Juno News - February 03, 2022


Andrew Lawton speaks with Jim Karahalios

Topics
new blue party
Hosted by
Andrew Lawton
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Doug Ford Jim Carajalios
Conservative Caucus Leadership Vote Live Show Truckers for Freedom convoy stands their ground in Ottawa

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3 minutes

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In this episode, Andrew Lawton sits down with Jim Carajalios, the new leader of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, a new political party in Ontario headed into the June election. They discuss the truckers' protest in Ottawa this weekend, and why a new party should be formed in Ontario.

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00:00:00.000 So, Jim, I mean, you're in provincial politics, obviously, a new party heading into the first election for that party.
00:00:05.520 Why are you here in Ottawa protesting in a federal rally?
00:00:08.480 Well, the truckers have done such a great job putting this on the map, not only federally, but across globally.
00:00:13.560 Like, everyone's eyes are on it, and we're here to support the truckers, not a new blue thing this weekend.
00:00:18.780 And also because they've done such a great job.
00:00:21.240 We see conservative politicians finally speaking out and defending their position, finally.
00:00:26.420 But you know who's not saying anything, Andrew?
00:00:28.400 Doug Ford.
00:00:28.900 Doug Ford and the Ontario PC Party, for two years, they paved the way.
00:00:33.820 They said, Justin, we'll do it first in Ontario, and then you can do it federally.
00:00:38.200 These mandates and these lockdown-related policies.
00:00:43.120 And Doug Ford now is just staying quiet, and we're here to tell the people we've got a solution in Ontario for the June 2nd provincial election.
00:00:51.120 Because a lot of these mandates, like you know, are provincial laws and not federal.
00:00:55.780 We've seen no matter which government, which party, Liberal, Conservative, NDP, provincial governments have all basically gone the same way.
00:01:03.660 They've all put in vaccine passports. 0.96
00:01:05.140 They've all been very heavy-handed with restrictions.
00:01:07.320 What's the message to Ontarians who have seen that there basically is, in legislatures, no real opposition to these things?
00:01:15.020 Well, when Doug Ford became the leader of the PC Party, and then he became Premier, everyone thought we had a leader on the right side of the spectrum to defend the little guy, defend the taxpayer, stand up to Justin Trudeau's left-wing politics.
00:01:28.720 But instead, he betrayed Ford Nation and all of Ontario, and he gave Justin a pass.
00:01:35.960 So instead of having some strong leadership out of Ontario to stand up to Trudeau, he's given him carte blanche.
00:01:42.660 So Trudeau can do anything, and there's no opposition.
00:01:45.540 And Belinda and I, the MPP in Cambridge, we live in Ontario.
00:01:49.660 She's the MPP in the riding of Cambridge.
00:01:51.320 We decided the solution starts in Ontario, providing leadership to stand up against Justin Trudeau, and we need that institutional, political party on the right side of the spectrum standing up for the little guy.
00:02:03.520 That's the new blue party of Ontario.
00:02:05.480 You've obviously seen a huge groundswell of support behind the convoy.
00:02:09.620 I know you've been involved before running for politics in grassroots efforts, notably Axe the Carbon Tax.
00:02:14.520 Have you ever seen something quite like what's been happening this week and what's happening today in Ottawa?
00:02:18.300 Well, the silent majority has always been strong, and they've always been supportive of us in Ontario.
00:02:22.560 Axe the Carbon Tax, take back our PC party, when Belinda ran, the leadership campaign I was on, and when we started the new blue party.
00:02:29.340 But this time, the guys in charge went too far.
00:02:33.060 They went too far, and it's been two years of this.
00:02:35.840 And it started way before COVID, the way that we saw the PC party being run and the inside political parties, how they were being run.
00:02:43.420 And now they've taken that spirit of treating people like the truckers with disdain, and they've implemented that type of attitude in government.
00:02:52.080 And they've gone too far, and the truckers have done an incredible job putting it on the map, and we're here to support that.
00:02:57.780 How do you, as a provincial leader heading into an election in just a few months, keep up this momentum and not let it be just some flash in the pan that dissipates come Monday?
00:03:06.520 Well, Belinda and I have been at this for a while, Andrew, and this is a long-term project, the new blue party.
00:03:10.940 We've got riding associations set up in almost every riding.
00:03:14.780 We're 10 short.
00:03:15.400 We've got hundreds of people who have applied to be candidates.
00:03:17.680 We've got to get through an election campaign and keep building long-term to create a political party where people on the ground in Ontario can sign up, get interested, get active,
00:03:27.600 because the other establishment parties have just shut it down.
00:03:30.120 You don't have a say anymore in Canadian politics because the lobbyists and the left-wing ideologues are running the other three parties.
00:03:36.120 So this is a long-term project for us.
00:03:37.660 We know people want quick solutions, but it's not going to happen overnight, and the truckers are doing an incredible job in the political solution in Ontario's new blue party.
00:03:46.020 Jim Carajalios, thank you.
00:03:47.280 Thanks, Andrew.
00:03:48.160 For True North from Ottawa, I'm Andrew Lawton.