Juno News - Carney says Canadians are ＂getting ahead＂ while economy CRUMBLES

00:00:00.000 While you may think Canada is in the midst of an affordability crisis, but Prime Minister

00:00:09.080 Carney says Canadians haven't had it this good in over a decade. In a House of Commons debate,

00:00:15.360 Carney dismissed opposition critics of his record on unemployment and food inflation.

00:00:20.840 Let's look at what's happened to the United States since the summer. They have lost

00:00:24.160 6,000 jobs. This country has created over 80,000 jobs. Let's look at what's happened to wages in

00:00:31.480 this country. They are growing the highest in years, 4%. They're growing twice the rate of

00:00:36.760 inflation. Canadians are getting ahead. Every single month of this government, Canadian wages

00:00:41.620 have grown faster than the rate of inflation. Rents are at a 33-month low. Affordability is

00:00:47.220 the best it's been in over a decade. Well, according to Statistics Canada,

00:00:52.320 grocery prices have risen about 30% over the last five years. And last month, the economy lost over

00:00:58.560 100,000 full-time jobs. While mixed martial arts promoter Dana White has offered to cover medical

00:01:05.360 costs for one of the victims of the mass shooting at Cumberridge Secondary School in British Columbia,

00:01:12.640 Dana White says he'll pay for 12-year-old Maya Gabal's access to specialized treatment

00:01:19.440 at a brain trauma clinic in Los Angeles, and that includes covering the cost of family housing

00:01:26.260 in Los Angeles during her recovery. Maya was shot three times in the school library by 18-year-old

00:01:34.220 trans shooter Jesse Van Rootseller, who killed eight people last February the 10th.

00:01:40.720 According to one political strategist, the uproar over Air Canada's English-only video

00:01:46.340 following the deadly crash in New York is really all about politics in Canada.

00:01:52.140 CEO Michael Rousseau released the video after Air Canada Jet slammed into a fire truck

00:01:59.620 at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.

00:02:02.740 The video is almost entirely in English.

00:02:05.900 Tim Powers appeared on CBC's Power in Politics saying,

00:02:10.200 this is really all about the coming by-election in Quebec.

00:02:12.860 First of all, before I even get into that, I'd say,

00:02:16.000 Let's call out the opportunism here and not just the bilingualism.

00:02:20.680 Why is the prime minister, why are the blocs so passionate about this right now?

00:02:26.360 Why do they have to do this right now?

00:02:27.720 There's a crash.

00:02:28.440 People are dead.

00:02:29.680 Why couldn't this be held off for a month?

00:02:32.280 Why are they calling it right now?

00:02:33.680 Because there's a by-election in Terrible.

00:02:35.960 Okay, let's be frank about that.

00:02:39.260 Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he'll do what he can to defeat Bonny Crombie's bid

00:02:44.260 to return as mayor of Mississauga.

00:02:47.180 What do you think of the possibility of Mayor Crombie once more

00:02:50.500 and would you get involved to help stop her and help Mayor Parrish get re-elected?

00:02:54.760 You know something? I never get involved in municipal elections

00:02:57.420 but I will send an army down here to make sure I support Mayor Parrish.

00:03:01.840 It was an absolute disaster under Bonnie Crombie.

00:03:06.640 Rose taxes like they've never seen before.

00:03:09.380 Cut off everything about housing. 0.56

00:03:11.520 She was an absolute disaster. 0.98

00:03:13.400 So what I say to Mayor Bonnie Crombie, bring it on. Let's go. We're ready.

00:03:19.360 Well, Crombie left her job as mayor of the city in 2024 to run a failed election campaign 0.90

00:03:25.480 as leader of the Ontario Liberals. According to NATO, Canada has finally hit the 2%

00:03:32.660 of GDP target for military spending. It's the first time in 35 years that Canada has met its

00:03:39.540 NATO target. Meantime, President Trump says, despite being the main contributor to NATO,

00:03:45.900 the United States cannot count on its partners to help his country. Let's listen.

00:03:50.240 We're very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing.

00:03:56.000 And I've always said 25 years ago, I mean, I was somebody that wasn't a politician,

00:04:00.480 but I was always involved in politics and I understood politics. I said 25 years ago that

00:04:06.100 NATO's a paper tiger, but more importantly, that we'll come to their rescue, but they will never

00:04:11.860 come to ours. And I want you to remember that we said this, they didn't come to our rescue.

00:04:17.060 Now they all want to help when they're annihilated. The other side is annihilated. They said,

00:04:22.800 we'd love to send ships. They actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get

00:04:28.240 involved when the war is over. No, it's supposed to get involved when the war is beginning or even

00:04:34.280 before it begins. Our guest today is George Ann Burke, communications and political strategist and

00:04:40.540 expert. She joins us from Jerusalem. Welcome, George Ann. Thank you. Nice to see you.

00:04:48.540 We're going to chat a little bit about the war, obviously, and you're in Israel right now. And so

00:04:54.740 we're certainly interested in getting your take on what's going on there. But I want to start off

00:04:59.720 with the story that caused a bit of a minor uproar in Canada, specifically the CEO of Air Canada,

00:05:07.560 following this deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Two pilots were killed,

00:05:14.480 and the CEO came out and basically issued his statement on video, more or less completely in

00:05:22.280 English. I mean, there were a couple of words in French, but that was it. And so the prime minister

00:05:26.960 came out and suggested that he was, meaning the CEO, was not very compassionate in delivering

00:05:34.140 his comments entirely in English. And so it seems to have distracted from the fact that two people

00:05:40.960 were killed and that there are safety issues around what happened. And we have to find out

00:05:45.800 exactly what caused it. Actually, let's listen to that clip first. And this is from Power and

00:05:52.780 politics on the cbc this is tim power commenting on it first of all before i even get into that

00:05:58.420 i'd say there's a let's call out the opportunism here and not just the bilingualism why is the

00:06:05.060 prime minister why are the blocs so passionate about this right now what do they have to do

00:06:10.720 this right now there's a crash people are dead why couldn't this be held off for a month why

00:06:16.040 are they calling it right now because there's a by-election in terrible okay let's be frank about

00:06:21.080 that so he says it's political pure and simple what do you think well it is political pure and

00:06:27.460 simple um the prime minister of the country uh when there's a tragedy like this you would think

00:06:33.740 that his natural instinct if he had any human instinct would be to speak to the families

00:06:40.760 directly and through his public uh uh you know his public platform his podium to speak to the

00:06:48.660 family expresses sorrow for them uh talk about how important it is to get to the bottom of what

00:06:54.240 happened for the sake of the families and for the sake of canadians to know you know what were the

00:07:02.080 factors that led to this terrible um occurrence uh but instead he complains that the ceo of air

00:07:10.340 canada only spoke english when he did this and it shows that he lacks compassion um i don't think

00:07:17.920 the definition of compassion is which language you choose to speak in it's actually what he said

00:07:23.220 i don't know what the ceo said but i'm going to bet you that it was more compassionate than what

00:07:29.700 mark carney said uh criticizing this guy for not speaking in french um i i just don't even

00:07:36.900 understand uh what he would be thinking why we think this is good i know tim powers powers is

00:07:42.600 correct mark this on your calendars i said tim powers is correct um that uh it was for political

00:07:48.580 reasons that's why he did it is because of the by-election coming up in terribon i believe that

00:07:52.920 firmly so it was political which is incredibly uh cynical of the prime minister to do um under

00:07:59.800 these circumstances shameful and you figure it's all about the by-election that because of course

00:08:06.260 the bloc has been raising this and so uh of course you've had outcry in the province of

00:08:12.060 back by certain high ranking politicians demanding that this guy uh be fired i mean

00:08:19.340 if this by-election hadn't happened wasn't due to happen i guess in april 13th maybe things would

00:08:25.580 not be rolling out the way they are rolling out a thousand percent this would never have come up

00:08:31.560 um you know they might not have liked it the bloc might not have liked it they might have

00:08:36.100 complained about it um because they tend to complain about these things and that's fine

00:08:41.000 But for the prime minister to talk about it is inappropriate, first of all.

00:08:46.060 And secondly, to say that he wasn't being compassionate 0.96

00:08:49.280 because he didn't speak in French is utterly ridiculous. 0.78

00:08:53.220 Like I said, it was the content of what he said that mattered more. 0.96

00:08:56.140 That was not compassionate.

00:08:57.640 Okay, that's a different problem.

00:08:59.200 But not speaking the language that is the preferred language of Quebec,

00:09:04.420 okay, that's a different problem.

00:09:05.840 It's something for another day, not for that day.

00:09:07.740 not for that day not under those circumstances right and the ceo is due to appear before

00:09:13.880 official languages committee and as of comments so i guess he'll be expected to apologize in order

00:09:20.500 to say yeah ma'am maxima culpa you know he's gonna have one of those things yeah well he'll

00:09:27.240 come on and deliver all his comments entirely in french of course or try to all right let's talk

00:09:36.160 about Jerusalem. Let's talk about what's going on. I guess the Iranians, the Americans are,

00:09:44.340 they're supposed to be a kind of a lull or a pause in the ongoing war and the assault on Iran

00:09:51.360 while both sides engage in some kind of discussions. We have a strange dynamic going on

00:09:58.360 where Trump is coming out and saying the Iranians really want a deal. They're begging for some kind

00:10:04.440 a deal, and then you have outwardly what they come out and announce to the world, which

00:10:10.320 is, you know, we're not making a deal, we don't agree to his terms, and then laying

00:10:15.360 out their own particular demands for some kind of a ceasefire.

00:10:20.000 What do you make of that?

00:10:21.500 So it sounds to me kind of like Groundhog Day, except the original Groundhog Day was

00:10:25.700 Nicolas Maduro, who did exactly the same thing.

00:10:28.560 I'm not talking to them.

00:10:29.560 I'm not making any deals with Trump.

00:10:31.600 I don't have to do that.

00:10:32.880 you know what happened to him he went into the court today on trial for his crimes um so if i

00:10:39.400 were um a betting person i'm not but if i were i would say that this war will be over pretty soon

00:10:46.500 um the 82nd airborne and marines and another ship are being moved and should be there by friday i'm

00:10:53.340 told um into the area um and i think the the very last thing that donald trump wants to do is put

00:11:01.300 any boots on the ground, but he may do that on a very temporary basis to kind of take control

00:11:09.080 over the last of what's left. Today, I think it was the Israelis actually killed the head of the 0.98

00:11:16.340 IRGC Naval Command. They've gotten all the IRGC top people as well as all the other top people,

00:11:22.660 the police guy, all the other military services are all gone, and the political leaders. If I were

00:11:29.360 uh one of them and somebody offered me one of those jobs i'd say yeah no i'm not interested

00:11:34.560 because as soon as you get your name attached to one of those jobs you're a target for the

00:11:38.560 israelis and they don't miss so um i i just have a feeling that um they're they're saying this stuff

00:11:45.280 for show at home uh that they they are not making any deals and whatever but um if they're gonna if

00:11:53.040 they're actually being serious that's very foolish because uh donald trump is going look over there

00:11:58.320 look over there we're making deals and really what's going on over here is what's more important 0.87

00:12:02.800 and that is that he's getting uh people moved into place to do whatever i think he feels needs

00:12:09.120 to be done um i did watch his uh cabinet meeting at least part of it today um in which uh he and

00:12:16.320 hegseth and rubio and besant all spoke pretty much at length about the situation in iran they

00:12:22.320 all had different roles the treasury secretary has the role of dealing with these sanctions

00:12:26.960 the financial sanctions and things like that rubio of course is secretary of state so he's

00:12:31.280 dealing on the diplomatic side hexas secretary of war on the defense side and trump being the

00:12:36.800 leader of the pack uh you know he he had his things that he felt he should say and um i i think

00:12:44.320 it's a amazingly interesting to watch the dynamic of that group they're tightly knit they work very

00:12:50.960 closely together they are in tune with each other they know what they're doing i find it amusing

00:12:56.720 that chuck schumer of all people uh is saying donald trump doesn't know what he's doing he's

00:13:02.240 off doing this he's off doing that he's he's just he's he can't seem to to kind of get one thing

00:13:07.600 done and he's not you know he's not a linear guy uh donald trump is not a linear guy he's

00:13:12.480 a multitasker he's got a lot of things going on and he's got control all over all of it

00:13:17.360 so um chuck can take a downer just chill out don't worry it's all good it's in good hands

00:13:22.640 um but i could tell you i'm here now and i got here last night and i said everybody could thank

00:13:29.320 me for the first night of sleep uninterrupted the iranians knew i was coming so instead of

00:13:36.080 baking me a cake they gave everybody a night's sleep so we didn't have any alerts until this

00:13:40.760 morning around seven o'clock uh there were several today um because they are shooting missiles into

00:13:46.040 israel um and even though they're not we believe directly targeting jerusalem for a number of

00:13:52.280 reasons public relations religious and other um when they shoot a rocket number one they're not

00:13:58.600 always very accurate we think they're just now they're just dumping rockets wherever and if one

00:14:04.440 happens to hit here oh well but it wouldn't have happened in the past the fact is though the big

00:14:08.840 danger is the very thing that defends israel the iron dome and the arrow system and i forget what

00:14:15.000 the third one is there's three arrow defense uh three missile defense systems for different kinds

00:14:19.480 of missiles and when they do stop a missile they they destroy it in mid-air but there's shrapnel

00:14:27.000 and there's pieces that come down my granddaughter lives in a town outside of jerusalem and took a

00:14:34.440 picture today from window of her house and there was a huge piece of a missile that wasn't aimed 0.99

00:14:41.080 at their town but was shot over their town was destroyed over their town and fell down on the

00:14:45.640 ground which is why people are asked to stay indoors when those alerts happen it isn't necessarily

00:14:50.920 that the missile is coming at that particular area but if they shoot it down people can get hurt

00:14:56.760 i will say this um there are areas of the country that have been hurt pretty badly and one of those

00:15:02.520 is tel aviv there have been a number of very serious incursions into uh by the way not military

00:15:09.160 installations, but residential buildings, office buildings where people, just ordinary people

00:15:16.620 work. So there's either a purposeful attack on civilians or complete disregard and just throwing

00:15:24.080 everything that they have no matter where it lands. So Tel Aviv's going through a pretty bad

00:15:30.260 time. There was an incident today in Haria and in Qasim, which is an Arab town, interestingly

00:15:37.400 enough that both were hit by rockets today and they're using cluster bombs which last time I 0.59

00:15:45.440 heard is a war crime so but apparently it's only a war crime if you accuse Israel of doing it even

00:15:50.560 if they don't do it but if they actually do it because they've got video of these cluster bombs

00:15:55.120 going off so if they do it apparently it's okay or not even okay they just don't talk about it I

00:16:02.560 guess that's the easiest thing it's just don't talk about it um so it is it is interesting um

00:16:07.820 i came over uh on the plane last night uh i left the night it's 12 hour flight so i left at one

00:16:15.980 o'clock in the morning on the 25th and i got here at seven o'clock at night israeli time um and last

00:16:24.400 night and uh the plane was not even remotely full which is partly because they're restricting the

00:16:30.940 number of people that can go in and out of the country and partly because people just aren't

00:16:34.700 coming over on tours because there's nothing to come touring for a lot of the businesses of that

00:16:41.160 type are closed down um restaurants and things are open the schools are closed the kids are not

00:16:47.000 in school right now the passover starts next week anyway so they figured let's protect the kids keep

00:16:53.420 them out of the schools because they shoot at everything so at least they're home with their

00:16:56.460 families and their parents can protect them everybody has safe rooms like this room that

00:17:01.000 i'm in here um or bomb shelters in their buildings or live close to a shelter that they can get to if

00:17:07.000 they need to um and um that's kind of the life that people live here my grandson-in-law my

00:17:15.560 granddaughter has two young children um has made it made a video just for our family but if i'm

00:17:22.860 talking to his oldest child who's three and a half about why are you in this room it's called

00:17:28.500 a mamad it's a bomb shelter why are we here what are the sounds that you hear that know that you

00:17:33.000 have to come here and she can imitate all the sounds she knows the difference between the alert

00:17:36.520 sound the the missile sound and the iron dome sound and she imitates all the sounds and I said

00:17:42.900 you know it's cute but it's not how sad is it that a three and a half year old child has to think

00:17:49.060 like that she luckily has parents who don't frighten her they talk to her factually about

00:17:54.580 it they make it just a part of her life every day so she's not scared but um you know this is the

00:18:01.300 life that these kids are living uh it isn't normal i hope it will be over soon um you know

00:18:08.020 uh that's that's what we're all hoping for is the support for the war strong amongst the regular

00:18:15.460 folks i mean i understand the kids are obviously trying to make sense of it all and the parents

00:18:21.060 are trying to uh i mean to your point explain and explain why it's going on but amongst the

00:18:30.180 regular people there is support for the war strong uh yes i would say it is still very strong as a

00:18:38.100 matter of fact um part of the reason is as strong as it is is that they know that the iranian people

00:18:44.660 are with them as well they understand that the big the big danger has always been and and netanyahu

00:18:52.180 if you recall went to the united nations and explained this in pictorial graphical met you

00:18:58.500 know way to the dummies that sit there in the uh uh halls of the united nations to explain to them

00:19:05.300 why iran and its current regime are such a danger to the rest of the world so we know that here in

00:19:12.020 israel the iranians who lived under that regime and are still there under that regime to some

00:19:17.860 degree they know very well and they're literally uh joined at the hip you know uh metaphorically

00:19:26.340 on this and the israeli people feel like they can support it they understand how important it

00:19:30.420 is they know that there will never be any peace unless the the uh mother of all instigators is 0.94

00:19:37.940 taken care of and removed and their proxies hezbollah right now is under serious attack by

00:19:44.340 israel they've moved troops into lebanon ground troops into lebanon and they're taking them on

00:19:49.380 they're they're done playing around with these guys um they had pretty much demolished hamas

00:19:54.180 you don't hear much from them these days um they uh the houthis are pretty quiet too interestingly

00:19:59.860 enough i was kind of surprised they didn't get more involved the arab countries around israel

00:20:05.700 uae saudi arabia jordan all these countries have pretty much said in the united nations

00:20:12.740 iran's got to go it's enough already like they've been attacked themselves bahrain qatar kuwait

00:20:20.800 they've all been attacked by the iranians in this war their facilities their oil facilities their

00:20:26.300 their electrical facilities their infrastructure in their cities and they're they're done they said

00:20:32.380 you know that's not that's not going to fly with us so they created a lot more enemies

00:20:36.220 um on their side and the israelis know it so they're sticking together pretty pretty solidly

00:20:41.260 on this there are always people who oppose it on some anti-war principle which is very nice but not

00:20:47.660 real in this world unfortunately i mean canada's installation in kuwait was attacked and uh far

00:20:54.220 as i know canada didn't even issue a condemnation of that action we tried to keep it quiet i guess

00:21:00.940 that was the strategy by our government is let's just uh because nobody nobody sees social media or

00:21:07.260 reads any other media outlets and the only way they get their news is from mark carney that must

00:21:13.020 be the thought behind it everybody knows what happened and there have been many people even

00:21:18.780 people from their own party criticizing them for not speaking up about this what why are you not

00:21:25.500 you know talking about what a terrible thing was done and uh again i i don't understand the thinking

00:21:30.620 the communications thinking it's the same thinking that they use to to get him to complain about

00:21:35.740 the guy from air canada not speaking french so it's the same kind of nonsense yeah they should 1.00

00:21:41.580 carry their comms team i think anyway well i think it was because he didn't want to get involved in

00:21:46.700 the conflict and so it came out that our installation uh was bombed by iran an unprovoked

00:21:55.260 attack that there would be some sentiment amongst the general public in canada that we should

00:22:00.060 retaliate to do something at least condemn them but none of that they just tried to keep it quiet

00:22:05.420 i think it's an absolutely shameful thing anyway i've certainly heard that from my friends i can

00:22:11.260 tell you that people are shocked that he didn't even say this is a terrible thing that was done

00:22:16.460 to our guys and we would like to find some way to help to contribute to making sure this can't

00:22:21.500 happen again it doesn't mean you have to send in the entire military or even put in a lot of money

00:22:27.340 but a little public support would have heard well stay safe thank you when are you sorry when are

00:22:36.540 you coming back to uh april 22nd in theory however uh ll has canceled um most of the outgoing flights

00:22:46.220 up to april 15th but as i said if this actually ends everything will go back to normal very quickly

00:22:52.060 um here it is passover beginning next week on wednesday is the first night of passover

00:22:58.380 um so it'll be a week of holiday and then after that um you know people aren't people are busy

00:23:05.580 with their families on the holiday during that week anyway so it's a little quieter here um

00:23:10.240 normally you'd have a lot of uh people coming in to celebrate the holiday here in israel it's a

00:23:15.660 beautiful time of year often not right now it isn't but weather-wise but it usually is and it's

00:23:21.040 supposed to be nice next week. It's spring, so it's lovely. And it's a great place to celebrate

00:23:27.480 this particular holiday of freedom for our people. So we're just hoping this will end and then at

00:23:35.000 least the last couple of weeks out here will be like normal. All the best to you and your family

00:23:41.020 over Paso. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good to speak to you, Mark. Good to speak to you. George

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Juno News - March 26, 2026

Carney says Canadians are ＂getting ahead＂ while economy CRUMBLES

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