Juno News - Chrystia Freeland gaslights truckers

00:00:00.000 Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister, doing this tremendous display of gaslighting

00:00:05.960 as though Canadians have forgotten the last six months. She tweeted this, and I'm going to try

00:00:11.960 to get through this with a straight face. I can't make any guarantees, but I'm going to try

00:00:15.600 to do it without laughing. Truckers and trucking companies are essential to our economy.

00:00:23.660 Hang on, I can do it. No, no, no. Let me go back. Let me do this.

00:00:26.840 Look, truckers and trucking companies are essential to our economy.

00:00:36.980 That's why our government... No, I can't do it. That's why our government has been working

00:00:43.420 so hard to keep our trucking industry strong. Okay, I made it through. I can't read it again,

00:00:52.540 so you'll just have to read it on the screen there if you want, or if you're listening on audio,

00:00:55.720 just rewind it. That's why they're working to keep the trucking industry strong. So there are a couple

00:01:02.100 of issues I have with this. It is August 8th right now. February 8th was about six months ago, which

00:01:08.580 means we are just a few days away from the six-month anniversary of the federal government invoking the

00:01:14.120 Emergencies Act. And it was Chrystia Freeland herself, who also sits as Canada's Finance Minister,

00:01:19.860 who during that announcement got up and said, we are going to freeze your bank account if you have

00:01:25.620 a truck that's involved at the convoy, even if you aren't there. Who said, we're going to suspend

00:01:30.180 your driver's license. We're going to suspend your insurance. We're going to come after you on all

00:01:35.280 fronts. We are going to make it so that you can't pay your mortgage. You can't pay your employees.

00:01:41.740 You can't make your payroll. You can't even continue to work as a trucker for a time

00:01:46.180 because you dare to protest our vaccine mandate. So it makes me wonder when she says that they're

00:01:53.800 trying to keep the trucking industry strong, are they talking about the vaccine mandate for

00:01:59.200 cross-border truckers, which was not necessary, was not rooted in science, was coming to an industry

00:02:04.900 that had been dominated by these people that we held up rightfully so as our essential worker heroes

00:02:10.660 throughout the pandemic? Or is she keeping the trucking industry strong by continuing to

00:02:15.920 keep that punitive vaccine mandate in place? Even as all of the vaccine mandates for air travel,

00:02:22.000 which strikes me as something that happens in a lot more close contact than trucking across the

00:02:27.020 border does, have gone away. And all of the provincial mandates for things have gone away.

00:02:31.920 And it's not to say that any of those things were justified, but the federal government's science

00:02:37.180 has always been written on the back of a napkin here, if it even exists in that form that is as

00:02:43.720 sophisticated as that sounds.

Juno News - August 09, 2022