Juno News - Justin Trudeau is no longer running the country

00:00:00.000 so did you hear the news Justin Trudeau is no longer running the country that's

00:00:12.080 right and I know you're wondering what what did I just stumble upon what is the

00:00:15.760 date of this video what are you referring to yes this is December 2019

00:00:19.680 just before the Christmas holidays what am I talking about I'm not too sure

00:00:24.840 actually but there are some very interesting news headlines that I would

00:00:29.040 like to present to you a bizarre thing happening on the corridors of power up

00:00:34.320 in Ottawa a report from the Globe and Mail on the cabinet letters that were sent

00:00:39.900 out the mandate letters sent to cabinet ministers by the Prime Minister's office

00:00:42.780 here's the headline from the Globe and Mail Deputy Prime Minister Christy

00:00:46.800 Freeland given mandate to play key role in every top federal government file wait

00:00:56.760 hold on a second key role in every top file well there's

00:01:02.040 a there's a word for that that's called CEO that's Prime Minister that's president

00:01:07.560 that's that's person who's in charge what here's a headline from the CBC Christy

00:01:13.040 Freeland is now the minister for almost everything Wow no there's a saying back

00:01:19.080 decades ago CD howe was prominent cabinet minister and they called him the minister

00:01:23.520 of everything because he had a number of files that he managed at the time this a

00:01:28.800 little different though it seems like Christy Freeland has kind of been put in

00:01:33.180 charge of all the important policy files that the government is supposed to deal

00:01:38.580 with and the government is supposed to be led by the Prime Minister what on earth is

00:01:43.680 going on here ladies and gentlemen Justin Trudeau was just reelected with a

00:01:47.280 mandate not a very strong one a minority mandate but he was just reelected he said I

00:01:51.940 still want to be Prime Minister he said I'm still going to go there to the polls I'm still

00:01:55.480 going to fight it out there was the blackface scandal where he he could have resigned and

00:01:59.700 stepped aside let Christy Freeland come in and take his place but no no no he he stuck

00:02:03.600 it out he fought it out he continues to go out there and and give his speeches and stand

00:02:08.000 there in the House of Commons as if he is Prime Minister and now he is shouldering all

00:02:13.360 of the work to Christy Freeland what on earth is going on what is behind this what

00:02:18.680 motivates this I have zero inclination to sort of hypothesize no conspiracy theory about this no

00:02:24.100 particular tips and hints from official auto it just seems like Justin Trudeau is ghosting out of the

00:02:30.980 role like an awkward relationship he's kind of like those people who retire very kind of slowly at your

00:02:37.420 workplace you're like hey why isn't John here on Fridays anymore oh you didn't hear he's moved

00:02:40.940 to four days now and then a year later you're like what can we have a meeting on Monday with

00:02:44.600 John no he doesn't come in Mondays anymore you're like what he's just three days a week yeah he's just

00:02:47.700 three days a week and then he's gonna retire the year after and you're like oh okay I guess that's

00:02:51.620 how he's doing it it seems like Justin Trudeau is doing that although he's not some man in his you

00:02:55.880 know late 60s getting close to retirement or he's not even a man in his 50s for early retirement he's

00:03:00.980 in his 40s and he just seems like he doesn't want to do the work anymore now there's a lot to be said

00:03:07.240 for this people generally say more positive things about Christy Freeland's work abilities than

00:03:13.420 Justin Trudeau so perhaps this is actually a good match but it's funny when she was made deputy

00:03:18.620 prime minister some people thought oh he's just trying to sort of take away important files from

00:03:23.000 her and keep her busy because maybe she wants the leadership herself because traditionally the deputy 1.00

00:03:27.540 prime minister is a figurehead role it's a symbolic role like in the United States the position of vice

00:03:32.840 president is not a person who makes the top decisions we see the opposite is happening here

00:03:39.440 and Justin Trudeau has made the decision to make his very own position more of a symbolic role

00:03:46.740 and to make the deputy prime minister position the person who actually does the work this is very

00:03:52.760 bizarre it'll be interesting to see how this plays out in the months and perhaps years depending on how

00:03:58.160 long ahead this government goes but I gotta say those people who complain about white male privilege and

00:04:03.540 these young guys from these these elite backgrounds who feel like they can just get away with

00:04:09.160 everything and make other people do work for them I'm usually not crazy about you know all of those

00:04:13.460 accusations but I don't know this time I think they might be on to something

Juno News - December 18, 2019

Justin Trudeau is no longer running the country

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