Juno News - August 13, 2022


Freeland laughs in the face of Canadian farmers


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3 minutes

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186.70657

Word count

603

Sentence count

46

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland visits a vineyard in Mi'kma'ki, British Columbia. She talks about how she grew up on a farm and wants to learn how a farmer runs his tractor. Then she makes a cheeky little land acknowledgement.

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00:00:00.000 So you guys must have seen this clip.
00:00:01.540 If you haven't, take a look at it.
00:00:03.100 It's our very professional and very genuine Deputy Prime Minister,
00:00:07.300 Chrystia Freeland, our favorite politician in this country.
00:00:10.060 I appreciate that consideration, Hans-Peter.
00:00:12.860 But as we were discussing, I grew up on a farm.
00:00:17.080 And there are no people in the world who work harder than farmers.
00:00:22.940 And so I'm so happy to be here on a farm, on a vineyard,
00:00:27.400 to learn about the wonderful work that is being done here every day.
00:00:31.200 And I got a little bit of a lesson in running a vineyard.
00:00:36.900 I learned a little bit about what you do with the vines and stuff.
00:00:39.900 I'd like to spend a little more time seeing how you run your tractors.
00:00:44.000 So that was wonderful.
00:00:45.740 And no, really, I'm very interested.
00:00:47.780 It was great and just great to be here.
00:00:51.180 So let me start by acknowledging that we are gathered in Mi'kma'ki,
00:00:55.100 the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kma'ki people.
00:00:58.540 There are no people in the world who work harder than farmers.
00:01:01.620 I grew up on a farm.
00:01:02.800 I'm just like one of you.
00:01:04.300 Doesn't she sound so genuine, guys?
00:01:05.800 Doesn't she sound just like one of us?
00:01:08.520 Just like one of the farmers that runs this country?
00:01:11.500 There's the food that you like.
00:01:16.620 Your favorite type.
00:01:21.560 There you go.
00:01:23.680 Kind like you know me.
00:01:26.100 She says all of that.
00:01:27.540 Well, behind her cheeky little grin, 0.96
00:01:30.640 she knows full well what she is about to do to Canadian farmers. 0.81
00:01:35.240 She knows full well that her emissions reduction scheme,
00:01:38.480 which will cripple Canadian farmers, shrink crop yields,
00:01:42.180 and make the slimmest margins even slimmer,
00:01:45.600 making farmers work even harder.
00:01:47.820 She knows exactly what she's about to do.
00:01:49.520 And she is just trying to basically tell you
00:01:51.960 and tell all of us straight to our face
00:01:54.380 how much contempt she has.
00:01:56.700 It's like telling us,
00:01:57.520 it's like looking and talking down to children.
00:01:59.420 Oh, you guys work so hard.
00:02:01.580 We're just going to make your lives 10 times harder.
00:02:04.620 How about that?
00:02:05.340 I mean, just unbelievable stuff.
00:02:06.940 So in my opinion, I don't know what is worse.
00:02:09.120 The front or the back end of that clip,
00:02:10.620 they're both equally horrendous.
00:02:12.340 At the front end,
00:02:13.080 she puts on this whole fake song and dance about 0.98
00:02:15.720 how she's just like one of us.
00:02:16.840 She's just like a farmer. 1.00
00:02:18.080 You know, she grew up on a farm
00:02:19.020 and likes to see how they, you know,
00:02:20.720 work the vines and stuff, as she says.
00:02:23.020 Then at the end of the clip,
00:02:24.220 she says that she'd like to spend more time
00:02:26.040 learning how this farmer runs his tractors,
00:02:28.400 because of course she does.
00:02:29.660 And then she tops off that clip 0.99
00:02:30.900 with a cheeky little land acknowledgement,
00:02:32.240 just as a cherry on top to confirm that
00:02:34.660 actually the land that you, Mr. Farmer,
00:02:37.420 have been working over for generations,
00:02:39.600 the land that you've put blood, sweat, and tears into,
00:02:42.000 it's not actually your land.
00:02:43.600 You see, it's the unceded territory of some tribe.
00:02:47.080 It's actually their land.
00:02:48.480 Just so you know, it's not your land, Farmer.
00:02:51.120 It's indigenous land that is supposedly unceded,
00:02:54.560 which we all know is absolutely bogus.
00:02:56.340 You know, the freezing of the bank accounts,
00:02:58.140 the authoritarian policies,
00:03:00.880 the awful economic policies you've enacted
00:03:03.220 as the finance minister.
00:03:04.780 You know, I think we'll all let that go
00:03:06.620 because you've shown to us really
00:03:08.100 that you're just like one of us, Freeland.
00:03:10.120 You're just a farmer.
00:03:10.980 You're just a farmer at heart,
00:03:12.700 a true Westerner, aren't you?