Juno News - August 19, 2019


It's time to get tough on China, Justin


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2 minutes

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171.60298

Word count

506

Sentence count

30

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Hate speech

1

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Justin Trudeau is really against the ropes on Lavscam right now. Lots of calls for him to apologize. And you would think that now is a time when he would really want to turn the page. Do something different. Change people s focus.

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00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau is really against the ropes on Lavscam right now. Lots of calls for him to
00:00:14.760 apologize. And you would think that now is a time when he would really want to turn the page. Do
00:00:20.700 something different. Change people's focus. Well, I'm not one for doing liberal political strategy
00:00:26.680 to help Justin Trudeau do better in the polls, but I have an idea for him for how he can make things
00:00:32.400 better with Lavscam, or at least get people to stop talking about it, and simultaneously do something
00:00:38.400 that would be genuinely good for the country. And it involves Hong Kong. I'll explain. Right now,
00:00:45.840 China is very distracted. They're dealing with the troubling Hong Kong issue where they're not sure
00:00:50.800 what's going on with Hong Kong. They want to, of course, make Hong Kong and Taiwan and other
00:00:55.680 countries become more like them, but Hong Kong will have none of it. Now, China has amassed 0.99
00:01:01.780 troops and military vehicles along the Shenzhen border, and there are very serious worries that
00:01:06.980 coming up soon they may do something comparable to a second Tiananmen Square. That in itself is a big
00:01:13.260 problem, and we want Justin Trudeau, Christy Freeland, and Donald Trump, and Boris Johnson, and everyone
00:01:18.560 else to stand up for liberty, freedom, the rule of law, and democracy in Hong Kong. But there's something
00:01:24.880 else at play here that China is pretty vulnerable right now, a very powerful country, an authoritarian
00:01:30.980 regime. They're rarely in a position like this where the world is watching, and they're on the defensive.
00:01:37.800 They don't necessarily know what to do. Now is the perfect ideal time for Justin Trudeau to finally get
00:01:48.380 tough on China. Now would be the best time to ban Huawei from our 5G grid. It would be the best time
00:01:57.080 to file those World Trade Organization complaints against China, and do a myriad of the other things
00:02:03.160 that the various experts and academics and former diplomats have been calling on Trudeau to do. Now,
00:02:09.180 I obviously don't want Lab Scam to be distracting. I've written and broadcast and spoken already about how
00:02:14.600 this is a major problem, and we need more action on this. But if you're going to play these political
00:02:18.860 games, you would think now would be a time to do it. I mean, even if there was no Lab Scam, I would say
00:02:24.500 now is the time to strike against China. But you'd think that Justin Trudeau would really actually want
00:02:30.440 to take this opportunity right now. Do the right thing on the China file, on the Hong Kong file. Stand up.
00:02:37.960 Make some statements in defense of Hong Kong. Do things like ban Huawei to tell China that they are not
00:02:44.020 going to push us to become more like them. And at the same time, well, he can get us talking about
00:02:49.580 Lab Scam just a little bit less. That's my advice to the Prime Minister, my one time this year where
00:02:55.020 I'm going to play liberal strategist.