Juno News - April 19, 2019


How low will the Trudeau Liberals go for votes？

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Sikh Justin Trudeau Jody Wilson-Raybould Jane Philpott Andrew Scheer Ralph Goodale Ujjal Dessange
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A new development in which shows just how far Justin Trudeau is willing to go to get people's votes, including revising non-partisan national security reports to keep them in the liberal fold, is a troubling development that raises the question: How far will Liberals go for votes?

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00:00:00.000 I'm finding myself longing for those days many months ago when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
00:00:14.880 was saying I'm gonna run a clean campaign in the 2019 election we're gonna be above board we're
00:00:21.360 not gonna punch below the belt remember he was messaging that back in December in January at
00:00:26.580 his events with donors and so forth now a lot of us rolled our eyes then and we know come on that's
00:00:31.980 not really the case he's just trying to frame himself as the positive guy the guy who is doing
00:00:37.260 the clean campaign meanwhile they're gonna continue to punch below the belt whenever they
00:00:41.400 have the opportunity to but at least he was pretending at least he was paying lip service
00:00:46.440 to the notion right well that was then this is now ever since lab scam broke things have gotten
00:00:52.020 pretty dirty whether it's dealing with Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould in a pretty
00:00:56.460 gloves-off way and sending people out there to smear their reputations or whether it's banding
00:01:01.920 about that phrase white supremacy as much as you can trying to affix the label to Andrew Scheer make
00:01:07.980 it a sort of guilt by association thing I'm kind of shocked to see that the Prime Minister himself
00:01:12.480 is actually tweeting this and saying this it's one thing to have your proxies in the media or the lower
00:01:17.760 level caucus members out and about and making those accusations but when the Prime Minister himself
00:01:22.980 is saying these sorts of kind of low blows I mean it really doesn't look good on the office of it but
00:01:28.800 they've made that call now there's a new development in just how far Justin Trudeau is willing to go
00:01:35.160 to get people's votes and apparently it includes revising non-partisan national security reports to
00:01:42.420 keep people in the liberal fold so backtrack a bit and one of the Public Safety Canada reports the
00:01:48.240 annual reports that looks at terror threats included a reference to Sikh extremism as something that
00:01:53.480 security agencies were were keeping an eye on now it wouldn't have been in there if it wasn't true but
00:01:59.400 this still outraged some people in the Sikh community they wanted it taken out even though at
00:02:04.140 no point does it say all Sikhs it's making it clear that they just have a concern with Sikh extremists
00:02:10.140 and by the way this was not the focus of the whole report the Sikh element was pretty small it was
00:02:15.060 really just a few sentences but that wasn't enough for some activists they said they were so unhappy that
00:02:20.760 Justin Trudeau would be banned from some of their celebrations their kalsa day events and parades the sort of 1.00
00:02:26.940 places where politicians like to go and put on the outfits and pander to votes these activists made it
00:02:33.360 clear that well this may come back to hurt Justin Trudeau and the liberals during election time so rather than
00:02:38.700 we'll sit down with these people and try to explain no it doesn't mean everyone it just means hey it
00:02:44.340 just means the extremists I mean that's what the report says it should be obvious no instead of that
00:02:49.140 they changed the report Ralph Goodell ordered a review of it after these protesters complained
00:02:55.980 whatever that even means how does that even make it eligible for a review protesters don't like it but
00:03:01.620 this is what the report says they took the words out and they significantly watered it down wow after
00:03:10.200 these people have basically said we're angry you can't come to our events we're not going to vote
00:03:14.760 for you if you have this in so they go oh votes are on the line we will change the report it is
00:03:19.620 incredibly troublesome I was speaking to Ujjal Dusanj who's a former federal liberal cabinet minister the
00:03:25.320 former NDP premier of British Columbia and himself a previous victim of radical Sikh extremist violence
00:03:32.520 he had been assaulted in the 1980s he spoke about this with me and he said this is incredibly alarming
00:03:39.000 and Canadians should be aware of the fact that basically our national security agencies have been
00:03:44.640 compromised this just leaves the question what more are we going to see happen in the coming months as
00:03:51.320 Justin you show on the liberals fight for votes how much further will they go how low will they go we shall see