Juno News - March 29, 2020


Justin Trudeau is still a weak leader


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

138.83885

Word Count

1,002

Sentence Count

7


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 the fact that Justin Trudeau is a weak leader is obvious to most Canadians the
00:00:09.880 CBC's Rosie Barton excluded of course but never in the past five years of his
00:00:14.880 administration has it been more obvious than in the days since he awoke from his
00:00:18.800 slumber and finally started taking action against the coronavirus pandemic
00:00:25.240 US President Donald Trump banned flights from mainland China on January 27th the
00:00:32.480 Prime Minister only gave the same order in mid-march some six weeks after the
00:00:38.040 US president he announced he was banning international inbound travel for anyone
00:00:43.600 who was not a Canadian or had permanent resident status in Canada days later it
00:00:50.040 took another week for the Prime Minister to announce he was finally closing
00:00:55.220 Roxham Road the illegal border crossing between upstate New York and the
00:00:59.420 eastern townships in Quebec even at that it took several more days from the
00:01:05.720 announcement until the crossing was finally closed and the RCMP could stop
00:01:10.880 acting as bellhops and go back to doing their job it also seems that despite the
00:01:18.800 supposed closure of Canadian border to international visitors there are still
00:01:24.040 inbound flights from Europe and Asia daily landing at YVR in Vancouver and YYZ in
00:01:31.720 Toronto as recently as today the Prime Minister in the first week of March
00:01:37.920 appointed a coronavirus committee headed by the Minister of Health Patti Hajdu who has
00:01:45.360 an arts degree in graphic design advising the committee which lacks a single
00:01:50.800 health care professional is dr. Theresa Tam Canada's chief doctor who was Hong Kong
00:01:56.620 born in the days after President Trump shut down flights from China Tam decried
00:02:03.280 what she called quote racist acts unquote in Canada linked to the corona virus
00:02:08.860 outbreak racist Canada is home to the second or third largest Chinese population
00:02:15.160 outside of Asia depending on who is counting heads the chief public health
00:02:20.080 officer herself is Chinese born in Hong Kong how could she decry this country as
00:02:26.560 racist against Chinese when she immigrated here got her MD worked in
00:02:33.160 government as a senior bureaucrat and has sent and since June of 2017 has been the
00:02:39.760 highest-ranking medical officer in the country that doesn't sound like a racist
00:02:44.260 country to me more accurately she sounds like just another sanctimonious liberal
00:02:49.660 bureaucrat president Trump on the other hand appointed a White House coronavirus
00:02:56.980 task force headed by the vice president its members consist of dr. Anthony Tony
00:03:03.220 Fauci the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases dr.
00:03:09.040 Deborah Birx the US global AIDS coordinator dr. Jerome Adams the US surgeon
00:03:14.800 general and dr. Ben Carson the HUD secretary and a pediatric neurosurgeon and
00:03:21.160 finally dr. Robert Redfield the director of the Center of Disease Control in
00:03:25.900 Atlanta all very serious professional people in Canada well not so much but the
00:03:33.640 most glaring difference occurs daily when the president and different members of
00:03:39.580 his task force hold their daily press briefings the president usually leads the
00:03:45.580 announcements part and then takes questions from the assembled media
00:03:49.480 sometimes for well over an hour Justin Trudeau has also taken a holding daily
00:03:55.240 press briefings he is alone at the podium outside his residence at Rideau cottage he
00:04:02.740 gives a briefing in which he doesn't say much of anything really and then
00:04:07.720 repeats it all in both English and French he takes a few mostly softball
00:04:12.980 questions from a pliant media if he is asked a tougher question what tumbles out of
00:04:18.820 his mouth is nonsensical word salad and a lot of stammering and stuttering he
00:04:24.580 doesn't actually answer the question and that excuses himself and retreats back
00:04:29.420 inside to his self-imposed exile in quarantine take a look at what he said
00:04:34.760 Friday when asked if it was smart to go ahead with the planned April 1st carbon
00:04:40.640 tax increase he stammered and stuttered and the reporter finally said you didn't
00:04:46.940 answer what was essentially a yes or no question she then asked to follow up and
00:04:52.820 what came out of his mouth was literally unintelligible baffle gab about a price
00:04:59.360 on pollution that would return more money to Canadians than it took right Mullen
00:05:04.640 global news agriculture groups and others are urging your government to drop
00:05:08.720 the plan to increase the carbon tax as of April 1st is that something you're
00:05:11.720 considering um we know that it is important that we put more money in the
00:05:17.300 pockets of Canadians at this point when they're stressed our plan on pricing
00:05:23.300 collusion pollution puts more money upfront into people's pockets than they
00:05:28.760 would pay with the new price on pollution we're going to continue to focus on
00:05:33.060 putting more money in people's pockets to support them right across the country we
00:05:38.160 know that this is an important measure for for for the future and we're going to
00:05:43.880 continue to ensure that we are thinking about the future while at the same time
00:05:49.220 we ensure that people can afford to make it through this crisis in the best
00:05:55.880 possible way we continue we continue to make sure that people have more money in
00:06:05.960 their pockets because that is how we designed the price on pollution huh only
00:06:12.560 Justin Trudeau would think it's okay to raise a tax during a pandemic that has
00:06:17.720 put so many Canadians onto the unemployment rolls his government seems to
00:06:24.140 feel it needs to throw money at to bail them out but then let's squeeze some more
00:06:29.800 of it out of Canadians by doubling the carbon tax this is not a serious leader for
00:06:37.320 true north I'm Leo Knight we are encouraging all of our readers and
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00:07:07.500 specifically helping those impacted by the coronavirus thank you