The Growing Problem of Terrorism Threats in Canada

In this solo episode I talk about the growing threat of terrorist attacks in Canada, how it relates to immigration and some of the predicted consequences.

Transcript

[00:00] Russell: Alright, folks, and we're back. Russell here with the canadian conservative podcast.

[00:04] Russell: Doing another solo episode just to talk briefly about a topic that I'm kind of getting a little bit worried about here. And that's the topic of the these apparent planned terrorist attacks in Canada. And now one that was planned to.

[00:24] Russell: Occur in the United States.

[00:27] Russell: And this actually ties back to the episode I put out a couple of.

[00:32] Russell: Days ago with Phil Oreilly talking about immigration to Canada.

[00:37] Russell: Now, Phil and I didn't talk in depth about this topic and the topic more concerning about the quality of people that are coming to Canada and the.

[00:50] Russell: Cultural, political and security ramifications of that.

[00:54] Russell: So as we've seen already, the government has brought in a record amount of immigrants. They just resettled a bunch of people from Gaza. And it just seems like even with.

[01:09] Russell: The restrictions that are going in place.

[01:11] Russell: That it's kind of been uncovered that a lot of these background checks and.

[01:16] Russell: That that are supposed to be done are not being done. So we're bringing people into Canada. We've only lightly screened them, if screened them at all.

[01:26] Russell: And some of the people that we.

[01:27] Russell: Brought in here are turning out not.

[01:30] Russell: To be the best people we want in Canada. For example, there was two people that came to Canada. One was involved in a terrorist organization overseas. They both got their canadian citizenship.

[01:46] Russell: They were plotting a terrorist attack in Canada.

[01:48] Russell: Luckily, we were able to intercept it.

[01:51] Russell: Just apparently days before they were planning.

[01:54] Russell: To launch this thing, which goes to.

[01:57] Russell: Show, at least, it seems that there's.

[01:59] Russell: Some law enforcement agency work that hasn't been completely corrupted or driven incompetent. But it's certainly extremely scary to think that these people were just a few.

[02:15] Russell: Days away from potentially causing a mass casualty event in this country.

[02:20] Russell: And they came in through the immigration process, or lack thereof. And now apparently there was someone that.

[02:30] Russell: Was plotting a terrorist attack in New.

[02:33] Russell: York who's been apprehended by the authorities now. And I think that's going to cause a lot more damage than people might think. Years ago, I was on a radio station talking about cross border relations in.

[02:50] Russell: Relation to an upcoming provincial election. And I remember I said something a little bit controversial.

[02:57] Russell: You know, me saying something controversial. No way. And I said that the US doesn't trust us, that they still think that we're harboring or that we're soft on terror. And that comes from experiences that I.

[03:14] Russell: Had crossing the border.

[03:15] Russell: You know, when I was young, very young, you crossed the border with your birth certificate and it was pretty friendly ordeal overall. But ever since 911 occurred, the cross.

[03:29] Russell: Border interactions became increasingly hostile.

[03:34] Russell: At first it was like you need.

[03:36] Russell: Like an enhanced driver's license.

[03:38] Russell: You could apply for that, things like that. Now you need your passport if you're going to go over the border now. And I think that just speaks to.

[03:46] Russell: The fact that the Americans don't trust us.

[03:48] Russell: The Americans don't think that we take.

[03:51] Russell: Issues very seriously when it comes to the screening and vetting of the people that are here.

[03:58] Russell: And like I said, this is going to have big implications on our ability.

[04:03] Russell: To cross over into the US and to other countries in the future.

[04:07] Russell: So, like, a canadian passport is a very, very powerful passport. When you have a canadian passport, there's.

[04:16] Russell: Very few visa restrictions.

[04:18] Russell: It's a pretty trusted document overall. But as more and more people come to Canada and we don't screen them and we give them a preferred pathway to citizenship, I worry that the canadian passport is going to lose a lot of that Integrity and Canada is going.

[04:39] Russell: To end up having to do more.

[04:41] Russell: And more visas, so special entry requirements.

[04:44] Russell: To go to other countries.

[04:46] Russell: And this is kind of like, you know, the advancement of Canada's. I hate to say it, but like a third world status almost, where our immigration and our ability to move across other borders is going to suffer greatly and Canadians are going to suffer for it as well. And it just means that we're just.

[05:11] Russell: Going to be less and less trusted.

[05:12] Russell: As time goes on. It's going to isolate Canada more and.

[05:16] Russell: It'S also going to continue to demoralize people.

[05:19] Russell: So I think that we got big issues, man.

[05:23] Russell: Do we ever have big issues.

[05:25] Russell: And we need to.

[05:27] Russell: We need to put some serious stop.

[05:29] Russell: Actions, you know, as quickly as possible. We have to radically clamp down on our vetting process of anyone coming into Canada because you got to remember, like, we got people coming in across the border as well. So we had Wroxham Road where people just showed up.

[05:52] Russell: They were detained by the police after.

[05:54] Russell: The police helped them take their luggage out of the car and were given.

[05:58] Russell: A summons to court and then just.

[05:59] Russell: Released into Canada because apparently we can't.

[06:02] Russell: Put up a fucking fence or anything.

[06:04] Russell: Because we're so fucking incompetent. It's just mind blowing to me that, you know, we're a country that, you know, we joined the war on terror and I mean, we can talk a lot about what that means and what that meant, but I, you know, the whole point was is that by us being in these other countries, we were.

[06:26] Russell: Going to help them build their infrastructure.

[06:28] Russell: Build their military, build democracy to these other countries which was going to in.

[06:34] Russell: Turn make our country more secure.

[06:36] Russell: Now, of course, we saw what happened.

[06:38] Russell: With the withdrawal of the us forces, leaving billions of dollars, equipment behind.

[06:44] Russell: And the rapid, basically all the terrorists.

[06:48] Russell: They said were defeated came out from the foothills and marched in and took right over.

[06:54] Russell: So yeah, real big win there, you know, in the famous, uh, Canada, just leaving people behind, leaving people that served as interpreters and served as our allies, leaving them behind to be subjected to.

[07:10] Russell: Horrors beyond our comprehension.

[07:13] Russell: So yeah, we're really scoring high in these categories of trust, of skill. We're really, we're really not scoring that high. That was a bit of sarcasm. So now we have these terrorist attack that need to be foiled before they occur. We got bomb threats going out to synagogues, we got all sorts of different stuff going on all across Canada. And it's like it's all just blown up. It's all literally, but it's all gone.

[07:49] Russell: Out of control here.

[07:50] Russell: And now we're trying to put the, we're trying to put the lid back on now, but it's too late. It's too late.

[08:00] Russell: It's like pandora's box.

[08:01] Russell: We've opened it and yeah, we might shut it now, but the horrors that.

[08:06] Russell: Were inside of are already gone.

[08:09] Russell: You know, we got eleven members of parliament at least that are compromised by foreign interference. We had chinese police stations operating next to MP's offices. And there's talk now that citizens were.

[08:29] Russell: Being harassed into voting a certain way.

[08:31] Russell: So like I folks, we're in a.

[08:33] Russell: Very, very compromised situation here.

[08:36] Russell: Like, this is like, you know, if you really look at it from, from a top down level here, like, it.

[08:44] Russell: Doesn'T look very good at all. And now the integrity of our passport.

[08:49] Russell: System is going to be taken into consideration. And unfortunately, through it all, all it's.

[08:56] Russell: Going to do is just lead to.

[08:57] Russell: More surveillance on people, more crackdowns on regular everyday people. The security state will continue to expand.

[09:07] Russell: And it will all be in the guise of safety. Even though the people that are expanding the security state themselves are the ones that created this situation for us to be in.

[09:17] Russell: And at this point, other than a radical turn, like you got to imagine.

[09:22] Russell: Like, we're a car on the highway.

[09:25] Russell: We'Re on fire, everything around us is burning and we got to get off this highway and we got to do it as soon as possible. So we got to make a rapid turn off this highway and we got to go figure things out because it's.

[09:43] Russell: Not getting better, it's getting worse.

[09:46] Russell: And I don't know, at this point, if we can even do that, if.

[09:50] Russell: We even have the ability anymore to.

[09:52] Russell: Make that turn, you know, it.

[09:55] Russell: And then you just look, and there's all these provincial and the federal election coming up, and everyone's just doubled and.

[10:00] Russell: Tripled down on all the b's on all the sides. And really it's just, it just seems like everything's just really spiraling out of control right now.

[10:13] Russell: And at some point or another, someone.

[10:16] Russell: Is going to have to hit the brakes. I don't know if it's going to have to be a city municipally, if it's going to have to be a province that's just going to completely turn their backs on the feds.

[10:30] Russell: But someone needs to have the political.

[10:32] Russell: Will somewhere to hit the brakes and right this ship before we sink right into the ground. And it's a big worry. It's, it really, it worries me a lot now. It's really been on my mind a lot. You know, those conflicts, people might say, well, you know, Ukraine so far away and Israel so far away. Yeah, we're in a, we're in a globalized world now.

[11:00] Russell: Those conflicts are not that far away anymore.

[11:03] Russell: They're really not. And as a country, we're going to.

[11:06] Russell: Have to make some real tough decisions.

[11:08] Russell: In the near future about how much globalization we really want to, how much globalization we really need, and what level of protectionism and nationalism is going to be required to ensure that we don't.

[11:26] Russell: End up completely compromised.

[11:28] Russell: So.

[11:29] Russell: Yeah, so these were just some thoughts.

[11:30] Russell: I kind of had. You know, I posted my interview with Phil O'Reilly talking about immigration, and we mostly talked about abuses in the TFW program, people working under the table, employers.

[11:44] Russell: Posting crazy job postings that make no.

[11:46] Russell: Sense to dissuade Canadians from applying for.

[11:51] Russell: Jobs or being eligible for work in certain jobs.

[11:54] Russell: And I think that, as I even.

[11:56] Russell: Said in that conversation, this is just.

[11:57] Russell: The beginning of the conversation.

[11:59] Russell: We could branch a million different ways.

[12:01] Russell: But this way here, talking about the.

[12:04] Russell: Security implications, has really, really come front and center since we had that conversation.

[12:10] Russell: And I think we're going to need.

[12:11] Russell: To have some more serious conversations about.

[12:14] Russell: This in the future, not only on podcasts and other independent media that's not completely compromised by the state, but just.

[12:23] Russell: In general having these conversations with our.

[12:25] Russell: Family and our friends and saying, like, we got to turn this around and.

[12:31] Russell: Maybe that needs to be the next political movement.

[12:33] Russell: I got no idea at this point, because at this point, I'll tell you.

[12:37] Russell: We'Re just like, we're a train with.

[12:38] Russell: No brakes at this point. And I don't know what the future is going to hold, but I guess.

[12:45] Russell: We'Re in for the ride whether we.

[12:46] Russell: Like it or not. All right, hope you have a great day, and I'll see you in the next episode.