Greg Wycliffe - June 15, 2022


Why Marco Mendocino Resigning wouldn't mean anything

Topics
Marco Mendicino resignation
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Greg Wycliffe
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Marco Mendicino Jody Wilson-Raybould Jeremy McKenzie Justin Trudeau Bill Morneau Jerry Butts
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2 minutes

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Word count

475

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28

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3

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In this episode, I talk about the Canadian politician Marco Mendocino, and why he should resign for calling a state of emergency during the largest anti-vaccination protest in Canadian history in Ottawa, Canada. I also talk about how Canadian politics is a joke.

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00:00:00.000 Canadian politics is a joke. If Marco Mendocino misled parliament, he has to go.
00:00:05.820 For the sake of his integrity, Marco Mendocino should resign.
00:00:10.100 For those who don't know, Marco Mendocino is the Canadian Minister of Public Safety.
00:00:14.180 Because he holds this position, he is the one responsible for calling the state of emergency
00:00:18.860 during the trucker convoy freedom protest in Ottawa.
00:00:22.000 Was using the War Measures Act during this protest uncalled for?
00:00:27.420 Absolutely it was.
00:00:28.860 But what we're seeing right now is the political establishment back, back, b-b-b-backpedaling
00:00:34.340 and saying, oh my god, Marco Mendocino, how could have you called the emergency?
00:00:42.060 Are you guys kidding me? Are you guys kidding me?
00:00:46.420 All the Canadian news media was talking about was how horrible this protest was.
00:00:51.580 We need to do something about it.
00:00:53.560 All Justin Trudeau was saying is, we need to do something about these people.
00:00:57.140 What are we going to do?
00:00:58.080 The entire Canadian establishment supported the emergency measures when it happened.
00:01:04.300 Bank accounts being frozen, people being arrested, and nothing but fear-mongering on TV. 0.99
00:01:08.340 But now, in the aftermath, where the Canadian establishment looks like idiots because there 0.99
00:01:14.620 was no violence whatsoever at this protest, they are backpedaling and saying, oh, no, we 0.99
00:01:21.900 didn't want to call an emergency, that wasn't us, that was just this guy.
00:01:26.520 The only incompetence, the only ignorance in this entire political establishment, not in
00:01:34.280 the media, not anywhere in the Liberal Party, no, it's just Marco Mendocino.
00:01:39.060 He is the only one who's messed up here.
00:01:41.700 To give you an idea, we had Canadian senators talking about Diagalon, which is a meme country
00:01:49.160 invented by a veteran podcaster friend of mine, Jeremy McKenzie.
00:01:53.960 They were blaming the emergency on a meme country.
00:01:56.800 And now, they are trying to pin all of the blame, all of the incompetence and ignorance
00:02:03.320 and corruption on this one Liberal minister.
00:02:06.520 And it's not the first time they've done this.
00:02:08.560 They did this with SNC-Lavalin by blaming it on Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:02:12.140 And Jerry Butts resigned after SNC-Lavalin as if the corruption was now dealt with.
00:02:16.820 And then with the We Charity scandal, they pinned everything on Bill Morneau, who resigned.
00:02:22.680 Because so many sleepy Canadians barely even pay attention and just listen to their CBC,
00:02:27.900 they think, oh, I guess someone resigned, so I guess we got rid of the corruption and
00:02:33.440 everything.
00:02:33.820 The corruption's gone.
00:02:34.980 Oh, good.
00:02:35.980 The incompetence is gone in the Canadian Parliament.
00:02:38.420 We have a prime minister who said, do we tolerate these people in regards to the unvaccinated, 1.00
00:02:43.280 and said, everyone who protested at the largest protest in Canadian history has unacceptable
00:02:48.620 views.
00:02:49.380 And along with that, we had many people in the Canadian media vilifying this group of
00:02:54.680 people.
00:02:55.040 And now they're acting like their authoritarian actions have nothing to do with them.