Juno News - April 23, 2025


Canada is now the world’s cautionary tale of failed woke policies

Topics
woke policies in Canada
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Justin Trudeau Jacobin
Poilievre's PRO-GROWTH budget vs. Carney's HIDDEN spending tricks Carney expected to balloon the federal budget while Canadians demand cuts

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2 minutes

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184.87

Word count

483

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29

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Justin Trudeau is a Canadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Canada from 2011 to 2017. He is also the author of the book Woke in Canada and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the Globe and Mail. In this episode, I talk to him about his career, his book, and the headlines he wrote about in the intro of his book.

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00:00:00.000 I collected some of the headlines that you wrote about in the intro of your book. So I'm going to
00:00:04.640 read through them for the audience. But again, it's a really grim picture. And this is kind of
00:00:08.740 in the context that Trudeau was supposed to rescue Canada's reputation in the early days. It really
00:00:13.320 was like, I remember the Rolling Stone had a cover of Justin Trudeau, like dreamy. Why can't
00:00:18.100 he be our prime minister or our president? And this idea was that he was like the last best hope
00:00:23.880 for liberalism. And he was like the, you know, the great progressive leader that was left standing.
00:00:28.660 And yet that all kind of like tumbled apart under his tenure.
00:00:31.780 So you started with the example of when the UK was debating euthanasia in that country,
00:00:37.780 the MPs were using Canada as the country that they didn't want to be like because everyone
00:00:41.740 agreed that Canada's euthanasia laws had gone too far.
00:00:45.340 The Telegraph declared that Vancouver was the fentanyl capital of the world.
00:00:49.300 The Times rebranded Canada as the world capital of assisted dying.
00:00:53.020 The BBC pegged Canada as the car theft capital of the world.
00:00:57.380 You go on to talk about Trudeau's online harms bill.
00:01:00.360 Sky News Australia said this,
00:01:02.500 Canada considers life sentences for offending someone based off of sex, age, or race.
00:01:07.380 A Canadian cancer society inspired headlines from as far away as India
00:01:11.620 when it apologized for using the term cervix in its literature about cervical cancer.
00:01:17.240 And then they provided alternative words that you could use.
00:01:19.600 It says you may prefer other words such as front hole.
00:01:21.920 Oh my goodness.
00:01:22.940 Just a few more here.
00:01:24.160 In the 2023 Women's Canadian Powerlifting Union competition, you write that a bearded competitor showed up, utterly shattered the record for women's bench press, and then went right back to identifying as a man after the results were logged.
00:01:39.700 And the New York Post described it this way, man enters powerlifting competition as woman, breaks record, and you say that the record still stands.
00:01:47.840 A couple with regards to euthanasia here, Wall Street Journal said, welcome to Canada, the doctor will kill you now. 0.99
00:01:55.020 He spiked online said, now Canada is euthanizing autistic people.
00:01:59.880 Canada moves one step closer to euthanizing children, according to the Daily Mail.
00:02:03.900 The Jacobin says that the Canadian state is euthanizing as poor and disabled.
00:02:08.500 And this one is probably the most shocking to me, just because it shows what Canadian people might believe.
00:02:14.900 It says, more than a quarter of Canadians think that homelessness and poverty are reasons for assisted suicide.
00:02:20.840 That was a Fox News headline.
00:02:23.360 So you really paint kind of an embarrassing picture here of our country that, like, Canada has become the global example of woke policies gone way too far, run amok, and there's no one really stopping them.