Juno News - June 02, 2022


Are foreign journalists better at covering Canadian news？

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Justin Trudeau Rav Arora Rosemary Barton COVID-19
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5 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss a recent piece by Rav Rav Arora in the New York Post titled, "Once a Liberal Democracy, Canada Is Now An Autocratic State." We also talk about Canada's anti-vaccination laws, and why it's an outlier in the advanced West when it comes to vaccine mandates.

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00:00:00.000 Rufa, one of the things I've noticed recently is that some of the better sort of reporting and opinion pieces on Canada and specifically on Justin Trudeau come from abroad.
00:00:10.840 You know, we had during the Trekker Convoy, the New York Times reporting on things that several times legacy media journalists, people like Rosemary Barton at the CBC, were openly criticizing and telling the New York Times to take this down because it's wrong.
00:00:24.240 Well, it wasn't wrong. It just didn't fit with the Trudeau narrative. You know, the idea that they were breaking into vehicles and arresting people at gunpoint.
00:00:30.880 That was sort of like an inconvenient story that the Canadian media didn't want.
00:00:35.680 One of the other things I've noticed is a sort of disconnect between.
00:00:39.560 So in Canada, if you say that Justin Trudeau is acting like a dictator or that Canada is going down a tyrannical or authoritarian path,
00:00:47.420 the media sort of like clutch their pearls and say, like, that's reckless and hyperbolic. How dare you?
00:00:54.900 More and more, we're hearing that opinion being taken from people around the world, outside observers, people who are critical of Trudeau.
00:01:03.780 And I saw that you shared a piece by Rav Arora, who's a great young writer from Vancouver.
00:01:09.460 He wrote a piece in the New York Post titled Once a Liberal Democracy, Canada is now an authoritarian state.
00:01:15.640 So it's a great piece. I encourage viewers to go out and read it.
00:01:19.480 Rav argues that Canadian government has taken away, has taken its power to extreme levels.
00:01:23.780 He tells a story about how he almost wasn't allowed back into Canada, despite, you know, being a Canadian.
00:01:29.520 And he also makes a point saying that, you know, his family left India when he was a child.
00:01:35.260 And he feels that, you know, Canada is not necessarily more free than India.
00:01:38.680 I'm wondering if you can give us your thoughts on Rav's piece and sort of generally that direction that not only is Canada heading towards this direction,
00:01:49.320 we don't see these kind of opinion pieces much in Canada.
00:01:52.180 Increasingly, you are seeing them around the world, though.
00:01:54.360 Exactly. I very much enjoyed Rav's piece and I shared it, you know, I shared a very important quote from the tweet where he says that,
00:02:04.400 you know, the country that my parents left behind, India, you know, seems a lot less authoritarian than Canada at this point
00:02:11.360 because he's unvaccinated and he can't get on a plane and and he's essentially a prisoner in his own country.
00:02:17.940 I think that's, you know, I'm very sympathetic to that point of view.
00:02:22.560 I, you know, I know a lot of unvaccinated people and they're really struggling.
00:02:28.100 It's in Canada is an outlier in this regard.
00:02:33.160 India, a country that I'm also very familiar with, having spent a lot of time there, has no vaccine mandates in place.
00:02:40.320 In fact, the Supreme Court of India said that vaccine mandates were were unconstitutional and in a recent ruling.
00:02:48.400 And that, you know, you can't and and and emphasized on the importance of bodily autonomy.
00:02:56.940 It was an extraordinary ruling.
00:02:58.620 And and it makes made me question why, you know, what is happening with our courts here?
00:03:04.540 You know, why aren't we seeing this kind of, you know, why aren't we seeing this sort of thing happening here?
00:03:09.980 And and and so a lot of people like Rav, you know, feel that the country that they grew up in.
00:03:17.760 And I will say this as someone who spent 25 years, you know, I came here as a teenager and I've been, you know, and I've been here for for for a long time.
00:03:28.280 And I can tell you that I don't recognize this country anymore.
00:03:31.360 I don't I don't I don't recognize what you know, I don't understand what is happening here.
00:03:37.240 I don't know why Canada is an outlier here.
00:03:39.640 Of course, there are problems with India. 1.00
00:03:41.720 I wouldn't say that, you know, India is necessarily freer than Canada.
00:03:46.160 I think that would be a little bit of an exaggeration if one were to say that.
00:03:50.560 But one can certainly point to the fact that Canada is heading in the wrong direction.
00:03:55.980 It is an outlier in the advanced West.
00:03:57.980 It is it's an outlier among major countries in insisting on vaccine mandates on the two dose vaccine mandate, which makes absolutely no sense.
00:04:07.540 You have research upon research coming up from various credible health agencies from across the world, whether it's the CDC, whether it's the UK or it's the UK Health Authority or UK Health Agency that show that the two dose vaccine regimen is actually not very effective at this point, where if you've done two doses, you're you're you're you're really the vaccine effectiveness is essentially gone down to zero.
00:04:34.620 So so but but but the diff but the thing is, I can get on a plane and I can apply for a federal government job, but the unvaccinated can't. 1.00
00:04:44.440 And that's the and that's what's very cruel about the situation.
00:04:49.040 And and and and also we've we've completely ignored the fact that a lot of unvaccinated people probably have a great deal of natural immunity at this point.
00:04:59.280 At this point, everyone's more or less been infected.
00:05:02.040 And so you have immunity from vaccination and you also have immunity from having recovered from COVID-19 yet yet the government insists on these vaccine mandates which absolutely make no sense, so I appreciate where he's coming from where Rav Aurora is coming from, and I sympathize with it, and it is an absolutely frustrating situation to be in.