Juno News - Chrystia Freeland pretends she supports truckers

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00:00:23.060 It is Monday, August 8th, 2022.

00:00:27.020 I had to think about the year there.

00:00:29.040 That is the COVID effect in action, because for the last two years, life has basically

00:00:34.460 been, I mean, two and a half years, really, life's been completely stolen from us.

00:00:38.700 So there's a part of me that like wonders if it's still 2019.

00:00:41.880 And then I realized, oh, it's definitely not 2019, but that may be the life we want to

00:00:45.760 bring back.

00:00:46.480 But nevertheless, it's never taken me so long to tell you the date before.

00:00:49.740 August 8th, 2022, unless you're listening in the podcast version of this, in which case

00:00:55.160 the date means absolutely nothing to you and we can just move on but that is one way of saying

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00:01:16.800 you who are subscribed to this and they're the ones that don't have to look at my face in video

00:01:20.760 which may be a real win. You never know. We are going to be speaking later on to Melissa Lantzman,

00:01:26.640 the Conservative Member of Parliament and Transportation critic, about the situation

00:01:31.460 with Canada's airports, which may actually result in Omar Al-Ghabra having to testify

00:01:37.060 before the Transport Committee. That's my takeaway from the meeting that took place in, well, it

00:01:43.180 wasn't like physically in Parliament Hill, but through the parliamentary process just a couple

00:01:49.060 of hours ago. Before I get into the fun story, actually, I have a couple of fun stories today.

00:01:54.260 I just came across this columnist position for the Globe and Mail. Now, there's a part of me that

00:02:00.280 doesn't actually want to be mean to the Globe and Mail because the Globe and Mail has been very kind

00:02:04.740 to me in the last four weeks by having my book, The Freedom Convoy, the inside story of three

00:02:10.260 weeks that shook the world at number one on their bestseller list. It's been number one in the

00:02:14.360 Toronto Star, number one in the Globe and Mail. And it was for a little bit of a period, number

00:02:20.060 one on Amazon as well. So the Globe and Mail bestseller list has been a very friendly place

00:02:24.520 for me. Nevertheless, someone sent this to me and said, oh, Andrew, this might be of interest to

00:02:29.800 you. You might want to apply for a job as a columnist with the Globe and Mail. And I was

00:02:33.700 thinking, okay, I wasn't actually looking for a new job, but I clicked through the link and just

00:02:37.400 see what they're after. And it's a editorial position for an opinion journalist. Now, I'm not

00:02:43.460 going to read the posting in full. They want someone that can do all of this stuff, that can

00:02:48.960 be a thinker, that can be cutting edge. That's all fine. Here's the great part. You know the

00:02:54.920 boilerplate you see in a lot of job postings? They have it here. The Globe and Mail is dedicated to

00:02:59.460 diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The Globe and Mail is committed to fostering an

00:03:04.320 inclusive, accessible work environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and supported.

00:03:09.720 we believe this strengthens our business and our journalism we welcome and encourage applications

00:03:15.600 from individuals from all groups it goes on but that's the gist of it and you may think okay what's

00:03:21.960 the big deal they're committed to diversity so is every corporation the paragraph before that

00:03:27.380 has the vaccination policy for the globe and mail columnist all offers of employment with the globe

00:03:34.060 and mail are conditional upon the candidate being fully vaccinated to be fully vaccinated is to

00:03:39.600 find as someone who has received a full series of a vaccine, yada, yada, yada. So they're saying

00:03:45.080 here that if you want to work for the Globe and Mail, to be a columnist or presumably any other

00:03:49.540 job, you have to be fully vaccinated. And in the same breath, they're saying that all offers of

00:03:55.600 employment are conditional upon it. And then, but we're inclusive. We don't turn any groups away.

00:04:00.660 Everyone's allowed to apply. We don't discriminate. And I find it to be fascinating that these two

00:04:06.560 things no one seems to mind being next to each other. There are very few in the media, clearly,

00:04:11.740 that are going to take umbrage with the fact that you can commit to being an inclusive and diverse

00:04:17.180 employer while also being explicitly, not just tacitly, but explicitly discriminatory against

00:04:24.880 a group, the unvaccinated. And that is entirely okay. That is completely fine. And if you want to 1.00

00:04:31.700 read the position it's posted online i tweeted the screenshot you have to be a proven self-starter

00:04:37.140 an authoritative voice experience and expertise to weigh in on important social and political

00:04:42.100 issues of the day but you aren't qualified to do that if you aren't vaccinated and interestingly

00:04:48.980 enough i i also wonder here how they're justifying it because they say that they're trying to be

00:04:54.900 flexible so i don't even think you need to check into the office so this is a vaccination mandate

00:05:00.420 for a work-from-home writer position at the Globe and Mail.

00:05:05.480 But you know what?

00:05:06.280 Congratulations to whomever the successful candidate may be.

00:05:09.840 I got off on a tangent there.

00:05:11.260 What I actually wanted to talk about is Chrystia Freeland,

00:05:14.700 the Deputy Prime Minister, doing this tremendous display of gaslighting

00:05:19.660 as though Canadians have forgotten the last six months.

00:05:23.740 She tweeted this, and I'm going to try to get through this with a straight face.

00:05:27.320 I can't make any guarantees, but I'm going to try to do it without laughing. Truckers and

00:05:32.040 trucking companies are essential to our economy. Hang on. I can do it. No, no, no. Let me go back.

00:05:40.040 Let me do this. Truckers and trucking companies are essential to our economy.

00:05:48.780 that's why our government no i can't do it that's why our government has been working so hard to

00:05:58.100 keep our trucking industry strong okay i made it through i can't read it again so you'll just have

00:06:07.080 to read it on the screen there if you want or if you're listening on audio just rewind it that's

00:06:11.020 why they're working to keep the trucking industry strong so there are a couple of issues i have with

00:06:17.160 this. It is August 8th right now. February 8th was about six months ago, which means we are

00:06:22.860 just a few days away from the six-month anniversary of the federal government

00:06:26.700 invoking the Emergencies Act. And it was Chrystia Freeland herself, who also sits

00:06:31.680 as Canada's finance minister, who during that announcement got up and said, we are going to

00:06:36.760 freeze your bank account if you have a truck that's involved at the convoy, even if you aren't

00:06:42.100 there, who said, we're going to suspend your driver's license. We're going to suspend your

00:06:45.920 insurance we're going to come after you on all fronts we are going to make it so that you can't

00:06:52.300 pay your mortgage you can't pay your employees you can't make your payroll you can't even continue

00:06:57.920 to work as a trucker for a time because you dare to protest our vaccine mandate so it makes me

00:07:05.340 wonder when she says that they're trying to keep the trucking industry strong are they talking

00:07:10.620 about the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, which was not necessary, was not

00:07:16.140 rooted in science, was coming to an industry that had been dominated by these people that we held

00:07:21.200 up rightfully so as our essential worker heroes throughout the pandemic? Or is she keeping the

00:07:26.700 trucking industry strong by continuing to keep that punitive vaccine mandate in place, even as

00:07:33.320 all of the vaccine mandates for air travel, which strikes me as something that happens in a lot more

00:07:37.780 close contact than trucking across the border does have gone away. And all of the provincial

00:07:43.300 mandates for things have gone away. And it's not to say that any of those things were justified,

00:07:48.220 but the federal government's science has always been written on the back of a napkin here,

00:07:54.060 if it even exists in that form that is as sophisticated as that sounds. And I'm going

00:07:59.800 to talk about this in a little bit more detail, but I want to talk first off about the air transit

00:08:04.460 situation right now. I've just been doing a little bit of air travel the last couple of months

00:08:08.960 because I found that everything that has been canceled the last two years, conferences,

00:08:13.740 in-person events, they all seem to be coming back with a vengeance. You've got families that

00:08:17.980 haven't been able to take a holiday in basically three years that are going away on summer vacation.

00:08:23.860 And all of this is coming to the point right now where the airport situation does not seem to be

00:08:29.520 getting significantly better. There was one story that came up today, which I almost found laughable

00:08:36.300 as Toronto Pearson Airport bragged about how only 44, no, not only, how a whole 44% of flights last

00:08:44.280 week left on time. And this is something that is being trumpeted as an achievement, that less than

00:08:49.240 half of the flights scheduled for Pearson left on time. And sometimes the delays might be 10,

00:08:54.720 15 minutes, maybe the delays are hours and hours. And you compare this with the fact that some

00:09:00.100 airlines are lumping everything under this broad category of not being in their control so that

00:09:06.760 they don't have to pay compensation to passengers that are displaced. Well, a committee of members

00:09:12.180 of parliament is looking into the airport situation right now. They had a brief meeting today and it

00:09:17.940 sounds like Omar Al-Ghabra, the transport minister, will have to take their questions, which is a step 0.99

00:09:23.540 in the right direction, but it's like the whole 44% thing. It might be a step in the right 1.00

00:09:27.760 direction, but I wouldn't call it a solution. Joining me now is the conservative MP and

00:09:32.800 transport critic, Melissa Lantzman. Melissa, good to talk to you. Thanks for coming on today.

00:09:37.880 Hey, thanks for having me.

00:09:39.780 I mean, let's start with the 44% number here. Is this anything that anyone should be happy with?

00:09:46.200 Well, I don't think that any progress at Pearson, like you said, is meaningful in any way

00:09:52.620 or has improved in any way for for any passenger travel. We're still we've made international

00:09:58.500 headlines where, you know, Pearson being the worst, Montreal being second worst. I don't

00:10:03.180 think that's a metric that anybody wants to be on. And I think, you know, we're at the peak of

00:10:08.860 travel season still. And so the government could let the peak travel season peter out and claim

00:10:16.020 victory. But I think the damage is done on our reputation. I know many people who avoid Pearson

00:10:21.860 and at all costs. There's an economic challenge too. I mean, one area where airlines try to make

00:10:27.860 money is by letting people connect through Canada. So you could theoretically fly from Heathrow to

00:10:33.840 New York and have a layover in Toronto. I don't think any traveler is booking an itinerary like

00:10:39.200 that now. You've got people that, and this is anecdotal, but it's happening in large enough

00:10:43.940 numbers that I don't think it's inconsequential. People that have said, you know, I'm just going

00:10:47.840 to hold off on my trip now because I just am seeing all the horror stories of baggage terminals

00:10:53.900 and customs lines and not wanting to do it. And, you know, the reality is that all of these

00:10:59.460 different problems are coming from different places. We've got problems with staffing in

00:11:04.140 the airlines and with customs shortages, and we've got problems that exist at other airports as well.

00:11:09.480 I mean, Heathrow and Dublin have had their challenges. How much is at the government's

00:11:14.120 feet in your view, the Canadian government's feet? Well, look, the government is, you know,

00:11:19.260 they control CAATSA, which are the guys that check, that screen you. They control CBSA,

00:11:24.600 which are, which are primarily the backlogs in, in our customs hall. You've heard stories. You've

00:11:32.640 probably, you know, I've, I've seen you, I've seen you internationally in the last little while. And

00:11:37.380 I, I'm not sure that if you've had problems getting off, but they're holding people on

00:11:41.900 planes for much longer. So the government's abdicated its responsibility by touting these

00:11:47.960 metrics. And we're just not sure, you know, what these metrics are based on, you know, 15 ministers

00:11:52.920 security. Well, is that based on 24 hours, where for six or seven of those hours, there's nobody

00:11:58.020 that goes through security? We have a lot of questions for the minister. Today, we had a

00:12:02.780 committee meeting to call the minister. We'll see the minister before the 19th of August in front

00:12:09.100 of our committee for two hours, and we'll ask him about the inconsistencies on our check-in

00:12:15.420 standard, which is nowhere else in the world does anybody tell you to come to the airport

00:12:19.160 three hours early. Or what he said on critical issues facing our airports, like whether

00:12:26.340 he talked about none of this being staffing or demand, and then he talked about staffing and

00:12:33.600 and demand being the problem, we're not even at 100% of our travel. So the fact that we're number

00:12:39.380 one and number two for the worst, that's a huge problem for our economy. It's a huge problem for

00:12:45.440 travel and tourism. And it's a huge problem that doesn't seem to be going away for travelers.

00:12:50.380 When you mentioned the timeline earlier, I think that's a very real issue. I mean,

00:12:54.200 the big family vacations are going to be done in basically four weeks time when kids go back to

00:12:59.240 school and at that point i think it's a race to see how much we can make this work so business

00:13:04.520 travel can pick back up and then we're looking at you know how thanksgiving long weekend and then

00:13:09.480 christmas but i mean at this point if the government is in denial that there's a problem

00:13:14.200 at least publicly a solution really isn't on the table so how much more can you get from a

00:13:20.680 government that's been you know so ostrichy about this and just sticking its head in the sand and

00:13:25.160 not really addressing this even if the minister is going before your committee in a couple of weeks

00:13:29.400 time max we want to see that this doesn't happen again or that it doesn't continue to happen uh

00:13:34.920 business travel is uh you know is almost uh is almost back or certainly is returning and you've

00:13:40.840 got to think that if you're coming here from new york or from pennsylvania uh and and it's an hour

00:13:46.440 to get here and you're three hours on the on the tarmac nobody's going to want to come we want to

00:13:51.400 explore issues like Arrive Can. We've called for scrapping that app and we haven't seen any

00:13:57.880 movement or any even accommodation from the government. So again, lots of questions, lots

00:14:02.920 of things to fix. And we want to ensure that if we do face the situation again, that we aren't

00:14:07.640 caught off guard like we were. Yeah, I think that's a huge, huge problem here. And it sounds

00:14:13.720 like someone in the background has been on the tarmac a little bit too long. And I'm totally

00:14:17.160 sympathetic, I must say. But the arrive can one is huge. And again, the government is really where

00:14:23.080 the arrive can and they haven't owned up to it. But it's clear that they're trying to make this

00:14:26.680 a permanent fixture of travel. And again, the inconsistency, they're telling us this speeds

00:14:31.140 things up, it makes things easier. But all it does is put more barriers when you have people

00:14:35.880 that haven't traveled in two and three years that are not particularly savvy, they aren't

00:14:40.700 technologically capable necessarily. And they're trying to do all this for the first time. And

00:14:45.120 And you're right. I mean, you've traveled. Obviously, I've traveled. We sort of have tried

00:14:48.980 to keep up with what the rules are and stay within them. But for a lot of people that haven't done

00:14:53.820 this, they turn on the news. All they see are the examples of things that are really telling them

00:14:59.500 why now is not the time to travel. And it's incredibly unfair to people that for the longest

00:15:03.880 time couldn't travel because of quarantine restrictions, vaccine mandates, couldn't travel

00:15:09.020 because of the COVID situation. They didn't feel safe and healthy. And now the thing that's holding

00:15:14.140 them up is entirely, entirely manageable and preventable. For sure. The government has

00:15:20.580 staked, frankly, its entire border economy, again, on a $25 million app that they've paid for.

00:15:29.960 And it's not only just the people not having confidence in being able to use it. There's

00:15:34.740 real issues. Perhaps you don't have a smartphone. Perhaps English and French isn't your first

00:15:38.740 language. There's been no accommodation. Even making it voluntary would be at least a step

00:15:43.360 in the right direction, that if the government claimed this app would work, then maybe people

00:15:49.020 would actually use it. But we don't have that option, and we've seen it. I've been to Windsor,

00:15:54.160 I've been to Niagara in the last couple of weeks, and we're seeing there's no American plates at

00:15:58.800 the duty-free. There's no American plates coming over the border. Motor coach traffic is down to

00:16:05.520 maybe one or two buses a day, whereas you would see 40 in this peak travel. So the problem is

00:16:12.380 very real and the fact that the government's not addressing it not talking about it and not even

00:16:17.040 acknowledging it suggests that I think they're completely out of touch yeah I think you're very

00:16:23.300 right about that I know you've been putting a lot of the pressure on yourself against this government

00:16:27.380 and I would encourage you to keep it up obviously we need some reckoning here and again this is

00:16:32.260 affecting people that aren't conservative that aren't liberals they just want to live their lives

00:16:35.500 so something's got to give Melissa Lansman thanks very much thanks for having me that was

00:16:41.200 conservative transport critic Melissa Lansman. And I have to point out here that when we're

00:16:46.280 talking about, I mean, Arrive Can is, I think, one of the biggest examples of just creating

00:16:51.840 hurdles, creating barriers. And, you know, if you've done this thing multiple times, maybe it's

00:16:56.980 not that difficult for you because you log in, it has your information safe. But there's, I think,

00:17:01.380 a principal aspect here, which is that you are not supposed to need to basically ask the government

00:17:06.520 permission to come back into your own country, which having this thing as a requirement

00:17:10.860 is basically predicated on that very premise

00:17:14.100 that when you're coming back to Canada,

00:17:16.520 if you have not done this,

00:17:18.500 you will be fined thousands of dollars.

00:17:20.640 And sure, there are all these videos

00:17:22.120 circulating on Twitter now

00:17:23.460 of people that get a lenient border guard.

00:17:26.020 I just saw one this morning

00:17:27.100 and they get a lenient border guard

00:17:29.300 who just waves them through

00:17:30.880 when they haven't done it.

00:17:31.920 And that's fine.

00:17:32.760 But the whole point is

00:17:33.500 these things are not supposed to be

00:17:35.240 where you have to be having a really good day

00:17:37.920 to avoid paying thousands of dollars

00:17:39.720 to enter your own country.

00:17:40.860 It's supposed to be that you can show up, and if you have a Canadian passport, you can just hold that passport up and come into your country.

00:17:47.700 Maybe you've got to pay customs or duties on this.

00:17:50.740 But the whole point is, this is not how it's supposed to work.

00:17:55.760 And nothing, nothing right now in this process is working.

00:17:59.920 And in some ways, I agree it's insensitive.

00:18:02.680 We have an inflation crisis.

00:18:04.260 We have a cost-of-living crisis.

00:18:06.060 Travel that involves a vacation by air.

00:18:08.960 I mean, air travel right now is a luxury for a lot of people, and I'm not trying to be insensitive to those who are not able to travel right now, to those who don't feel safe traveling, to those who, for whatever reason, because of vaccine mandates or whatever the case may be, are not traveling.

00:18:24.400 That's fine.

00:18:24.840 But I'm saying that there is right now an issue, and people are trying to move.

00:18:28.720 people that have been saving for two three years they've been trying to go on a vacation maybe

00:18:33.800 since 2019 but they had or they booked it in 2019 and they had to cancel it and rebook it and cancel

00:18:39.860 it and rebook it and right now the issue is not some other country's entry requirement the issue

00:18:45.740 is not the vaccine mandate the issue is a government that can't get its bleep together

00:18:51.240 we're doing a live show so you can't censor it in real time a government that can't get its bleep

00:18:56.380 together to such a point where people can then continue to carry on and travel and live their

00:19:02.380 lives as they did before. And when, interestingly enough, we hear talk about how demand is through

00:19:09.980 the roof, supply hasn't yet caught up. I live in London, Ontario. And it used to be that if you

00:19:15.600 wanted to fly anywhere, you could go to the little London, Ontario airport, which I absolutely adore.

00:19:20.800 I love the London, Ontario airport because there's never more than like two people in front of you

00:19:24.760 in the security line, but it's a busy airport. It is a busy little airport. And they used to have,

00:19:30.400 I don't know the exact number, but I think it was like 10 flights a day on Air Canada alone

00:19:34.420 that would go, you could go to Ottawa directly, you could go to Montreal directly, and then you'd

00:19:39.280 have like seven or eight options to get to Toronto to connect to a flight that's going somewhere else.

00:19:45.500 And WestJet also has a bunch. You could fly to Toronto, you could also fly to Calgary Direct,

00:19:50.420 and there are some other smaller airlines like Swoop that service London as well.

00:19:54.760 That one at the height of the pandemic was down to one flight a day.

00:20:00.800 They canceled the Montreal, they canceled the Ottawa, and you could fly to Toronto at

00:20:05.600 six in the morning and the flight from Toronto back to London, Ontario, left Toronto at 9.30

00:20:10.880 p.m. and got in at, you know, 10.05 p.m. or 10.10 p.m. or whatever it is.

00:20:16.660 But the reason I share that with you is just to say that at the height of the pandemic,

00:20:20.540 when COVID restrictions had decimated air travel, they slashed that service by 90%.

00:20:27.280 Right now, demand is through the roof. Every single London, Toronto, Toronto, London flight

00:20:33.520 I've been on has been absolutely full, in some cases overbooked. But they only have like three

00:20:39.340 a day now, maybe four, but I think it's at three a day. So there's an example, 2019, 100%, 10 flights,

00:20:46.000 2020, early 2021, down to one flight, and now they're up to three or four. But the demand is

00:20:53.180 there. The people are there. And that's just one airport, one airline. You then expand that.

00:21:00.520 A lot of those people's, oh, wow, the London to Toronto flight's full. Let me just drive to

00:21:04.120 Toronto and get on there. The security situation, that is within the government's control. The

00:21:10.040 border screening, that is within the government's control. The mask mandate, this is a hilarious 0.98

00:21:15.380 one. So I didn't realize this until last week, but the federal government quietly got rid of

00:21:21.760 the mask mandate for airports. So you no longer have to, by law, wear a mask in an airport in

00:21:29.340 Canada. And I only learned this when I got off a plane in Montreal. This is when I came back from

00:21:35.580 Albania, where I covered the Free Iran Global Summit. And I was walking around and I was saying,

00:21:40.560 well, this is great. I mean, no one's wearing a mask. The passengers aren't wearing masks.

00:21:43.700 And then I noticed the staff weren't wearing masks either.

00:21:46.400 And I'm like, okay, is this like, has Quebec just finally become the rebellious province

00:21:50.600 I wanted it to be all along?

00:21:52.200 And then I looked it up and realized, oh my goodness, you actually don't need to wear

00:21:56.140 one of these in an airport.

00:21:58.220 And then I got to Toronto and in Toronto, the airport was mandating a mask above and

00:22:03.840 beyond the federal mandate.

00:22:05.080 Now I didn't comply with it because again, if the federal mandate's no mask and they

00:22:09.180 can't really arrest you for it, that was all I needed.

00:22:11.660 And no one questioned me.

00:22:12.680 No one stopped me.

00:22:13.700 and the mask mandate I don't think is slowing things down but it's a reminder that life is

00:22:20.340 not back to normal and I think that the government is trying to prevent people from traveling

00:22:24.520 the government is the biggest barrier to normalcy the government is the biggest barrier to living

00:22:30.520 the life that was robbed of us the last two and a half years and I mean people have said on twitter

00:22:35.840 this little conspiracy I don't even know conspiracy is the right word but this conspiratorially

00:22:41.860 thinking, sort of theorizing thing. Okay, a conspiracy theory. That the government is trying

00:22:47.740 to basically prohibit travel without coming right out and saying it. That COVID gave them a great

00:22:53.000 opportunity to have us not fly because, you know, our emissions and all that. And I don't know if

00:22:59.160 they're that competent. I don't know if they're that capable. But what's true is that they don't

00:23:04.200 believe their own crap. Government does not believe its own nonsense. And if you want proof of that, 1.00

00:23:10.080 Just look at Justin Trudeau getting off the plane in Costa Rica for his family vacation.

00:23:40.080 did you look at that do you know what i'm looking at i see justin trudeau's face

00:23:47.600 and i see everyone else's face and i see his kids face i see the rcmp officer's face i see

00:23:55.000 lots of people's faces on there and i'm not used to seeing that around airplanes

00:23:59.300 something but i don't maybe the camera was wrong maybe it was like one of those x-ray vision things

00:24:04.020 or maybe they weren't wearing masks.

00:24:07.220 Now, I should say Costa Rica does not have a mask mandate,

00:24:11.620 let alone one that applies to airport tarmacs.

00:24:14.800 They were not masked on the tarmac.

00:24:17.420 But can we play that clip one more time,

00:24:20.140 just the first couple seconds of it?

00:24:31.120 Okay, so it's possible.

00:24:34.020 that at the exact second they cross the threshold of plane, not plane,

00:24:40.340 they rip the mask off in one motion and it's nowhere to be found in their hands.

00:24:44.800 They like just, they rip it right off and put it behind their back

00:24:47.800 and leave it on the floor of the plane.

00:24:49.380 So as to give the illusion when they walk off the plane

00:24:53.380 that they were unmasked the whole time, but they weren't.

00:24:55.580 They were totally masked.

00:24:57.180 I mean, maybe there's something like as you walk past the threshold,

00:25:00.220 as you walk through that door,

00:25:01.480 there's a machine that comes and just snips the snips the little elastics on the ears

00:25:06.420 and the mask just flies off and it's like maximum freedom maximum facial freedom that is possible

00:25:12.460 or if I may posit an alternative theory just one alternative theory that they weren't wearing the

00:25:22.300 mask on the plane I know I know it was more realistic to think of like the magic little

00:25:26.200 robot thing that snips the ear loops. But I think I just maybe just hear me out. They might not have

00:25:33.060 been wearing masks on the plane. Now, what's the big deal, Andrew? You hate wearing masks. Yeah,

00:25:38.240 well, that may be true. But I have never mandated someone else wear a mask, least of all mandate

00:25:44.980 that they wear a mask on an airplane, on a Canadian Armed Forces Challenger plane. I have never made

00:25:53.940 that a requirement of air travel. They have. So the fact that Justin Trudeau and his family

00:26:01.380 would be put on a no-fly list and greeted by law enforcement on the tarmac if they were to

00:26:07.320 behave that way on an Air Canada or WestJet flight, but not on their own private family

00:26:14.580 vacations, suggests they do not believe masking is as required to preserve safety when you're

00:26:22.100 traveling through the airwaves towards your beach vacation as they perhaps pretend otherwise.

00:26:28.700 Again, I'm not ruling out the magic airplane ear loop snipper machine. This is an entirely

00:26:34.680 plausible feature of it. If we're going just really just pie in the sky idea, they just might

00:26:39.640 not have been wearing a mask on the plane. That's technically possible, but surely, surely they would

00:26:44.440 never stoop to such levels of hypocrisy. As my late friend Kathy Shadle said when I used to point

00:26:49.960 now, but it's so hypocritical when the left did this and Justin Trudeau did that. She said to me,

00:26:55.160 Andrew, you're overthinking it. It's liberals. It's different when we do it. And that really

00:26:59.800 does explain a lot of it is that these arguments of hypocrisy really just don't seem all that

00:27:05.300 compelling because they don't care. They genuinely play by different rules. When Chrystia Freeland

00:27:11.600 wants to be the only one at the G20 summit wearing a mask, that's fine. And then at the 0.72

00:27:16.520 same summit when Justin Trudeau is having a private audience with Queen Elizabeth II,

00:27:20.540 the 90-something-year-old woman, and he's unmasked, that's fine too. And how dare you

00:27:25.440 question that? How dare you point that out and say, well, maybe the masking outdoors and the

00:27:29.940 meeting with the non-agenarian indoor thing, you got it a little backwards. No, it's just they play 1.00

00:27:35.760 by different rules. And it's that simple. So for the rest of us who are forced to go along with

00:27:43.200 this, who are thinking about maybe we don't take the Costa Rica vacation because I don't know if

00:27:49.060 my bags are going to make it home. I don't know if my bags are going to make it to Costa Rica.

00:27:52.660 I don't know if I'm going to be thrown in the slammer because I didn't do the arrive can right.

00:27:57.140 And then you see Justin Trudeau just waltz off the plane for two weeks in Costa Rica.

00:28:02.620 And that is something that to Canadians is just life going back to normal. I should have been

00:28:07.960 more specific. When I said I wanted life to go back to normal, I meant for everyone. I didn't

00:28:12.760 just mean for the Trudeau family that like that was again my bad I should have been more specific

00:28:17.340 I didn't want just them to be the beneficiaries of normalcy but that is exactly where we are right

00:28:22.880 now it is unbelievable and again it's it's examples of gaslighting same as that tweet from

00:28:28.400 Christia Freeland I started the show talking about where we are to believe that this government is

00:28:33.040 pro-trucker and is doing everything it can to protect the trucking industry while throwing

00:28:38.160 truckers licenses away while imposing vaccine mandates on them and while freezing their bank

00:28:43.600 accounts and if you point out the double standard well you're the hater you're the bad one just

00:28:49.020 before we close things out here i want to say again thank you i've been trying to pepper this

00:28:53.820 show with a bit of gratitude to those of you who have sent me your tweets and emails and facebook

00:28:57.940 messages saying you have enjoyed reading my book you can see it over my shoulder there the freedom

00:29:03.220 Convoy the inside story of three weeks that shook the world and I should say there is a new cover

00:29:08.660 that just came out this week that we'll throw up on the screen there it's got a little edit just a

00:29:13.300 little change we haven't changed the coloring but we have changed and added that little gold stamp

00:29:18.340 there that is a number one Amazon and Globe and Mail bestseller because it is it's been a number

00:29:23.640 one on the Globe and Star list for the last four weeks and hopefully it will continue going not

00:29:28.860 because I wrote this for any sort of commercial success,

00:29:31.860 but I wrote it because I thought it was a story

00:29:33.680 that needed to be told.

00:29:34.840 And I was so proud and am so proud and happy

00:29:37.700 that I had to play a small role or got to play,

00:29:40.100 I should say, a small role in telling that story.

00:29:42.700 So if you haven't picked it up, you can get it on Amazon.

00:29:45.460 You can't get it on Indigo store shelves

00:29:47.240 because they are still for inexplicable reasons

00:29:49.860 banning it from their hallowed store shelves.

00:29:52.640 But you can get it from the Indigo website

00:29:54.900 if you want to give that company your money

00:29:56.360 or Amazon or Sutherland House Books dot com.

00:30:00.720 And I am so grateful.

00:30:01.960 And I'm going to actually on Wednesday, if you're in Toronto, I'm going to be doing a

00:30:05.520 little event at the Albany Club and you can get details on the Albany Club website if

00:30:10.600 you want to come on out to that.

00:30:12.020 But that does it for us for today.

00:30:13.620 We will be back later this week with another edition of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk

00:30:17.520 Show, including an interview with UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean.

00:30:21.560 That is coming up in the days ahead.

00:30:23.600 We'll talk to you soon, Canada.

00:30:24.540 Thank you, God bless, and good day to you all.

Juno News - August 08, 2022

Chrystia Freeland pretends she supports truckers

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