Juno News - February 22, 2020


Canada needs a real leader

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Trudeau Andrew Scheer Winston Churchill Francois Legault G.K. Chesterton Brenda Luckey Hypocrisy
The Mean Girls Prime Minister (feat. Patrick Moore) Don't believe what Trudeau says -- politicians can give orders to the police

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3 minutes

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Word count

492

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24

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After three days of meeting with his lightweight group of sycophantic cabinet ministers dubbed the Incident Response Group, the Prime Minister has decided that the rail blockades in Canada must come down. After saying his government didn t control the National Police Force just days earlier, he didn't say just how that might occur if the protesters declined his kind invitation.

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00:00:00.000 In all the parks and all the cities in all the world, there is not one statue
00:00:09.120 erected to a committee. The quote is often attributed to Winston Churchill, but I
00:00:14.520 suspect it traces back to a quote by British writer G.K. Chesterton who said,
00:00:19.720 I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of
00:00:23.760 committees. But whoever originated the quote, the meaning is clear. Leadership
00:00:29.440 matters. It matters to get anything accomplished. After cavorting around
00:00:33.700 Africa and Europe for a couple of weeks and ignoring the rail blockades and
00:00:38.260 protests in Canada, encouraging dialogue and saying that his government did not
00:00:43.360 tell the RCMP what to do, the Prime Minister finally returned back to Canada
00:00:48.280 on the weekend. While no one, let alone veteran members of the RCMP, believe that,
00:00:53.380 members are constantly told that their commanders have to check with Ottawa to
00:00:58.040 make a decision, to get anything done. Now after three days of meeting with his
00:01:03.500 lightweight group of sycophantic cabinet ministers dubbed the Incident Response
00:01:09.740 Group, the Prime Minister has decided that the barricades must come down.
00:01:14.760 Essentially, he said the same thing on Friday at his press conference that Andrew
00:01:19.280 Scheer said in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Comments that Trudeau decried and
00:01:24.200 used it as an excuse to decline to invite Scheer to a meeting of all party leaders
00:01:29.660 to discuss the developing situation. Hypocrisy, apparently thy name is Trudeau. 0.60
00:01:35.540 Anyway, to be fair, it also took a conference call amongst all of the Premiers on 0.66
00:01:41.060 Wednesday to discuss their response after the PMO suggested it was up to the
00:01:45.620 provinces to determine how to deal with the blockades. On Thursday, Quebec Premier
00:01:52.160 Francois Legault called upon the Prime Minister to put an end to the blockades
00:01:56.780 and put a finite date on that. Well, that did it. One word from Quebec and Trudeau
00:02:04.100 jumps. He held a press conference late Friday saying the blockades must come down.
00:02:10.040 But after saying his government didn't control the National Police Force just days
00:02:15.680 earlier, he didn't say just exactly how that might occur if the so-called
00:02:21.020 protesters declined his kind invitation. He was asked if he might use the
00:02:27.860 military and he said something to the effect that the military would never be
00:02:33.680 used against Canadians, conveniently forgetting the fact that his father
00:02:37.800 imposed martial law on the country during the October crisis of 1970 and deploy the
00:02:44.520 military to the streets of Montreal. So far, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey has
00:02:50.400 shown precious little leadership from her end of things. There is little to
00:02:56.460 indicate she has any appetite to confront the protesters and one wonders if she has
00:03:01.200 the intestinal fortitude to give the requisite order to enforce injunctions and
00:03:06.240 take down the barricades and get the economy moving again.
00:03:12.420 It's not clear how any of this will end, but end it must. If only we had a real leader
00:03:19.200 somewhere.