Juno News - September 03, 2025


Alexander Brown tears into Ontario Premier Doug Ford for his theatrical press conference stunt


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

139.28183

Word count

256

Sentence count

8


Summary

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The Crown Royal Whisky plant in Gimli, Manitoba is leaving for the U.S. because people are drinking less. Doug Ford thinks it's a great moment to pour out a bottle of Crown Royal. It's a cheap political stunt.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Doug Ford, Ontario's premier, just pulled a cheap stunt over this crown royal situation where a bottling plant, not the operation in Gimli, Manitoba, a bottling plant, believed to have been planning this move to leave for the U.S. and shut down operations in Ontario for years because whiskey sales globally are changing.
00:00:27.560 people are drinking less. Doug turned it into this cheap performative stunt when most of these
00:00:34.420 crimes occurred that we just talked about in Ontario. He pours the 40 out and thinks he's
00:00:44.260 spiking the football, thinks it's some wonderful moment. It is cheap nonsense at a moment when
00:00:51.020 people are being executed in their homes when families feel less and less safe when young
00:00:57.520 people do not recognize the towns they are trying to start families in and lay down roots
00:01:03.740 we are pouring out booze we are doing the let them eat cake thing everything with him is
00:01:09.440 let them drink booze it's retail politician nonsense it is dreamed up by consultants
00:01:16.680 and transactional consultants and you can tell because they do not have your interests at heart
00:01:23.640 he is this is a phantom protecting of jobs here this this place was already shutting down
00:01:30.360 this is a parlor trick and a parlor trick at a time when ford who does comment on this issue
00:01:37.700 of crime during this this presser should be talking to his new buddy mark carney about all
00:01:43.720 they can do to fix crime. He should be more critical about that than all this cheap nonsense.