Juno News - It's more important than ever to criticize the government

00:00:00.000 Put partisanship behind us. How we all must rally together and be on the same page,

00:00:11.580 regardless of political philosophy, political ideology, and affiliation. What do you think

00:00:16.200 about that? I think in large respects, it's mostly true in many respects. And I think we

00:00:22.820 should certainly be wishing for the success of all government leaders right now, because of the

00:00:27.860 magnitude of what is at stake. But getting lost in all of that, we hear some people try and argue,

00:00:34.660 well, Andrew Scheer shouldn't criticize Justin Trudeau. He shouldn't criticize the government.

00:00:40.760 Everything he says must be constructive feedback. It must be to improve upon things. It must be to

00:00:46.820 build upon them and to sort of agree with him respectfully, but maybe offer a couple little

00:00:52.440 tweaks here and there. I'm not so sure about that. In fact, I think now, more than ever,

00:00:58.700 individuals, opposition leaders, anybody out there should feel free to criticize their government

00:01:05.220 perhaps more robustly than ever, because the stakes are so high, because we are facing life or death

00:01:15.180 matters, because there is no margin for error here. Very limited margin for error. This is not like

00:01:20.940 some small little policy, some niche tax credit that you can say, oh, it's great, or it's terrible,

00:01:26.780 it's the worst thing ever. Okay, well, you know, if they screw it up, it's not going to be that bad.

00:01:31.260 Next year, you repeal it, or what have you. No. This is something where there is no dress rehearsal,

00:01:36.260 and there's also no round two. This is in real time right now, and we're never going to face

00:01:41.600 something like this, hopefully, fingers crossed, again, for many years, perhaps, in our lifetime.

00:01:47.620 Now, obviously, politicians are under remarkable amounts of stress, and obviously, we're just

00:01:52.340 learning as we go. There's a whole lot about the basic nuts and bolts of the coronavirus that even

00:01:57.200 the medical experts, they just don't really know all that much about. So that is why different

00:02:01.600 positions are changing, really, from day to day. So those are all caveats to, okay, handle with care,

00:02:06.900 and not to cheapshot people and political leaders, but should we suddenly stop criticizing the

00:02:12.180 government because, well, you know, we're all in this together, and they want the best for us? No.

00:02:15.920 If anything, this is a time when everybody needs to be getting in the game more and having their

00:02:20.780 views about what should happen and what shouldn't, and making their voices heard. So don't let them tell

00:02:26.000 you that now is not the time to criticize the government. Now is exactly the time.

Juno News - April 05, 2020