Juno News - February 13, 2019


Does Trudeau remember he once cared about transparency？


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3 minutes

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144.84357

Word count

500

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27

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1

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In the wake of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, which is actually being investigated by Canada s ethics commissioner, Justin Trudeau has proven that he has different rules for himself as Prime Minister than he did for Stephen Harper.

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00:00:01.000 In the wake of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, which is actually being investigated by Canada's Ethics Commissioner,
00:00:08.160 Justin Trudeau has proven that he has different rules for himself as Prime Minister than he did for Stephen Harper.
00:00:15.340 I've just got one question for Justin Trudeau.
00:00:18.760 Do you remember?
00:00:21.640 Yes, do you remember?
00:00:23.240 Do you remember when Stephen Harper was the Prime Minister and you thought that he was doing things a little bit too sketchily
00:00:31.080 and you had all of these bold, grand plans for transparency?
00:00:35.560 You don't?
00:00:36.700 Well, thankfully I can give you a bit of a reminder here.
00:00:39.920 2013, Justin Trudeau tweets,
00:00:42.400 Canadians have high expectations of me and I intend to meet them by continuing to raise the bar on transparency and openness.
00:00:50.860 He's very correct.
00:00:51.660 Canadians do, in fact, have high expectations for the Prime Minister.
00:00:56.280 At the time, a man who wanted to leave the country as Prime Minister.
00:00:59.600 And this whole thing triggered Justin Trudeau to make transparency and openness the cornerstone
00:01:04.500 of what would become his campaign for Canada's premiership.
00:01:09.080 In 2014, he tweeted the following,
00:01:12.140 Liberal Party of Canada wants to raise the bar on transparency and accountability,
00:01:17.260 not only in Parliament, but in government too.
00:01:21.660 This was something that Justin Trudeau would often talk about,
00:01:24.820 raising the bar to bring Canadians into focus, he thought,
00:01:29.360 on what he would do for them
00:01:31.720 and what policies he would implement to make the government more accountable.
00:01:37.120 Transparency means government data should be opened by default.
00:01:41.440 My plan makes that happen.
00:01:43.240 As in, things should be available to the public unless there's a reason they shouldn't be,
00:01:48.340 but the default should always be openness and transparency.
00:01:52.500 Proud that Liberals are starting the process of proactively disclosing expenses.
00:01:57.020 We're not just talking about transparency, we're acting.
00:02:00.620 That's from September 19, 2013.
00:02:03.480 You know legendary Canadian star Rafi?
00:02:07.040 Well, Justin Trudeau told Rafi,
00:02:08.800 personally, I promise to Rafi is like a legally binding oath in Canada. 0.85
00:02:14.160 The following, in 2015,
00:02:15.640 Liberals have a sweeping plan for transparency in government.
00:02:20.140 That includes the PMO.
00:02:22.240 In 2013, Justin Trudeau tweets the following,
00:02:26.760 RT to call on the Prime Minister to testify on the PMO ethics scandal under oath.
00:02:34.260 He added, a month later,
00:02:36.160 Canadians deserve leaders who tell the truth.
00:02:38.800 Call on the PM to testify under oath if you agree.
00:02:43.100 Now let's fast forward to 2019.
00:02:45.120 CTV headline,
00:02:46.060 Attorney General sees no justification for probe of alleged PMO interference
00:02:51.860 in SNC-Lavalin case.
00:02:55.460 So again, I ask you, Justin Trudeau, one very simple question.
00:02:59.620 Do you remember when you thought that transparency was something that you owed Canadians?
00:03:05.900 Do you remember when you thought the Prime Minister should testify under oath
00:03:09.500 if there was a question about ethics?
00:03:11.660 Do you remember when you thought government data should be opened by default?
00:03:15.480 Do you remember when you were offering just platitudes and bloviations?
00:03:21.860 Well, you certainly should because that's all you're doing now.
00:03:25.460 For True North, I'm Andrew Lutt.