Juno News - It's a time for mourning, not political statements

00:00:00.000 there's been a bit of talk the past few days about who's actually responsible for the downing

00:00:10.320 of the ukrainian passenger jet that killed almost 200 people 57 canadian citizens among the mix the

00:00:16.720 answer is of course obvious in fact the government of iran has admitted after lying about it for a

00:00:22.800 while and trying to cover it up that yes they down that missile another question is whether

00:00:27.120 it was accidental or not or deliberate certainly makes sense that it would be accidental a lot of

00:00:32.240 people believe that although the head of canada's transportation safety board has clarified but we

00:00:36.880 also need to know that factually as well not just what iran says and not just what our gut tells us

00:00:42.000 so anyway the investigation continues we know iran did it we know iran caused it and we're going to

00:00:46.960 learn the details soon but hold on that's not enough for some people some people want to rush to

00:00:51.920 immediately find a way to blame donald trump for this and talking about how a cascading series of

00:00:57.840 events that somehow began with the killing of sulamani is the sole responsibility for that and

00:01:03.280 therefore it's okay to say these canadians would still be alive were it not for the killing of

00:01:09.280 sulamani kind of odd rationale there you can go back to many other things they would still be alive

00:01:15.280 were not for the 1979 islamic revolution that happened in iran and so on and so forth i can just

00:01:20.800 pick things out of a hat to point out uh to make this point i i don't want to have that argument

00:01:25.760 because look quite frankly we've got a number of people dead here dozens of canadian citizens and

00:01:31.200 it is a really unfortunate time it is a time of mourning and you look at the biography biographies of

00:01:36.880 these people in the backgrounds and you go wow this is this is really sad this is really tragic so

00:01:42.400 speaking of what also is really sad i just think it's sad that people's headspace immediately takes

00:01:48.080 them to how can i make this about get trump and make trump look bad you know i get it with these

00:01:53.440 very partisan issues that materialize in the united states there's a playbook the right says this the

00:01:58.720 left says this they have in the us we have it here in canada that's how it rolls so if you want to

00:02:03.760 see some random domestic news story some piece of legislation put forward and then the cnn people they

00:02:09.440 turn that little switch in their head and say okay well i automatically have to say how this is trump's

00:02:14.320 fault how trump is wrong how he's a moron donald trump says the sky is blue all right let's find 0.88

00:02:19.120 a way to argue that it's not blue i get that they do that i think it's silly but i get that they do that

00:02:24.560 in this situation it should be different a basic thing called oh i don't know classiness basic human

00:02:32.160 decency should enter the mix where this is not some opportunity to own trump because quite frankly

00:02:38.880 it really makes a mockery of the lives lost if that is your approach to this issue which brings us

00:02:44.880 to canadian maple leaf food ceo michael mccain very sad i think sad is is really the ultimate word i

00:02:50.960 would use to characterize those series of tweets that he made where he commandeered the social media

00:02:55.280 account to say i am michael mccain and these are personal reflections oh everyone stand back here we're

00:03:01.360 about to see a performance i am very livid i am angry my anger has not gone away with time and then

00:03:08.080 he tells us that one employee at maple leaf foods lost his wife and a child in in the crash and

00:03:14.080 that's a very tragic thing okay and then michael mccain right away goes to talking about geopolitics

00:03:20.560 and the iran deal and so forth because he's such an expert in all of this and basically makes it clear

00:03:25.040 that a narcissist in washington is responsible for this dare i submit a narcissist takes one to know one

00:03:33.840 mr mccain that's what we have going on here because in these series of tweets does he mention

00:03:39.920 the names of these people no does he post an adoring photograph to say look look at these people we have

00:03:45.760 lost these canadians these maple leaf maple leaf food if not employees the the family of an employee

00:03:51.520 does he put those is there a commemoration to them no there's not maybe they asked him to not be

00:03:57.360 included in all of this i don't know but it's certainly at face value looks like an incredibly

00:04:02.640 self-indulgent look at me look at me saying anti-trump statement at this of all times now

00:04:09.440 there's another ceo out there mohammad fakir he's the ceo of paramount fine foods based in toronto but

00:04:14.480 they have restaurants all across the country he came up with this fundraiser he wants to raise 1.5

00:04:19.760 million dollars to pay for the funeral costs of uh of all of the deceased the canadian deceased and i guess

00:04:25.280 he's paying for the the managing of it all and paying for the the law firm or whichever firm it

00:04:30.400 is going to manage it all so he's putting up his money for that and then is trying to draw attention

00:04:34.000 to this fundraiser no political statements no partisanship nothing just him talking about we've

00:04:39.680 lost these people it's tragic let's come together as canadians on this michael mccain should really take

00:04:45.520 a look at this and see you could have actually said or done something positive you didn't have to

00:04:51.120 make it about partisanship you didn't have to make it all about you rather tragic that at this time

00:04:57.120 when a nation is in mourning we can't come together like this it still has to be about anti-trump tweets

00:05:04.160 sad sad indeed

Juno News - January 15, 2020

It's a time for mourning, not political statements

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