Juno News - February 08, 2022


Bergen asks if Trudeau regrets demonizing the unvaccinated


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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

154.59184

Word count

505

Sentence count

28


Summary

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Learn English with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins the House of Commons for a debate on the controversial issue of whether or not to mandate the use of the flu vaccine in Canada.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:00:02.000 Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the Prime Minister for participating and being part of this debate.
00:00:07.000 I look at our country, Mr. Speaker, and I've never seen it as divided as it is now under this Prime Minister,
00:00:14.000 whether it's regional lines, whether it's ethnic lines, whether it's people's health care choices.
00:00:20.000 This country is more divided than ever, and the Prime Minister talks about things like respecting each other,
00:00:27.000 and we are not fighting against each other, we are fighting a virus.
00:00:31.000 And I have two very simple questions for him.
00:00:35.000 When he decided to introduce the vaccine mandate, he believed it was the right thing to do.
00:00:40.000 Does he regret calling people names who didn't take the vaccine?
00:00:44.000 Does he regret calling people misogynist and racist and just escalating and poking sticks at them
00:00:53.000 and being so divisive to individual Canadians that he might not disagree with, that he might have thought were wrong?
00:01:00.000 Does he regret that?
00:01:02.000 And will he agree to meet with the leaders here, the other opposition leaders and myself,
00:01:08.000 so that we can talk about a solution in the way that he's described?
00:01:12.000 Mr. Speaker, we are in uncharted territory.
00:01:17.000 We are at a crisis point, not only with what's going on out the doors and across the country,
00:01:23.000 but the country overall.
00:01:25.000 And so much of it is because of the things that he has said and done.
00:01:29.000 Does he regret his words?
00:01:31.000 And will he work with us so that we can find some resolution?
00:01:34.000 Thank you.
00:01:35.000 Mr. Speaker, I think people watching expect me to disagree with the Leader of the Official Opposition.
00:01:46.000 I just didn't think it would be about something so fundamental.
00:01:51.000 She is telling people tonight that Canada has never been so divided,
00:01:56.000 never been so angry at one region against another.
00:02:01.000 And I disagree.
00:02:02.000 What we have seen over these past two years has been Canadians stepping up for each other in extraordinary ways.
00:02:12.000 Canada has one of the highest vaccination rates of our peer countries around the world.
00:02:19.000 Why? And it's not because Canadians love getting needles.
00:02:22.000 It's because Canadians trust science. Canadians trust each other to do the right things.
00:02:31.000 It's in our national psyche of being able to be there for our neighbours,
00:02:36.000 being able to push a car out of a snowbank for a perfect stranger, leaning on each other.
00:02:43.000 These are the things that define Canadians.
00:02:45.000 And what we saw through these past two years is people stepping up for our frontline health workers,
00:02:50.000 stepping up for our grocery store clerks, leaning on each other, supporting our seniors, supporting our young people.
00:02:56.000 Young people getting there, stepping up to do what they could around the house to help out while their parents are all locked down.
00:03:03.000 This is a story of a country that got through this pandemic by being united,
00:03:08.000 and a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are.