Ezra Levant and former Canadian Armed Forces combat officer Philip Miller expose how Canada’s military, under Trudeau’s Liberals, has shifted from lethality to "woke" policies like tampon dispensers and "flip-flop Fridays," crippling recruitment while undermining meritocracy—seen in General Jenny Kerrigan’s controversial promotion. Miller links these changes to canceled NATO exercises and veterans’ struggles, including alleged PTSD-assisted suicide offers, though he notes complexities. Meanwhile, GC Strategies racked up $92.7M in federal contracts, including $3.6M from National Defense, with no oversight, despite Auditor General warnings—highlighting systemic cronyism and media conflicts of interest under Carney’s government. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, what a contrast between how the U.S. is reviving its military and how Canada is wrecking ours.
It's June 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
shame on you you sensorious bug oh hi everybody As you can see, I am out in the wilds of Ontario.
I'm not very far away in Ireland or some faraway place like that.
I'm in the heartland of Canada's biggest province because I am talking with the Amish.
Again, the Amish, as you know, are an old-fashioned Christian community.
They do not use electricity or electronics or even cars.
And so that makes them vulnerable when the government comes to attack them, as they did during COVID.
I'm on location filming an update on the Amish battle, which is why I'm not in the studio today.
But yesterday, before I left town to come here to the Amish, I recorded an extended interview with someone I'd never met before.
He's a former combat officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.
He's a lawyer, and I think he's a great commentator.
He's with a sense of humor.
So without further ado, let me present to you our feature interview.
And I'll be back in the studio tomorrow with my report from Amish country.
No more distractions.
No more electric tanks.
No more gender confusion.
No more climate change worship.
We are laser focused on our mission of warfighting.
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
It's called peace through strength.
You look into the eyes of these young Americans who are giving up the best years of their life in a uniform to serve their nation.
They are incredible.
Through our power and might, we will lead the world to peace.
Our friends will respect us.
Our enemies will fear us.
And the whole world will admire the unrivaled greatness of the United States military.
We'll replenish the pride of our armed forces, end the recruitment crisis.
We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us.
We fight because we love what's behind us.
God bless you.
God bless our armed forces.
God bless our men and women serving overseas.
And God bless the United States of America.
Well, I suppose most military ads are somewhat inspirational, but you can see this was getting away from those collateral missions of gender equity and pronouns and getting back to the basic business of lethality.
Compare that new tone.
And by the way, I hear that recruitment in the U.S. military is dramatically up.
Well, let me show you a video I stumbled across.
The algorithm sent it my way.
I saw this on TikTok.
Here is a former combat officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, who is a lawyer as well.
And he talks about something I didn't know was going on in the Canadian Armed Forces called flip-flop Fridays.
Take a look.
We'll watch for a minute.
Here's a way to know your military is in a crisis: it's when they have something called flip-flop Fridays.
So the general of the Canadian Armed Forces determined that it was somewhat triggering to have to wear combat uniforms five days a week.
So they started casual Fridays.
Not of the civilians, but of the serving apparent warfighters now have casual Fridays, but what is now being called in Ottawa flip-flop Fridays.
So what I want to suggest is some other days for the military to reduce the triggering element that warriors can get by having to wear combat uniforms.
I think we should have misgender me Mondays, which means you should have four name tags on your combat uniform.
And if somebody misgenders you, you should immediately lose your shit and start yelling at people.
And then maybe trigger Tuesdays.
Maybe Tuesdays, you should just go through the military and just look for a reason to be triggered and then write that and tell your boss about it.
There's obviously woke Wednesdays.
Maybe on woke Wednesdays, everybody should dye their hair, get a couple extra piercings.
What I'm saying is when the Canadian Armed Forces doesn't allow the use of warrior and has flip-flop Fridays and is wondering why we can't recruit new people to the military, they might want to take a look south of the border.
Because whether or not you want to feel morally superior to Trump or the U.S., the reality is that their military's recruiting has gone through the roof.
Their retention has improved dramatically.
Why?
Because they're focusing on lethality and a warrior culture.
That's what attracts people to your military.
They know their target audience.
The Canadian Armed Forces has become a social policy tool to try to influence how people see the world rather than focusing on defending this nation to protect our citizens from enemies of this.
Well, there he is.
Philip Miller.
I thought some of the things he was talking about there were jokes, but they are not jokes.
And we know that they wouldn't be jokes because this is the Canadian Armed Forces that installed tampon dispensers in men's washrooms across military bases in this country.
Joining us now, Bioskype is that rogue lawyer, as he calls himself, Philip Miller.
Philip, thanks very much for taking the time to be with us.
Sorry, Ezra.
I thought that was great.
I thought it was very funny.
And at first, I thought you were kidding.
I didn't know your background.
And so I said, well, who's this guy talking about, you know, casual Fridays in the military?
And not for the, you know, the civilian staff, for the actual soldiers.
Tell me more about that.
Let me just confirm.
Is that a real thing?
Do our military, like actual combat troops, have casual Fridays in the Canadian Armed Forces?
I don't want to disclose my sources, but I was called by somebody who went up to Ottawa senior, and he was a combat guy, and he was losing his crap because people were walking around in shorts and he was asking about it.
And they said that they instituted a policy for soldiers, sailors, and air staff to have a casual Friday.
And, you know, he saw some of the flip-flops.
He called me and goes, I can't talk about it.
Can you do a video?
So I did a video on it.
I also did a video about going up to my old base in Pettawawa and seeing what used to be a hardcore base of trigger pullers look like something out of Star Wars Cantana.
So I've kind of taken it quite personally that social policy is trumping lethality right now.
The triggered Tuesdays, the misgender me Mondays, that's all me just doing a little license there.
But I thought it certainly caught with a bunch of people.
Now, who is behind this?
Is this from within the military?
Is this a direction from the government?
Because I've got to think that, I mean, I suppose it's like the police forces.
The brass know that to get ahead, you've got to be woke.
But at the end of the day, it's a killing business.
Or as Trump alluded to in his ad, hopefully you're strong enough to deter violence.
Who's behind this?
You know, it's the cadre from the liberal government.
And, you know, I've never been that political, but I've just seen what it's done to the military.
There is a liberal government that came from Trudeau to push social policy onto the department they considered the most toxic masculine department.
And so it's a beautiful target for them to show how powerful they are by essentially attacking toxic masculinity and all of the things that are characteristic of a fighting force that can get the job done.
It's not to say there's not room for diversity in the military, but I almost get the sense they're laughing at how ridiculous they're making the military in terms of just non-stop virtue signaling, rainbow flags, tampons everywhere, and nonsensical things that just make warfighters want to run away from this organization.
And then they can't figure out why recruiting isn't up.
It's because Starbucks baristas don't want to go live in a trench or go into a jungle or jump out of a plane.
Like there's a cognitive dissonance that is affecting Canada to the detriment of our national security.
I think you're on to something there.
I think of other masculine institutions where masculine traits were deliberately attacked.
I think of the NFL.
I think of NASCAR.
I think of Bud Light, how they were colonized and emasculated from within, which was very disoriented to guys who just like to watch some football or like to watch some hockey.
And I mean, I don't know how those are working out commercially for those sports franchises.
In a way, I don't care what they do.
But the military is something that, you know, we actually need it.
We rely on it.
And those traits that are considered too masculine, that's precisely what we need in our military because the other guys' military are testosterone-driven, it's based on strength and strategy, not, you know, feelings and, you know, consensus building.
Tell me about the new boss of the military.
What's her name?
General Jenny Kerrigan, French Canadian lady.
But the interesting thing is she ran a department, moved through the ranks very quickly, but ran a department called the Office of Protocol and Professional Standards, which seems somewhat Stalinistic.
And it was created under Trudeau to kind of police, I think, thought and behavior in the military because they became very concerned with not wanting scandals.
What's factually true is when they kind of destroyed the careers of four or five of our top generals based on allegations alone, she was well below them.
But she was also in this department that was in charge of reporting on people, almost like a Politburo.
And as each of them got canceled and moved away, she moved up the ranks and became the chief of defense staff.
And, you know, interestingly enough, something that I'm sensitive to is it cost about 30 million bucks in three decades to make a general.
And if you wanted to destabilize Canada and you were one of our adversaries, all you had to do was have somebody make an allegation against a general and they were fired and removed from the Canadian Armed Forces structure permanently.
And what we've seen is five generals, absolute careers destroyed.
And I represented one of them on allegations alone.
None of them actually turned out to be supportable in court.
And we just saw a complete transformation of the leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces.
And everybody who is in there now has gotten the message to play ball or your career is over.
And they're literally, it's sad to say, a bunch of terrified senior officers there that privately lament for how bad the military is, but publicly can't say anything and have to look obedient.
You know, one thing I used to look at was, I think it's called Operation Maple Flag, if I'm remembering.
It was the sort of the top gun exercises in Cold Lake, Alberta, where Canada invited air forces from across NATO to compete.
And then suddenly a few years ago, they said, oh, we're putting it on hold for, they came up with some weird word, like logistical reasons or something, but they never started it up again.
And my theory was that we just simply didn't have the hardware, didn't have enough working planes that could go shoulder to shoulder with the F-22s and F-35s and whatever else our allies were flying, that it was a combination of lack of money, lack of equipment, and maybe even lack of people.
But they certainly have time for these Me Too exercises or these diversity exercises.
Do you know anything about Maple Flag and the cancellation of it?
I don't know anything about Maple Flag being a grunt infantry airborne officer.
But what I do know is that the military is the one place where merit means more than anything.
And they've actually kind of gone on a campaign against meritocracy.
And that's actually what's kind of, I think, characterizing our society right now, especially from the liberal government, is to attack merit-based selection so that we can promote communities that look the way they want them to look.
But when it comes to going into battle, what I always found about the military, even when I got out into law, is it had some issues, but generally it was fairly fair because what I cared about is could you cover my six, not who you were sleeping with, not where you were from.
It's just we wanted to survive and we wanted to do the mission.
And I thought it was a very positive place.
It had room for improvement, but it has just been infected by that woke mind virus.
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And everybody will tell you that privately unless they are trying to get a promotion echoing what the government wants them to say.
It is an organization that is in a spiral and cannot do anything.
And it doesn't matter how many elbows up t-shirts you sell.
I don't know if any blue-haired baristas are going to protect Canada when push comes to shove.
Well, and that's the thing is when you reduce the standards of do you have, you know, how do you dress?
How do you groom yourself?
There are standards for being in the military and hiring some they them baristas, maybe check some boxes.
But how many of those folks want to be in the military?
If you are obsessed with social justice, progressive sexuality, let's say, are you even oriented towards being in the military?
I don't know.
I mean, maybe there are a lot of trans people who say, I want to drive a tank and I want to fly a jet, but I just don't see it as part of the same worldview.
There's going to be some, and people should be welcomed in based on performance.
You know, the problem is recruiting is at a critical low level.
Nobody is talking about the actual numbers, you know, and nobody is allowed to say what's true.
Like, we're in this alternate universe where people are pretending everything is okay, and nobody will tell the emperor they have no clothes because you just get fired.
Let me ask you about the new announcement by Mark Carney of beefing up the armed forces.
I mean, I've heard the Liberal Party say, you know, say everything and anything on this.
And historically, they have been a laggard based on the amount of our GDP spent on the military.
What do you make of Mark Carney's latest statement that he's actually going to fast forward the spending and catch up?
Do you believe it?
I think I have an interesting angle here because I've taken some flock because I've suggested that Trump's a good negotiator and told some delicate flowers not to freak out at what he says.
Carney has an internal audience in Canada and an external audience.
Trump essentially said: NATO has to spend 2% members or else you're going to have problems.
Carney was going to do it by 2030.
Now, all of a sudden, he's doing it this year.
He wants Canadians to think it's because he's trying to protect us from Trump.
Really, what he's doing, he's doing what he's been told by Trump.
Trump said, do 2% spending or else.
He said, I'd do it by 2030, and all of a sudden, we're doing it now.
But now he has to sell it to the Canadians by pretending that France is going to come and save us if we get into a sovereignty battle in our Arctic.
It's pure cognitive dissonance.
Yeah.
I mean, the U.S. military is so far ahead of all the others.
And I think even watching the Ukraine-Russia war, the successes Ukraine has had of being with American weapons.
And the Russians, although I certainly don't want to shortchange their power just in terms of sheer mass and artillery, and I think they certainly made advances in drone warfare.
I think the U.S. military is so far ahead qualitative, quantitatively, training.
Who else could be there in the Arctic?
I thought it was sort of embarrassing that we couldn't shoot down that Chinese hot air balloon.
It waited until it went over U.S. airspace.
I mean, that was sort of embarrassing.
I don't know who spotted it first, a Canadian or an American, but it wasn't.
It flew over Canada too.
Didn't get shot down until it went over the States.
Like, I've been in training in a lot of NATO exercises, and Canadian soldiers, sailors, and aviators are some of the best in the world when they're trained the way we know how to be trained.
And during Afghanistan, universally respected and loved.
But at the present moment, when the military loses the ability to produce, you know, vigorous, dynamic, brave leaders, like you can't operate in a war zone.
And right now, our leaders are just terrified of doing anything that looks like it's aggression, which runs counter to everything about the military.
We have to promote people who are ready to close with and destroy the enemy, take a bullet for their brothers and sisters, and get the job done.
And what we have now is a completely dysfunctional force that's just played.
Like people, in some of the lawsuits I've been doing, I've seen how close the liberal government is through the assistant deputy ministers in affecting the operational decisions of the Canadian Armed Forces.
People have no idea how much the political people are pulling the levers of power of the CAF.
It's supposed to be separate, but when it comes to training and political agendas, they are absolutely hamstrung by the Liberal government.
And we need somebody to come in and reinvigorate the military, much like what is happening in the States, but they're not learning from nothing.
Are there Canadians, young men in Canada who are choosing to go to the States to join the American Army, which I understand is you can do because they're excited by the new focus in the U.S.
They know they're going to get the best training, the best equipment, and possibly more dough.
Have you heard of that?
Have you seen that?
Just like sometimes police leave a defund the police jurisdiction and go somewhere where they're better paid and better loved.
Is that happening with soldiers?
Interesting.
That would be an interesting move by the U.S. administration to get some high because Canadians are tough, tough bastards.
Like, you know, they are really great soldiers, you know, especially the rural ones who grow up, you know what I mean, in rural Canada, learning how to work outdoors, learning how to deal with environmental toughness.
So that would be, I know, First Nations people can go and join the Marines.
A lot of them do.
I haven't heard many from the Canadian military, but I imagine, you know, some of the people, some of the amazing soldiers that were kicked out because of the vaccine mandate, you know, may be exploring that.
And I was really disappointed.
I love that the U.S. administration brought people back in who were kicked out.
We lost some of our best trained and most experienced warriors to that vaccine mandate because guys and girls who had COVID and didn't want to get the vaccine were kicked out illegally, it turns out, and nobody seems to care.
Right.
You know, when you're talking about Indigenous, I understand a lot of mohawks from Ontario and Quebec.
There's a real tradition, almost one generation to the next, of going to join the Marine Corps.
And that's exactly what I was thinking of.
In that case, it's sort of a family tradition almost.
And I was wondering if that was spreading.
A few years ago, I read in a sort of on-base newsletter that they had a food hamper program for soldiers, a food bank for actual soldiers, not for homeless people, but apparently soldiers were not paid enough to make ends meet, so they raised food.
So we crowdfunded a bunch of dough and we went to the military and they refused to accept it and they rejected it and we didn't access information and they were, it was anything to save face.
I was shocked that they weren't even paying soldiers enough to eat properly.
That's that's the takeaway there.
Is that a problem still?
Are soldiers actually that poorly paid in 2025?
I don't know what they're actually paid in 2025.
I know that, you know, when I took my son up to Fettawawa, I showed him the house I bought when I was 26 and he's 23 and he goes, Dad, nobody I know in their 20s think they could ever buy a house again.
So I don't know.
You know, I think the Canadian military is one of the better paid militaries.
Obviously, it's not perfect.
But when I see it in comparison to other armies, I don't think it's the benefits that's the issue.
I think it's the culture that makes people want to stay and join and serve their country.
Yeah.
Well, and I think you're right.
I think in the States, it's always been like it's permeated society.
You go to an amusement park, you go on an airplane, and they always recognize people serving.
If you're in uniform, you get to line up first.
Like it's really trickled into all parts of society.
There's a standard phrase, thank you for your service.
It's sort of the whole set of manners and social encouragement for people who serve.
It almost, it's like a secular, I'm not going to say religion, but it's a universal belief that if you've put on a uniform and served, you are a morally upstanding person that everyone else owes a debt to.
That's not here in Canada.
I've never seen a business say, come, people in uniform get 5% off, or people in uniform line up first for anything.
And I don't know how you turn that switch on.
I think that's something that's built up over generations.
I don't know if Canada ever had that.
We probably did coming out of the Second World War.
What I loved about Canada in a way is the guys and girls who are like the real deal warfighters, they don't want to be recognized at hockey games.
They don't want to be accoutrements for kind of people to casually recognize.
They just want to serve their country with that kind of quiet professionalism Canada is known for.
But they're not going to serve if they're going into an organization that's a corporate woke organization.
Like they want to be put through challenge.
They want to feel proud.
Like we, the beauty of Canada, we get way less medals than Americans.
Like if you look at American, they have a chest full of medals.
They get a medal for going to the bathroom on Sunday, right?
Like they really have hyper, you know, they've done a lot on that.
In Canada, you really earn your medal.
And we've always had a proud tradition of stepping up when called, but I've never seen more destruction to the military than the last 10 years under the liberal government.
I don't say that politically.
I just say objectively, they have destroyed warfighting capability for social desirability.
I want to ask you one last question.
You've been very generous with your time.
Thank you for that.
And just for our viewers, we're catching you right after court because you are a practicing lawyer as well as a former combat officer.
One thing I've heard, and we've followed this, is that Canadian veterans, some of whom have PTSD, especially those who served in Afghanistan, they have on multiple occasions been told by Veterans Affairs that they could have assisted suicide as their remedy.
And I know this was disputed and denied, but it's just been reported so many times.
And with proof of it, it's a very troubling trend.
Now, I haven't seen reports of that lately.
Do you know if that is still happening on the veteran side of things?
I find that so, you know, shocking and demoralizing.
And I can only imagine being a veteran who reaches out for help and being told to kill yourself.
Is that going on anymore?
You know, I don't know if this is popular with all audiences.
I haven't seen it that much.
I've heard it being talked about and I think it's out there.
You know, the issue we deal with in society is I've found Veterans Affairs to be generally good, but, you know, you can never say no to a veteran without being attacked on one level, right?
And then there's levels of veterans, right?
A lot of the people who were blown up or had done stuff, they don't want to complain, but then you can get a thousand veteran claims for running over a goat somewhere.
Or the newest big drain is to say I was sexually assaulted 15 years ago and you get a fixed-figure check.
So there's tons of people that always be angry at it.
I think case by case, you have to look at it.
But I've definitely heard that that made program has been offered, but I don't know the context.
And I've never been hired by somebody in that regard.
It's disturbing at any level to encourage a vet to do that.
But I know there are a lot of vets out there struggling just because what they went through was horrific.
Well, Listen, I'm really grateful to you for jamming us in your schedule, especially in between court hearings.
I really liked your TikTok channel, which I just stumbled across.
I guess the algorithm sent you my way.
I'd like to encourage my viewers to follow you.
Not a lot of my folks are on TikTok, but if you are, follow Philip at Rogue Lawyer.
That's also the name of his YouTube channel, The Rogue Lawyer.
And on Twitter, or X, as it's now called, Philip Miller, P-H-I-L-L-I-P-M-I-L-L-A-R.
It's really nice to meet you.
And I appreciated your sense of humor on that TikTok vid, but obviously you're a guy with a lot of serious thoughts, too.
I hope we can keep in touch.
And if there's any issues or court cases or battles that you see, don't be shy to bring them to our attention.
I don't have as many military contacts as I'd like to.
And if you represent grassroots guys trying to make the Army stronger, we're all ears for that.
We're at your service.
Ezra, I love your channel.
I've represented William Warrant Officer Topped, the guy who walked across Canada and I think who got the mandates gone.
And I'm currently representing the third highest general taking on a liberal government for what they did to him.
So I'll reach out anytime I got some news for you, my friend.
Yeah, well, I'm really glad to hear that.
And thank you.
I didn't know you worked on those two cases, but it's good to hear.
Well, it's great to spend some time with you and keep up the fight.
Cheers, Bob.
Right on.
There he is.
Philip Miller, who is on Twitter at Philip Miller, double L. end that's an ar at the end it's crony contracting zero oversight fake competition and the cherry on top the chef's kiss The CBC reported on it like it was someone else's scandal.
Spoiler alert, it was a CBC scandal, too.
Mr. Firth said today that he was completely unaware of connections between Von Brennan and senior liberal staffer Jeremy Broadhurst, completely unaware of connections to senior liberals.
But Mr. Firth received a text on February 1st, 2021 that was subsequently reported in the Globe and Mail that specifically described the involvement at the Deputy Prime Minister's office where Broadhurst was chief of staff.
Does Mr. Firth want to correct his earlier response?
Mr. Firth.
Mr. Speaker, I have no knowledge.
I cannot remember sending that text message.
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Let's talk about GC strategies owned by Christian Firth and Darren Anthony, a firm you've probably heard of if you've been following the ArriveCan fiasco.
That's the infamous pandemic surveillance app that wrongfully sent 10,000 people to quarantine under threats of $5,000 in fines.
The report identifies that there were 10,000 Canadians falsely, inappropriately sent into quarantine by one out of the 177 versions of the app.
What is the total number of people who were sent into quarantine by this app who shouldn't have been?
Thank you.
What are you doing?
10,200 were given a false notification that they should have been quarantined when they weren't actually needed to be quarantined.
The one that cost taxpayers over $60 million for something that was replicated for a fraction of that over a weekend by tech bros to prove a point.
Yeah, GC strategies helped rake in that cash.
But as it turns out, ArriveCan was just the beginning of the GC strategies scandal.
The procurement watchdog found numerous examples where GC strategies, quote, had simply copied and pasted, end quote, information to prove the people GC strategies found to do work on ArriveCan actually did it.
Question: Has the government asked GC strategies to repay the money paid to GC strategies for ArriveCan?
Mr. Firth.
Mr. Speaker, the numbers that were provided by the Obunsman from Public Works, we found were inaccurate when we did our assessments.
And secondly, we have not been asked to pay any money back.
According to the Auditor General's new report, this two-man IT firm, yes, literally two guys, no office, no staff, no infrastructure, secured 106 federal contracts worth up to $92.7 million from 2015 to 2024.
How much of your money has already been handed over to these two?
$64.5 million.
Let me break it down.
The AG looked at 31 federal organizations, and here's what she found.
In 82% of sole-sourced or single-bid contracts, departments didn't even check to see if the prices were remotely fair.
They just paid whatever GC Strategies was asking.
In 21% of those contracts, there was no evidence that subcontractors had the required security clearances despite working on sensitive government systems.
Remember this one when we get to the defense contracts.
And the government pulled a classic bureaucratic trick.
It split the contracts for the same project into low-value chunks under $25,000 to dodge procurement rules.
That happened at least 87 times.
This wasn't some back office clerical error.
It was a systemic failure of the rules, either ignored or deliberately bypassed.
The Treasury Board Secretariat paid them $10 million.
Innovation, science, and economic development, also nearly $10 million.
And here's the one I told you to remember.
National Defense paid this two-man firm $3.6 million.
And remember, their subcontractors frequently didn't have the proper security clearance to be working on the files that they were working on.
And here's the one that I found most interesting when I looked at the coverage from the other news media on the AGs report.
Even the CBC got in on it, cutting a check for $12,000 to GC Strategies.
The CBC spent months reporting on the GC strategies and ArriveCan scandals.
They wrote headlines.
They covered parliamentary hearings.
They wagged their taxpayer-funded finger at government mismanagement.
And they never disclosed, not once, that they themselves were a client of GC Strategies.
That $12,000 contract, never mentioned.
It only came out now, thanks to the Auditor General's report.
That's not journalism.
That's hiding a conflict of interest.
Imagine Rebel News doing a report on a company that we hired, but never telling you about it.
We'd be tarred and feathered, but the CBC, they get a pass and about $1.5 billion a year to keep pretending like they're impartial.
And honestly, the CBC's biggest conflict of interest is the most obvious one.
You can't take government money and then report on the government.
Let's sum it up.
A tiny firm got $93 million in contracts.
Federal departments ignored rules more than eight times out of 10.
Security standards were just thrown out the window.
There were no fraud detection systems, no digital procurement platform, even after billions in spending.
And the state broadcaster was part of the mess and stayed silent on it.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Firth just admitted that the RCMP raided his house relative to Botler AI.
When Mr. Firth introduced Botler AI to his consultant colleague, Mr. Von Brennan, he had them email Mr. Jeremy Broadhurst, the former chief of staff for the Minister of Finance and the current Liberal campaign chair.
Did Mr. Brennan regularly set up Mr. Firth's contacts with elected officials, ministers, and their chiefs of staff?
Mr. Firth.
Mr. Speaker, that's news to me.
I've never engaged Von Brennan to get any meetings with senior government officials.
This is what government accountability looks like under Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Unchecked spending, zero transparency, and media protection from the state-run press and those involved still sitting in his cabinet or working in his bureaucracy.