Juno News - How Predictable.

00:00:00.000 yesterday news broke that surprised nobody in Canada that our prime minister

00:00:10.360 and his wife Sophie will be getting legally separated after 18 years of

00:00:14.700 marriage after this news broke reactions throughout Canada ranged from ridiculing

00:00:19.260 the man for not only failing at leading the country but also failing at being a

00:00:23.460 husband and on the other side telling everyone to shut up mind your own

00:00:27.840 business and leave the personal life of the prime minister and his family alone

00:00:32.160 and if we're being totally honest with ourselves there's likely merit to both

00:00:36.240 reactions divorce is terrible and it's the toughest on children who have no say

00:00:41.160 in the matter that being said the prime minister has made his family part of his

00:00:45.120 brand and this deals a major blow to that reputation but one reaction that our

00:00:50.820 commentariat in Canada haven't explored as much is the cultural impact of having

00:00:55.380 our prime minister leave his wife and remain on the top job whether we like

00:01:00.300 it or not Justin Trudeau is as much a Canadian symbol as he is a political

00:01:05.100 leader more celebrity than statesman if you will furthermore the prime minister

00:01:09.540 of Canada should not just be expected to lead the country through war and peace

00:01:13.380 but also to lead by example and what example does this set exactly you see just

00:01:19.260 like so many things in this country the institution of marriage has collapsed

00:01:23.700 marriage rates are declining and according to one poll more than half of

00:01:28.020 Canadian adults feel marriage isn't necessary and at the same time fertility

00:01:33.420 rates in Canada are plunging a healthy society relies on healthy marriages and

00:01:39.180 healthy families families form the bedrock of a nation and is it too much to

00:01:44.220 expect the leader of this exceptional country to be able to maintain a healthy

00:01:49.020 marriage drop a like in the video help us out by subscribing to the true north

00:01:52.140 YouTube channel and a common question for the episode is this should Canadians

00:01:56.820 expect their prime minister to be married let me know in the comments and

00:02:01.080 let's get into it here's an example of that contrast in reactions to the news

00:02:05.280 about Justin Trudeau yesterday you've got Joe Warmington's column in the

00:02:09.120 Toronto Sun yesterday which I would tend to agree with sorry but a prime

00:02:13.980 minister's personal life is not private matter the Trudeau's publicly announced

00:02:18.960 marriage separation is not a private matter as many are claiming nothing

00:02:23.220 about this should be off limits even as some of my colleagues have written they've

00:02:27.360 always been a public couple featured amongst world leaders and on magazine

00:02:31.260 covers and what made them news then does not change now this is the reality of

00:02:35.820 public life so that's Joe Warmington and the Toronto Sun and on the other side

00:02:40.860 you've got this reaction from a former political staffer Mike Gibbs he him the

00:02:47.100 personal relationship lives of the prime minister and all political party

00:02:50.360 leaders and members of parliament is none of our business period I don't gossip

00:02:54.720 on the spouses of any party leaders and neither should you which is quite an

00:02:58.440 interesting reaction from Mike Gerald Gibbs he him with a rainbow flag in his

00:03:03.540 Twitter profile because according to Kian Bexty's quick investigative work over

00:03:08.160 the counter signal well he didn't really keep to that same standard when Stephen

00:03:12.300 Harper was the prime minister this is what he was writing when a

00:03:14.940 conservative was in charge love imagining Stephen and Laureen's domestic

00:03:18.620 life Laureen is exhausted with Steve's sulking she rides horses for days if he 1.00

00:03:23.280 sulks outside his designated sulk room she also wishes Baird would stop calling she

00:03:28.920 has a better cooler friend with cooler gays so as you can see if you thought 0.96

00:03:32.820 liberals would drop their double standard that they've been employing for

00:03:36.240 decades when it comes to how they deal with conservative and liberal

00:03:39.420 politicians well of course you'd be wrong because they just would never do that

00:03:43.060 sort of thing and like I said in my intro no Canadian was truly that surprised

00:03:47.700 it's been sort of one of those open secrets in political circles for years

00:03:51.920 that Justin Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau were likely separated and it wasn't just

00:03:56.340 because photos emerged of Justin Trudeau sitting like this it was also videos

00:04:00.740 like this showing perhaps the most awkward kiss between a married couple you may

00:04:05.420 ever see I mean if that doesn't scream loving married couple then I don't know

00:04:09.380 what does but all kidding aside like I said in the intro divorce is terrible and

00:04:13.720 it's always the worst on children who will have to grow up with a broken family

00:04:17.540 but the legal separation of Justin Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau is really just a

00:04:22.220 symbol of yet another failing and collapsing institution in this country the

00:04:26.720 institution of marriage the statistics are clear fewer and fewer Canadians are

00:04:32.240 getting married and according to this Angus Reid poll from 2018 over half of

00:04:37.480 respondents think marriage is unnecessary take a look at this graph from

00:04:41.680 stats Canada showing the crude marriage rate in Canada over the past 100 years we

00:04:48.100 went from a high point of 11.2 marriages per 1,000 people in Canada in 1946 down to a

00:04:55.660 record low in 2020 of just over two per 1,000 just over two marriages per 1,000

00:05:03.700 people and although Canada's population has consistently grown over the past 100

00:05:09.160 years marriage rates haven't kept pace at all excluding the pandemic year of 2020

00:05:15.400 which of course skews data in 2019 there were 146,000 marriages in Canada in 1989

00:05:23.080 there were over 190,000 according to census data 4.4 million Canadians live alone

00:05:30.200 that's the highest on record in 1981 only 1.7 million Canadians lived alone and

00:05:36.620 according to that same census Canada's fertility rate has reached a record low

00:05:41.480 of just at 1.4 children per woman and this is not a trivial matter it's a serious

00:05:47.600 problem in that stats Canada report the government writes this if the country's

00:05:52.040 fertility rate continues to decline further in the coming years Canada could join 1.00

00:05:56.600 the countries with the lowest low fertility rates 1.3 or less children per

00:06:02.480 woman a situation associated with rapid population aging and increased stress on 0.96

00:06:08.300 the labor market public health care and pension systems in order to solve this

00:06:13.340 problem as you're all well aware Canada has had to rapidly increase our

00:06:18.260 population in fact we're now leading the G7 as the fastest growing country the

00:06:24.260 government wants to bring in 500,000 immigrants per year and that number is

00:06:28.940 only going to continue to increase the collapse of the institution of marriage

00:06:33.020 along with other social trends have resulted in the following outcomes a

00:06:37.520 rapidly aging population fewer children fewer marriages more people living alone

00:06:43.820 and a labor shortage which has resulted in our government running to

00:06:47.360 immigrants begging them to come to our country to fill positions not to mention all 1.00

00:06:52.460 of the secondary problems that come with all of these issues increased overdose

00:06:57.700 deaths and addictions to drugs spikes in crime collapsing recruitment rates in the

00:07:03.080 military the list could go on and on of the problems we're facing today which stem

00:07:07.760 from a collapsing society a society which rejects the pillars and norms that we

00:07:13.700 know build good and healthy nations according to the Saskatchewan based

00:07:18.680 divorced lawyer 40 to 50 percent of marriages in Canada first marriages in

00:07:23.960 Canada end in divorce and 60 percent of second marriages in Canada are likely to

00:07:29.300 end in divorce as well other countries around the world facing similar

00:07:33.020 demographic problems like Hungary for example have come up with creative policy 1.00

00:07:38.000 solutions for example a mother in Hungary with three kids will pay no taxes for the

00:07:43.920 rest of her life now that is an example of a family policy that promotes healthy 0.99

00:07:48.660 marriages fertility and of course building better societies we don't have 0.99

00:07:54.320 that anywhere in Canada in fact both political leaders seem to be in lockstep

00:07:58.920 when it comes to immigration when do we hear anything from our political

00:08:02.640 leaders about increasing fertility rates in this country and of course

00:08:06.300 strengthening the bonds that make our communities strong and at the core of

00:08:11.400 that of course would be marriage no one should be reveling in the news of Justin

00:08:15.540 Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau getting a divorce it's terrible news not only for his

00:08:20.100 own family and for his kids but of course for the country sure the Prime

00:08:23.460 Minister's policies may have ruined the lives of millions of Canadians and

00:08:27.180 there's no excuse for that and neither should there be but as Canadians we

00:08:30.960 should want and we should expect that our Prime Minister can maintain a

00:08:35.140 healthy marriage not just because it's important for him personally but of

00:08:39.720 course it sends a strong message to the country that this is the ideal this is

00:08:44.840 what we want and this is an example to live by all right time for a quick ratio

00:08:49.360 of the week the winner this week is Seamus O'Regan Liberal Cabinet Minister you see

00:08:54.320 he did a TV interview over the week and said that he really just doesn't like

00:08:57.660 politicians who rile people up unnecessarily he says I think it's

00:09:01.980 unforgivable to rile people up more than they need to be as anybody here gonna tell

00:09:07.560 this guy that he works for a man who's made a career out of riling people up

00:09:11.440 unnecessarily who spent the last three years demonizing half the population in

00:09:16.220 this country for not following his draconian and authoritarian mandates for

00:09:20.720 saying that the opposition were standing with those who wave swastikas and

00:09:25.160 confederate flags and accusing a large number of the population of being the

00:09:29.480 small fringe minority surely that's not riling up the population is it now Seamus take a

00:09:34.920 listen to this clip I really just don't like politicians who rile people up

00:09:39.540 unnecessarily we got enough going on nerves are rubbed raw I don't see the

00:09:44.540 need for it you know I am all for civil debate I'm all for hardened debate I'm all

00:09:49.800 for disagreement I got no problem with any of that I don't like riling people up

00:09:55.240 for the sake of riling people up I don't like people making people more anxious than

00:10:00.600 they need to be you know I think it's well documented that I went through a

00:10:04.860 period of depression and anxiety in my life it is not easy and I think it is

00:10:10.360 unforgivable frankly to rile people up even more than they they need to be right

00:10:15.060 now there's enough going on in the world

00:10:17.220 1,165 replies to only 878 likes Carl Harrison writes you literally work

00:10:25.320 directly for a charlatan who spends his every waking hour riling people up

00:10:30.780 Herb Powell writes this the man can talk but his words don't mean a thing a more

00:10:36.140 sincere person wouldn't breach that discussion knowing what their leader and

00:10:39.720 party has done and this one is great have you considered saying this to your

00:10:43.440 boss you know what Seamus that might go a long way actually to lower the

00:10:46.800 temperature in this country it might actually stop people being riled up

00:10:50.700 unnecessarily if the man who does it for a living is told by someone like you

00:10:55.620 ah who knows he probably won't even listen to you let's be honest all right

00:10:59.040 everyone that's gonna do it for us this week on the show thank you so much for

00:11:01.660 tuning in my name is Harrison Faulkner and this is ratio

Juno News - August 03, 2023

How Predictable.

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