Juno News - August 16, 2020


Another week of Liberal scandals


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

143.53766

Word Count

683

Sentence Count

40

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Another week in Ottawa and some things just seem to remain the same.
00:00:10.140 There are more details on the WE scandal that paints the government of Justin Trudeau in an
00:00:15.360 even worse light. Trudeau has gone off on yet another vacation even though he missed one of
00:00:23.160 the only four days this summer that he designated Parliament to sit. In a story reported on True
00:00:29.720 North the Prime Minister has logged 48 personal days and a whopping 91 days off in 2019. This week
00:00:38.100 our part-time Prime Minister is in Ottawa taking personal time according to the official website
00:00:43.800 of the PMO. But he's been spotted in a small place in Ontario's cottage country on Georgian Bay and the
00:00:51.240 locals have posted photos of heavily armed RCMP tactical boats patrolling in the area. Reportedly
00:00:58.060 is some residents of the Weston family who own Loblaws. A company, oddly enough, that Trudeau gave
00:01:05.380 12 million dollars to last year ostensibly to install environmentally friendly refrigeration
00:01:11.420 in some of their stores. This is perhaps yet another conflict of interest scandal in the making.
00:01:18.480 Since the WE scandal broke, the Prime Minister has been in his office exactly twice. Once to hold a
00:01:25.620 press conference to explain and apologize for his behavior. The other was to testify before the
00:01:31.500 Standing Committee on Finance in the House of Commons. Meanwhile, while Trudeau was bagging
00:01:37.620 rays on the beach in Georgian Bay, the WE scandal continued to unravel. We learned that Youth Minister
00:01:44.860 Bardish Chaggar spoke to the Kielbergers just five days before the contract proposal was due to be
00:01:51.220 submitted. Chaggar testified she was alone on that call. Yet in the WE charity notes of the call,
00:01:58.160 it indicates her chief of staff, and perhaps others from her office, were on the call.
00:02:04.180 Quite apart from anything else, why would any minister communicate with somebody who was preparing a bid
00:02:11.080 to do business with government that was worth over 912 million dollars in advance of the presentation
00:02:18.680 being made? That's just wrong. That's not how good stewards of the public purse behave.
00:02:24.460 In the last couple of days, we have learned just what this scandal has cost the Kielbergers,
00:02:29.560 as they laid off staff in Ontario and in the UK. They were also said to be looking to divest some of
00:02:36.060 their not unsubstantial real estate holdings in downtown Toronto to help pay the bills now that
00:02:42.400 the government has turned off the money faucet. Then there was the report of someone yelling
00:02:47.680 obscenities at the constituency office of infrastructure minister Catherine McKenna.
00:02:54.500 Evidently, the male used a derogatory epithet in the process, calling her a vulgar name for female
00:03:01.300 genital genitalia. It has since been reported that the Ottawa police have opened up a hate crime
00:03:07.080 investigation in the wake of the incident. Hate crime is defined in the criminal code of Canada.
00:03:15.080 It involves race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. What McKenna was called may have been rude,
00:03:23.160 but it certainly doesn't meet the definition of hate crime as in the criminal code. Yet, the police are
00:03:30.580 investigating. So, if I have this straight, call the minister a nasty name and it triggers a police
00:03:36.820 investigation. Try to defraud the Canadian taxpayer of $912 million and nothing from the RCMP.
00:03:46.100 And then just last night, we learned of a $20 million contract to a company associated with
00:03:51.660 heritage minister Stephen Gilbo. In a story broken by the post-millennial, the Liberals awarded a contract
00:03:59.200 to cycle capital management to cycle capital management, who apparently paid Gilbo as recently
00:04:05.320 as 2018 for advice. It is not known at this point whether Gilbo recused himself from the cabinet table
00:04:12.600 when the contract was being considered. But the stench lingers. And what are the Liberals doing giving
00:04:20.620 taxpayer dollars to a venture capital company anyway? That in itself defies logic. And on what
00:04:27.780 government should be spending our precious tax dollars on. The Liberal machine grinds on. Scandal after
00:04:35.980 scandal. Corruption example on top of corruption example. For these Liberals, plus ça change.
00:04:42.620 For True North, I'm Leo Knight.