Juno News - How to lose the CPC leadership race in one easy step

00:00:00.000 I was certainly hoping that the Huawei question would become an issue in the

00:00:09.280 conservative leadership race, but I did not expect it would become an issue in

00:00:12.960 that one potential candidate has been revealed to be an advisor to Huawei.

00:00:18.840 Jean Charest, former Premier of Quebec, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada,

00:00:23.120 it was revealed by the Globe and Mail that the law firm that he was at, McCarthy

00:00:26.960 Tetro, he was working on the Huawei file there advising them about them getting

00:00:32.240 involved in our 5G telecom network and also dealing with the Meng Wanzhou case.

00:00:36.880 There is no indications that he recused himself from that, there is no

00:00:40.560 indications that he has offered any caveats to say that he was doing

00:00:43.480 anything other than helping this company that a lot of experts have said are not

00:00:48.440 a good thing for Canadian national security, are a threat to our intelligence,

00:00:53.640 to our national security and need to be banned from our 5G grid.

00:00:58.120 This is really quite something here, and I think this one single issue alone will be

00:01:02.920 enough to completely torpedo and tank his campaign as it absolutely should.

00:01:07.480 Now, when I first heard this news, I thought this guy has no business running for

00:01:10.920 conservative leader after doing a stunt like this.

00:01:14.280 However, now I kind of think, you know what, let him run for leader and let him have it

00:01:18.040 handed to him and let him lose colossally and let him be up there as a symbol to smoke

00:01:23.400 out all the other candidates to make sure we know where they stand on this and to make

00:01:27.080 sure that they hold Jean Charest to account and that they make it clear that this is unacceptable.

00:01:32.760 I know a lot of people who work in what they call GR, government relations,

00:01:36.440 lobbyists, comms, PR, all that sort of stuff.

00:01:39.320 And there are people who are in politics and media who have spent time in those fields either

00:01:43.240 before or after their political or media careers. I get all of that. And sometimes you're going to

00:01:48.040 be working at a firm, a law firm, a PR firm, what have you. And you're going to take on a client that

00:01:52.600 you may not be a hundred percent rosy with them, but you go, a job's a job. And this is what I have

00:01:57.480 to do. I'm here to be this, this representative or what have you. I get all of that. I get that.

00:02:01.320 People have their jobs. People got to eat, as if Jean Charest had probably any problems

00:02:06.360 making money and collecting whatever, whatever he's getting from his time being a premier of

00:02:13.560 Quebec. I get all of that. I get all of that. But this is different. There are certain categories

00:02:18.280 where I believe it is very right to judge people by the clients they take on. And this is certainly

00:02:26.360 one of them. The big problem with Huawei right now is that there are serious concerns that if they

00:02:32.280 basically develop the underbelly of our 5G grid, which is the internet of things, which is autonomous

00:02:38.840 vehicles talking to each other, our appliances interacting with each other, different little

00:02:43.560 cameras and microphones on all of those that if the Chinese government wants, they can knock on 0.92

00:02:48.200 Huawei's door, turn on the taps and suddenly have a window into all of that, have control in all of

00:02:53.960 that. It seems like a science fiction conspiracy, but this is what the experts are telling us to be

00:03:00.760 concerned about. Do we want to risk it? Do we? The founder of Huawei, previously involved in

00:03:07.160 China's People's Liberation Army. And, you know, we know I've talked about this before. There's a

00:03:10.920 documentary from called American Factory that the Obama's executive produced. And there's a scene

00:03:17.640 where this private corporation, they actually have, it's a Chinese corporation, but they have a plant

00:03:23.800 in the United States. They actually have an office in their Chinese office that has pictures

00:03:28.680 of Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao. And you go there and it's like a branch of the Communist Chinese 0.70

00:03:35.320 Party in this private corporation's office. And you're supposed to go there and pledge your loyalty

00:03:40.200 to the party on the job. I mean, how can we say, forget state-owned enterprises. How can we say that

00:03:45.080 private corporations are separated from the Chinese government? If they have these sorts of things,

00:03:50.680 70% of private companies have these sort of offices in their buildings. It's really quite

00:03:56.040 remarkable. It's quite something. There are laws on the books that basically say that private Chinese 0.98

00:04:00.680 companies also need to be involved in doing the bidding of the Chinese government. Jean Charest,

00:04:05.960 a guy advising them, when right now Canadians have been very frustrated, disturbed, and troubled by

00:04:12.600 all the stuff they've been seeing from China recently, all in response to the arrest of Meng

00:04:18.520 Wang Zhu. I think this should disqualify someone from becoming prime minister of Canada. I think

00:04:24.760 Jean Charest owes us some answers and we shall wait and see what he has to say.

Juno News - January 12, 2020

How to lose the CPC leadership race in one easy step

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