Juno News - February 08, 2022Bergen asks if Trudeau regrets demonizing the unvaccinated
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Summary
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.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the Prime Minister for participating and being part of this debate.
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I look at our country, Mr. Speaker, and I've never seen it as divided as it is now under this Prime Minister,
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whether it's regional lines, whether it's ethnic lines, whether it's people's health care choices.
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This country is more divided than ever, and the Prime Minister talks about things like respecting each other,
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and we are not fighting against each other, we are fighting a virus.
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When he decided to introduce the vaccine mandate, he believed it was the right thing to do.
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Does he regret calling people names who didn't take the vaccine?
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Does he regret calling people misogynist and racist and just escalating and poking sticks at them
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and being so divisive to individual Canadians that he might not disagree with, that he might have thought were wrong?
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And will he agree to meet with the leaders here, the other opposition leaders and myself,
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so that we can talk about a solution in the way that he's described?
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We are at a crisis point, not only with what's going on out the doors and across the country,
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And so much of it is because of the things that he has said and done.
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And will he work with us so that we can find some resolution?
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Mr. Speaker, I think people watching expect me to disagree with the Leader of the Official Opposition.
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I just didn't think it would be about something so fundamental.
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She is telling people tonight that Canada has never been so divided,
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never been so angry at one region against another.
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What we have seen over these past two years has been Canadians stepping up for each other in extraordinary ways.
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Canada has one of the highest vaccination rates of our peer countries around the world.
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Why? And it's not because Canadians love getting needles.
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It's because Canadians trust science. Canadians trust each other to do the right things.
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It's in our national psyche of being able to be there for our neighbours,
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being able to push a car out of a snowbank for a perfect stranger, leaning on each other.
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And what we saw through these past two years is people stepping up for our frontline health workers,
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stepping up for our grocery store clerks, leaning on each other, supporting our seniors, supporting our young people.
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Young people getting there, stepping up to do what they could around the house to help out while their parents are all locked down.
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This is a story of a country that got through this pandemic by being united,
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and a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are.