Juno News - January 01, 2019


Justin Trudeau is using 2015's talking points


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

149.26027

Word Count

454

Sentence Count

30


Summary

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Justin Trudeau has been using the term "Stephen Harper" as a slur against the Conservative Party of Canada and its current leader, Andrew Scheer. Andrew Lutton argues that Justin Trudeau is stuck in the past and doesn't know how to live in the present.

Transcript

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00:00:00.040 It's been more than three years since the 2015 federal election and Justin Trudeau still hasn't realized that Stephen Harper is not his opponent anymore.
00:00:09.440 You know, the Liberals sent out yet another fundraising email in which they draw a line between Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Stephen Harper.
00:00:18.900 This is what they do all the time.
00:00:20.820 Justin Trudeau is speaking in a year-end interview with the Canadian press about how Andrew Scheer is just an extension of Stephen Harper.
00:00:27.580 He's mentioned it countless times in the last three and a half years, even when the Conservatives didn't have a leader.
00:00:33.580 He was calling it the Harper-era Conservatives in full force.
00:00:38.060 This is what the Liberals view as an insult, to compare the Conservative Party of Canada in its current iteration to Stephen Harper.
00:00:45.080 And let's face it, Stephen Harper was very decisively defeated in the 2015 election.
00:00:51.060 But there were a lot of factors that went into that.
00:00:53.420 Number one, Canadians in general get fatigued when they've had the same government and power for a long period of time.
00:00:59.900 History has been and will continue to be very kind to Stephen Harper.
00:01:04.040 And this is what Justin Trudeau doesn't realize.
00:01:06.460 Look at how many people have started to heed the warnings that Stephen Harper gave about dangerous foreign policy.
00:01:14.260 About immigration.
00:01:16.060 About national security issues.
00:01:18.600 About Justin Trudeau's refusal to balance the budget.
00:01:21.820 Stephen Harper made a number of predictions as Prime Minister and even as a candidate in the last election.
00:01:29.660 And pretty much all of them have come to pass.
00:01:32.420 So if Justin Trudeau wants to use the term Stephen Harper as a slur, I think it's going to backfire on him.
00:01:38.300 But it's interesting that he refuses to live in the present.
00:01:41.640 He's got a new Conservative Party with a new leader with, quite frankly, a renewed approach in dealing with the issues that matter to Canadians.
00:01:50.620 And Trudeau is stuck in the past.
00:01:53.180 And this is all the while he's saying that he wants to run a campaign that's focused not on smearing or slurring,
00:01:59.860 but a campaign that's focused on positive ideas.
00:02:02.520 Well, if you're focused on ideas, why are you not only name-calling,
00:02:06.000 but name-calling in a way that invokes someone who isn't even a candidate-seeking political office?
00:02:12.060 Let's just face it here.
00:02:13.320 Justin Trudeau doesn't have the ideas to run a campaign on ideas.
00:02:16.680 He doesn't have anything, really.
00:02:18.500 So all he's doing is going on the notes that were given to him three and a half years ago.
00:02:22.360 Well, I don't think they'll work this time around, Justin.
00:02:25.240 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:02:32.520 Thank you.