Juno News - March 02, 2023


Is this the end for Justin Trudeau？


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12 minutes

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178.6549

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2,242

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104

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00:00:00.000 Well don't look away now, with each passing day the Chinese election interference story continues
00:00:12.640 to get worse for Justin Trudeau. As MPs prepare to battle it out on committee floors and as CSIS
00:00:18.240 leaks continue to find a home on the front page of the Globe and Mail, perhaps the worst news of
00:00:22.240 all has befallen our embattled Prime Minister. That being that the NDP, the fake socialists who
00:00:27.280 shamelessly carried the government to the use of the Emergencies Act, are starting to turn on the
00:00:31.600 government. Calling in the horses invoking the Emergencies Act on the Freedom Convoy was all
00:00:35.360 well and good, but Chinese election interference, that's a step too far for the NDP. How much longer
00:00:40.320 can Justin Trudeau seriously hold on to the job if he can't even hold the NDP on his side? Drop a like
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00:00:49.040 the episode is this, how much longer will we have to wait until we start to see resignations inside
00:00:55.120 the Liberal Caucus? Let me know and let's get into it. Now every day there's new information coming out
00:01:00.720 about the Chinese election interference story, thanks to of course CSIS leaks that are finding
00:01:05.920 their way onto the front page of the Globe and Mail. But first let's start off with the most important
00:01:11.680 news, the most important and timely news, that being what is taking place right now in the Procedure
00:01:17.200 and House Affairs Committee. Opposition MPs in that committee are currently debating the details of an
00:01:24.080 NDP motion to force MPs to vote on a national inquiry into foreign election interference. Now
00:01:31.280 although the NDP call for a national inquiry does signal the first cracks in the foundation of the
00:01:37.840 Justin Trudeau Liberal Jagmeet Singh NDP coalition deal, it's not exactly black and white. The
00:01:44.480 Conservatives are still accusing the NDP of covering up for the Prime Minister. The conservative line of
00:01:49.520 attack is that the NDP want to broaden the scope of this inquiry so much that it can't possibly get
00:01:55.680 to the bottom of what's really going on. They're trying to delay the process and they're trying to
00:02:00.080 keep important people like Katie Telford, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, from testifying.
00:02:05.280 Conservative MP Michael Cooper even went so far as to tell Peter Julian, the NDP MP on the committee,
00:02:12.560 to cross the floor and to just join the Liberals already. Again, the coalition at work, the NDP
00:02:18.640 doing absolutely everything to assist the Liberals in covering up this scandal. And, you know, quite
00:02:27.680 frankly, at some point, maybe Peter Julian ought to just consider crossing the floor and joining the
00:02:33.920 Liberals or joining the PMO because he's doing all of their work. That was this morning. So clearly,
00:02:39.120 it's not like the NDP and the Conservatives are all of a sudden best friends working against the
00:02:43.840 Prime Minister. That being said, the Conservatives, although they do take issue with the NDP motion,
00:02:48.720 they will be supporting the NDP motion and calling for an inquiry as well. The main amendment that
00:02:54.320 Conservatives are trying to get adopted by the committee is to make sure that Justin Trudeau
00:02:59.360 doesn't get to appoint the Commissioner to oversee the inquiry, that the Commissioner is agreed upon by all
00:03:05.200 members of Parliament. Now, for the past year and a half, Jagmeet Singh's NDP has been the only thing
00:03:10.480 keeping Justin Trudeau in power. The NDP has been the only thing keeping Justin Trudeau in Ottawa
00:03:15.920 and not out in Tofino surfing. And when asked by reporters on Tuesday if Justin Trudeau's refusal
00:03:21.920 to call an inquiry into Chinese election interference would jeopardize the agreement between the NDP and the
00:03:27.440 Liberals, Jagmeet Singh said it wasn't a decision he was going to make today, but that he continued to call
00:03:32.800 the government to open an inquiry. Is this an issue that could put your supply and confidence deal
00:03:39.600 with the Liberals at risk if they don't take steps to deal with the serious issue of foreign
00:03:46.000 interference in our elections? Well, that's not a decision we're making today in terms of if we're
00:03:50.560 going to an election or not. But it is something that we take very seriously. I have made the call
00:03:54.960 for a public inquiry. So far, the Prime Minister has said that's not something he's going to do.
00:03:59.120 We disagree on that. I think it should be a public independent inquiry that investigates this,
00:04:04.480 that assesses the real dangers and provides us with real transparency around what happened
00:04:10.640 and ways that we can prevent it from having an influence in any way on our democratic system.
00:04:15.360 I think that that is important to have that independence assess that risk and to provide
00:04:20.240 us with recommendations. So I maintain my position and I will continue to apply pressure on the government
00:04:25.760 to move forward on an inquiry. Despite all of that, despite all of the pressure coming from his own
00:04:30.640 team, the NDP, despite the pressure coming from legacy media outlets, journalists and former CSIS
00:04:36.960 directors, all calling on the government to open an inquiry. And despite the fact that members inside
00:04:42.800 CSIS are so concerned about Justin Trudeau's lack of action when it comes to election interference,
00:04:48.960 that they are now in full revolt against the Prime Minister and leaking everything to the Globe and
00:04:53.200 Mail, despite all of that, the Prime Minister remains defiant. He refuses to call an inquiry. If you have
00:05:00.480 nothing to hide, then what's the problem?
00:05:02.800 How will your government respond to that request?
00:05:06.320 I think one of the most important things to remember is we have an awful lot of mechanisms that
00:05:13.520 are underway right now around determining what kind of foreign interference has happened,
00:05:21.200 is continuing to happen, and demonstrating the tools we have. Right now, as we're speaking,
00:05:27.600 our parliamentary committee is hearing directly from national security experts and officials as to
00:05:36.800 the work that they've been doing over the past many years to counter ongoing interference.
00:05:43.200 Because on Wednesday, Justin Trudeau's National Security Advisor, Jody Thomas, who many of you remember
00:05:48.240 from the Emergencies Act inquiry, told MPs that Justin Trudeau had been briefed multiple times about
00:05:53.760 election interference in 2019 and 2021.
00:05:57.280 How many times was the Prime Minister briefed about Beijing's interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections?
00:06:07.040 The Prime Minister would have been briefed on foreign interference in the elections multiple times
00:06:11.280 between 2019 and 2021 and 2022. We will endeavor to get you those dates.
00:06:20.000 So you will undertake to provide the dates and the agencies and those involved in briefing
00:06:27.920 the Prime Minister?
00:06:28.880 We will endeavor to get the dates for you.
00:06:30.960 Every instance that he was briefed in respect of Beijing's election interference?
00:06:35.520 I will do my best. But again, I was not in this job at the time.
00:06:38.880 Briefed multiple times, eh? Well, that doesn't jive too well with what Justin Trudeau was telling
00:06:43.520 reporters back in November about never being briefed about candidates receiving money from China.
00:06:49.360 But let me be clear. I do not have any information, nor have I been briefed,
00:06:56.880 on any federal candidates receiving any money from China.
00:07:02.160 Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm being far too critical of the Canadian government, aren't I?
00:07:06.560 I'm not giving them nearly enough credit. Because on Tuesday, the Canadian government
00:07:10.000 told us that attempts to interfere in the election in 2021 did not impact the outcome
00:07:15.120 of the election. Because the very conveniently timed report on the public election incident
00:07:20.560 protocol of 2021 tells us that there's nothing to worry about. What if I told you that the man
00:07:25.760 who wrote that report, the report on Tuesday that says there's nothing to worry about here in Canada,
00:07:29.440 there's no concerns about election interference. What if I told you that that man was the former CEO
00:07:35.200 of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation? Would you be surprised to hear such a thing? Or might
00:07:40.320 you say to yourself, Justin Trudeau is stacking government positions with true loyalists who
00:07:44.720 would never do anything to question his leadership, judgment, or integrity? Tell me something I don't
00:07:49.680 know. That's exactly it though. The report that tells Canadians there was nothing to worry about in
00:07:54.400 the 2021 election was written by a man named Morris Rosenberg. Morris Rosenberg previously served as the
00:08:01.440 CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. And the story gets absolutely hilarious from here.
00:08:07.600 During the time that Morris Rosenberg was the leader of the Trudeau Foundation, a Chinese billionaire
00:08:14.720 named Jiang Bin donated a million dollars to the foundation. Of course, totally coincidental,
00:08:21.680 not because Justin Trudeau, the son of the man whose name is on the charity, is the Prime Minister of
00:08:27.600 Canada. Donating to the Trudeau Foundation wouldn't give Jiang Bin any influence over the government.
00:08:32.880 Of course not. Jiang Bin must have been truly moved by the work being done by the Pierre Trudeau
00:08:37.360 Foundation to feel as though that was a good place to put his money. Well, through these CSIS leaks,
00:08:41.920 Jiang Bin, who donated a million dollars to the Trudeau Foundation, also was donating lots of money to
00:08:47.600 the University of Montreal. And one of Jiang Bin's requests to the University of Montreal was to erect a
00:08:53.760 statue of Mao along with Pierre Trudeau at the foot of the University of Montreal Law School. Now,
00:09:00.480 someone at the University of Montreal had the presence of mind to say no to the Mao and Trudeau
00:09:05.120 statue. I think maybe the optics weren't exactly what they were going for, too on the nose perhaps.
00:09:09.840 But if you're asking me, the University of Montreal is not prominent enough for such a statue. Isn't
00:09:14.080 there a pedestal in the middle of Montreal just waiting for a new statue to be placed on it? But if
00:09:18.640 having what appears to be a coup taking place inside CSIS against the Prime Minister wasn't enough,
00:09:24.240 and if having the NDP turning on the Prime Minister wasn't enough for Justin Trudeau,
00:09:28.720 well, as icing on the cake last night, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation released a statement
00:09:33.840 saying they would be reimbursing Jiang Bin for a $200,000 donation, saying that they cannot,
00:09:40.000 as a non-partisan, independent charity, they can't keep any donation that may have been
00:09:45.280 sponsored by a foreign government. And if that sounds to you like an admission of guilt,
00:09:49.920 well, you're not alone, because that is exactly what was being discussed on Twitter.
00:09:53.520 A bank robber that returns the money is still a criminal.
00:09:56.800 Yeah, we received this donation back in 2016, but, you know, now it's looking like we probably
00:10:01.760 shouldn't have taken it, so we're going to give it back to you now in 2023.
00:10:04.960 All the influence you were trying to gain out of making that donation has already been given to you,
00:10:08.800 so congratulations, and here's your money back as well.
00:10:11.920 Too little, too late. Only when you are found out do you do this.
00:10:15.360 Political corruption stinks, and you are part of the stench.
00:10:18.480 Just a coincidence, and the drop in donations after your namesake son leaves office won't drop at all.
00:10:24.160 Not corruption in the least. Never happened before to anyone else in North America who has had a
00:10:28.880 foundation. And take a look at this graph. This is from a National Post article back in 2016.
00:10:34.160 Journalists for many years have known about the details in regards to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation
00:10:39.840 and influence that it may or may not buy you with the sitting Prime Minister of Canada.
00:10:43.760 Now, conveniently, starting in 2014, all of a sudden, a massive spike in foreign donations to
00:10:49.520 the Pierre Trudeau Foundation all of a sudden occurs. But that is surely just a coincidence.
00:10:55.120 Not something I think Canadians should be concerned about. That would be, of course,
00:10:58.720 however, if the Trudeau Foundation didn't just basically sink the Prime Minister's political career.
00:11:03.760 The ratio of the weak award is going to none other than Liberal MP Han Dong for his weak and pathetic
00:11:08.800 statement in the face of allegations that he benefited from Chinese Communist election interference.
00:11:14.880 In the statement in which Dong denies the allegations, he conveniently locked replies on
00:11:20.480 his tweet because facing the people is the last thing this Liberal MP would want to do at this moment.
00:11:25.600 He received 514 quote tweets to only 149 likes. George responded by saying,
00:11:32.960 the fact that you don't allow comments says more about you than your entire statement. Resign.
00:11:39.280 First, this Chinese lackey turns off replies. Then he pretends it's the media calling his loyalty
00:11:45.040 into question. No, sir, it's CSIS. And we know you and at least 10 of your colleagues are compromised,
00:11:51.040 likely far more, including an appointed senator. Time to step down. Resign.
00:11:56.480 Liberal MP investigated himself and deemed everything was good to go. Just like the Liberal
00:12:01.200 government investigated themselves and said everything was good to go. That's the pattern.
00:12:05.440 That's their strategy. Do you buy it? Obviously you don't. Let's be real. Reminder,
00:12:10.080 let me know in the comments. When will we start to see resignations from the Liberal caucus?
00:12:14.800 All right. That's going to do it for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:12:18.080 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is ratio.