Juno News - June 27, 2022


How many Liberal ministers does it take to change a light bulb？


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2 minutes

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Word count

434

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34


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Justin Trudeau and his government have finally acknowledged that they have a problem when it comes to service delivery. That there are problems with the passport offices and the situation at airports. They're planning to solve the problem. Here's what they're going to do.

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00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau and his government have finally acknowledged that they have a problem when it
00:00:03.820 comes to service delivery. That there are problems with the passport offices and the situation at
00:00:08.660 airports. But good news, they're on it. They're planning to solve the problem. Here's what
00:00:14.040 they're going to do. Justin Trudeau has announced the formation of a new task force. Ten cabinet
00:00:20.260 ministers. Ten. We're going to bring together the best and the brightest of the Trudeau cabinet
00:00:24.360 and they are going to solve the problem of the lineups at the passport offices. Is this for real?
00:00:30.660 Yes, it's for real. Apparently this is what they think they need to do to solve what really should
00:00:36.900 be a rudimentary problem. Are there not many thousands of people who work at these departments
00:00:41.780 who are senior managers, senior bureaucrats, and they have to deal with the basic nuts and bolts stuff
00:00:47.500 to get it going, to get it functioning. And is this not a basic nuts and bolts thing? Why aren't you
00:00:52.300 processing the passport sooner? You know, when you have a situation in your workplace where you work
00:00:57.760 and they find that the widget making machine is broken, what do you do? Do you go, we got to form
00:01:02.080 a committee to write a report? No, you say, fix the widget making machine. And maybe if it's a
00:01:06.740 complicated problem, you say, okay, we got to bring in this external guy. We got to hire this guy.
00:01:10.460 Be here by tomorrow. We need you here, buddy. This is really important. Fix the widget making machine.
00:01:14.940 Or you have a problem at home where the dishwasher is broken. Well, what do you do? You tinker
00:01:18.680 around yourself and maybe you succeed. Or you don't. You call the guy in. Get here tomorrow. I need you
00:01:22.720 to fix it. You don't form a committee. You don't bring in 20 people to sit around and talk about it.
00:01:28.200 You know, how many liberal cabinet ministers does it take to change a light bulb? How many liberal
00:01:33.180 cabinet ministers does it take to expedite passport lines? This is quite something that they're not
00:01:39.040 looking at this as, yeah, we got a problem here, a sort of run-of-the-mill logjam issue. Let's solve it.
00:01:44.380 Let's just call people and say, get this done. I want this solved in 72 hours. Apparently this is
00:01:48.660 some sort of existential rethink of how government works and they need to bring together an entire
00:01:54.220 task force. Unbelievable. I think this is just only going to worsen things and slow down any solution.