Juno News - Is Justin Trudeau in trouble？

00:00:00.000 get the popcorn canada the next few months are set to be very exciting times you all know about

00:00:13.320 the china election interference story so i won't burden you with going through and summarizing all

00:00:17.820 of what we now know before getting into the latest and most important details on friday global news

00:00:23.620 broke this story wide open and are now dropping names of current mps yes sitting liberal mps

00:00:29.800 and other liberal operatives allegedly involved in chinese communist election meddling operations

00:00:35.240 and in response to that reporting justin trudeau is now accusing anyone who believes in that

00:00:40.180 reporting of stoking anti-asian racism desperate times call for desperate measures i guess but i

00:00:47.280 think it's pretty clear that things are not looking so good in the liberal camp these days drop a like

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00:00:55.400 the episode is this is the chinese election interference story the biggest political

00:01:01.080 scandal in canadian history let me know and let's get into it well the china story gets better and

00:01:06.260 better as the weeks go by doesn't it take a look at this global news broadcast from friday afternoon

00:01:11.760 they are now dropping names of sitting mps allegedly involved with a chinese communist party this is

00:01:18.260 getting totally wild watch this sources say hendong had help from the chinese consul in toronto to become

00:01:24.160 the 2019 liberal candidate in the riding through a combination of cesis documents and intelligence

00:01:28.500 sources global news has learned the consulate allegedly sent two busloads of chinese canadian

00:01:32.660 seniors to the dawn valley north liberal nomination meeting and those seniors knew who to vote for

00:01:36.640 because dawn's name was written on their arm sources also say cesis suspected that chinese

00:01:41.100 international students with faked addresses were bussed in and told by the prc consulate to support

00:01:45.560 their preferred candidate if they wanted to maintain their student visa status dong denied allegations he was

00:01:50.200 helped by beijing calling them false accusations that slander me and the community i represent and

00:01:54.500 when asked by a cbc journalist to clarify whether or not he had been warned about handong's

00:02:00.540 2019 candidacy in dawn valley north justin trudeau responded by saying that believing in this story

00:02:07.900 accusing handong of being involved in the chinese communist election interference operation

00:02:14.000 is feeding into anti-asian racism it's the kind of stuff you can't make up just a follow-up on that

00:02:21.060 question on cesis and handong are you saying that they didn't warn you or were you warned and you chose

00:02:30.320 to dismiss it for those reasons uh just wanted some clarification once again one of the things we've seen

00:02:39.280 unfortunately over the past years is a rise um in uh anti-asian racism linked to the pandemic

00:02:46.980 uh and concerns being rise or arisen uh around uh people's loyalties i want to make everyone

00:02:56.500 understand fully but handong uh is an outstanding member of our team

00:03:02.480 and suggestions that he is somehow not loyal to canada should not be entertained it's important

00:03:12.660 to also note for the record that everyone involved in this story handong the liberal party of canada

00:03:18.540 the prime minister's office everyone accused of wrongdoing in this story vehemently deny the

00:03:23.340 allegations handong followed that up with an official statement denying the allegations he writes that he

00:03:28.860 rejects the insinuations in media reporting that allege he has played a role in offshore interference

00:03:34.700 in these processes and will defend himself vigorously against such inaccurate and irresponsible claims

00:03:40.400 that come from an unverified and anonymous source now dawn valley north is the definition of a safe

00:03:46.300 liberal seat the liberals could have nominated a golden retriever and the dog would have beat the

00:03:50.340 conservative challenger so why then did the liberals go forward with handong's nomination if they

00:03:55.440 were going to win the seat anyways you know they could have probably picked someone who

00:03:58.800 wasn't a target of csesis wasn't allegedly an asset of the chinese communist party but nonetheless

00:04:04.780 according to this reporting the liberals went forward with it despite being told by csesis that

00:04:10.140 they should not that's interesting csesis telling justin trudeau to do one thing and justin trudeau

00:04:15.100 doing the opposite where have you heard that before conveniently for the feds this reporting by

00:04:19.660 global news was dropped on friday afternoon the one time in the weekly news cycle where you play

00:04:25.040 stories that you want to bury for next week but something tells me this story isn't going anywhere

00:04:30.120 in fact as the common question alludes to this might be one of the biggest scandals that this

00:04:35.100 government has to deal with and let's be honest there's no way that the feds don't feel the pressure

00:04:39.440 now on friday justin trudeau was asked if he would establish a public inquiry into election interference

00:04:45.760 by the chinese state given all that we know now and the seriousness of this issue this was how justin

00:04:51.600 trudeau responded to that question will you establish a public inquiry into chinese interference

00:04:57.680 in the past two election as called for by the former uh electoral officer john pierre kingsley

00:05:03.320 i think it is a very good thing that canadians are understanding how serious it is

00:05:09.600 uh that china and other countries are continuing to try to destabilize and influence our democracies 1.00

00:05:17.880 and our institutions that's why we have continually given new resources and new tools including

00:05:26.260 a panel and a task force that we set up way back in 2019 to ensure that our election integrity held

00:05:35.160 that our national security experts are able to do the work that canadians expect them to do

00:05:43.620 we welcome the work that committees are doing we'll continue to work to give all the tools necessary

00:05:50.360 uh to our in uh to our national security agencies so that canadians can continue uh to be confident

00:05:57.620 that we are taking this as seriously as it must be and i say again we are taking this extremely

00:06:04.180 seriously and always have completely avoids answering the question rules out calling a

00:06:10.000 public inquiry so canadians can have confidence in our democracy have confidence in our elections

00:06:15.120 no he doesn't really care about it at all it appears after all we know justin trudeau's stance

00:06:19.960 on china his favorite country the country he most admires is the great people's republic of china

00:06:26.340 there's a level of of uh admiration i actually have for china um because their you know basic

00:06:35.520 dictatorship is allowing them uh to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to 0.99

00:06:41.260 go green as fast as we need to start you know investing in solar i mean there is a flexibility that

00:06:46.780 i know stephen harper must dream about and from previous reporting on this story we know that the

00:06:51.380 chinese government specifically wanted to have a liberal minority government in power they

00:06:56.860 specifically wanted justin trudeau to be the prime minister of canada justin trudeau was china's guy

00:07:03.080 and china got their win so you can understand if you were purely self-centered and focused on

00:07:08.960 doing anything to maintain power you would want nothing to do with this china election story

00:07:14.160 but for the rest of us for all of canada we're looking at this and saying what the heck is going on

00:07:20.220 here and so is the toronto star take a look at this reporting from justin trudeau's loyal

00:07:25.840 stenographers who it appears have maybe started to turn on the man that pays their salary this is an

00:07:32.520 opinion column from andrew phillips written in the toronto star justin trudeau is digging a deeper hole

00:07:38.180 for himself on chinese meddling in elections and in response to robert fife's request for comment from

00:07:44.640 the globe and mail gerald butts justin trudeau's former principal secretary called on the

00:07:50.020 government to establish a non-partisan inquiry into election interference and despite all the

00:07:55.920 pressure from gerald butts from the toronto star from the cbc the global mail really these are his

00:08:01.020 own these are his own teammates these are his own players despite the pressure from them he still is

00:08:07.400 refusing to call an inquiry into chinese election interference hand dong is the first name to drop

00:08:13.740 accused of being involved in election interference from the chinese state but who else will be name

00:08:19.240 dropped we know from reporting that 11 candidates in the gta alone were targeted by the ccp for election

00:08:25.920 interference there are probably many more across the country and that means more names more juicy

00:08:31.500 headlines and more good stories that's going to do it for us today on the show thank you so much for

00:08:35.680 watching my name is harrison faulkner and this is ratio

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Juno News - February 27, 2023

Is Justin Trudeau in trouble？

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