Juno News - January 10, 2021


A wild week to start off 2021


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

138.59003

Word Count

614

Sentence Count

44


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What a momentous week in the news. Let's talk about a few of the items of
00:00:10.440 interest. Let's start south of the border. On Wednesday, an out-of-control mob
00:00:17.120 attacked the US Capitol in Washington DC. What was striking to me is how quickly
00:00:24.000 they're able to breach the perimeter and gain access inside including to areas
00:00:29.240 such as the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Senate chamber itself. It's
00:00:35.720 hard for me to imagine that in this day and age a building of the importance of
00:00:40.640 the Capitol was breached so easily. Video showed a breach on the ground floor
00:00:46.580 window that was just glass. Any security expert worth their salt would target
00:00:52.880 harden any ground floor windows with Lexan or plexiglass. Not to have done so
00:00:58.040 seems highly irresponsible. Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund tendered his
00:01:04.280 resignation in the wake of the mess in Congress and that is as it should be.
00:01:09.500 The Capitol Police failed to secure the seat of government in the United States. A
00:01:14.420 stunning failure. Meanwhile, closer to home. The Prime Minister seemed to tease
00:01:21.920 about a surprise election call sometime this year. The impetus seems to be the
00:01:27.320 Prime Minister's plan to triple the carbon tax from its current $30 per tonne to a
00:01:33.680 whopping $170 per tonne by 2030. He then chided the opposition by saying they'd have
00:01:40.340 a chance to fight over the issue on the Hustings long before that happens, seemingly
00:01:45.620 daring them to challenge him. Considering that Justin Trudeau has increased taxes on
00:01:50.780 Canadians every year since he took office in 2015, that is not usually a winner for a
00:01:57.620 politician. But Trudeau seems inured to public opinion and certainly to the
00:02:03.380 protestations of the opposition. He has, for all intents and purposes, shut down
00:02:09.560 Parliament, eliminating any debate which might be critical of him or his government.
00:02:14.120 Remember when we used to be a democracy? Yet Trudeau only has a minority
00:02:20.000 government after last year's election. One might have thought that would rein him
00:02:25.040 in and he might just listen to the opinions of the population. That is
00:02:30.680 certainly not the case. Will he call a snap election? An interesting question.
00:02:37.160 Certainly he wants a majority government, but does he take the risk? The
00:02:43.700 Fraser Institute just released their Canadian Consumer Tax Index for 2020. The
00:02:50.000 tax burden on Canadians is higher than ever before. We are spending 42.6 of our
00:02:56.000 total income on taxes in Justin Trudeau's Canada. That compares to 36.2% of
00:03:02.780 income on housing, food and clothing. Not a sort of platform I would want to fight an
00:03:08.840 election upon. Finally, there is the blatant censorship of conservative
00:03:14.240 speech by big tech. Yesterday, Twitter permanently closed the account of the
00:03:19.520 President of the United States, which has been his primary method of
00:03:23.420 communication with the American people. But it didn't end there. The social media
00:03:28.820 platform Parley is under attack by Google, who are threatening to delist the app from their
00:03:35.120 search engines and app store. Trump had 88 million followers and had tweeted over
00:03:43.280 57,000 times since assuming the office of the presidency. He received over 74 million
00:03:50.180 votes in the November election. Twitter has just given the finger to half the
00:03:55.400 country. But it's not just in the US. It is universal. In the True North world alone in
00:04:03.000 the past 24 hours, Twitter has eliminated over 300 followers from me. The True North
00:04:09.060 account is down about 1,000 followers, as is Andrew Lawton. And make no mistake, if it
00:04:15.540 can happen to Donald Trump, it can happen to you or anyone, for that matter. That is a
00:04:21.600 frightening situation. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.