted suicide to those suffering from mental illness is not a matter of if but of

1:03:38

when as Senator crer the original mover of this expand expansion amendment has

1:03:44

stated the issue is decided when it comes to policy I cannot

1:03:50

imagine a more fitting reflection of The Sorcerer's Apprentice metaphor than the trajectory of Canada's assisted suicide

1:03:57

regime from opening the door under the guise of the promise of a narrow and exceptional application to becoming the

1:04:05

assisted suicide capital of the world to now finding ourselves beholden to a

1:04:10

future policy so V that even its top proponents must continue to delay its

1:04:17

enactment not consider but simply put off colleagues I know you will be happy

1:04:24

with this statement this concludes the first part of my analysis

1:04:30

of the failed experiments of Justin trudel I invite all colleagues to stay

1:04:35

tuned for the rest but in the meantime I will adjourn the debate for the balance

1:04:41

of my time [Applause]