Juno News - March 18, 2024


Justin Trudeau WANTS TO QUIT his job EVERY DAY？

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personal sacrifices thinking about quitting job
Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
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Justin Trudeau Pierre Poilievre Katie Telford Rad Ken
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Justin Trudeau said that he thinks about quitting his job every single day and that he finds the job to be "super boring." Now, there's a new controversy circulating over the French to English translation of his words, but what he actually said in French is "it's super boring."

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00:00:00.000 Well, Justin Trudeau gave a truly shocking interview to Radio Canada, CBC's French division
00:00:11.140 last week, in which he said that he thinks about quitting his job every single day. He also said
00:00:15.780 that he finds the job to be super boring as well, sending his office into full-on damage control.
00:00:21.560 Now, there's a new controversy circulating over the French to English translation of his words,
00:00:25.900 but what he actually said in French is that it is super boring. Now, the Prime Minister's office
00:00:31.420 is now accusing the BBC over a mistranslation of his words, saying that what he meant to say was
00:00:36.300 that it's super tough, but you wouldn't know that if you didn't know Quebec slang. But none of that
00:00:41.020 is what Canadians should be focusing on. The part of the interview that matters the most is the fact
00:00:45.920 that he thinks about quitting his job every single day. Now, for once, Trudeau finds himself standing
00:00:50.500 with the majority of Canadians. Seventy percent of Canadians actually agree with him. They want him
00:00:54.920 to resign. Now, he later went on to say that he won't quit because the fight is too important.
00:00:59.760 But then why say it in the first place? Besides anything else, it shows a profound lack of judgment,
00:01:04.660 even by Trudeau's standards. And furthermore, it shows a fundamental lack of respect for the
00:01:09.260 institution and the office of the Prime Minister. The role is certainly not boring. And if you find
00:01:14.760 it to be too difficult, well, then it's time to go. Now, before we get into it, drop a like on the
00:01:20.100 video, help us out by subscribing to the TrueNorth YouTube channel. And the common question for the
00:01:24.040 episode is this. Why do you think Trudeau said that he thinks about quitting every day? Let me know
00:01:30.560 your answer in the comments below and let's get into it. Well, it was CBC Radio Canada who got the
00:01:35.280 interview first, but it was BBC World News who picked up the English translation and published
00:01:40.380 this bombshell into the Canadian news cycle. Well, it all started on Friday with this tweet from the BBC.
00:01:46.380 Canada's Justin Trudeau says he thinks daily about leaving crazy job. Now, there's no mistranslation
00:01:51.940 with that headline because that is exactly what CBC Radio Canada themselves published on their
00:01:57.860 website. I think about quitting every day, he says. It's a crazy job I'm doing, making the personal
00:02:03.220 sacrifices. Oh, the personal sacrifices. Canadians feel so bad for you, I'm sure. Now, do some of
00:02:09.580 those personal sacrifices happen to include the decision of whether to keep your lights on or put
00:02:13.840 food on the table, as many Canadians are forced to do? Not being able to fill up your car to travel to
00:02:18.520 see your family? Probably not, right? He's getting a pay raise in a few weeks anyway. Maybe his personal
00:02:23.220 sacrifices are more like the ones Chrystia Freeland had to take, like cutting back on Disney+. It's only
00:02:28.940 $13.99 a month that we're saving, but every little bit helps. He's certainly not sacrificing vacation
00:02:35.540 time, that's for sure. And of course, Pierre Paulyev, the man who has a 99% chance of winning the most
00:02:41.240 amount of seats in the next election, wasted no time before attacking Trudeau over these absurd comments.
00:02:46.660 Canadians are not the only ones suffering. Justin Trudeau has it very tough. Did you hear about
00:02:53.500 this? He's a little bit bored. Did you hear about this? I'm credible, this quote. I got to read these
00:03:00.780 quotes here for today. He said this in French in an interview with Rad Ken. He said, I think about
00:03:06.420 quitting every day. Isn't that funny? We think about firing him every day. Of course, the online reaction
00:03:13.620 was exactly what you'd have expected to be, seeing as how so many Canadians agree with him on this.
00:03:18.120 We think about him leaving hourly. It's super boring at times. Please, feel free to put the
00:03:23.820 country first and go entertain yourself. Imagine being 20 points behind in the polls and saying
00:03:29.500 your job as Prime Minister is super boring at times. Are you even trying? If you think about leaving
00:03:35.400 your job every day, you probably should. Probably some wise advice. Can't be too good on the mental
00:03:40.680 state if you're constantly dreaming about, I don't know, surfing in Tofino or just getting away from
00:03:45.460 the tough, tough life as Prime Minister. Which I don't doubt is difficult. That's the whole point.
00:03:51.360 It is supposed to be difficult. It's probably supposed to be the most difficult job in the
00:03:54.980 country. But if you're not up for it anymore, you really shouldn't be doing the job anymore.
00:03:59.400 First of all, our country is in no position to have a Prime Minister who thinks about quitting every
00:04:03.860 day. I never want to leave this bed. Certain thoughts you should just kind of keep to yourself,
00:04:09.140 I think. Maybe this is an effort to try to appear more human, to appear more like the
00:04:13.140 rest of us. But the Prime Minister isn't actually supposed to appear like the rest of us. The
00:04:17.940 Prime Minister's job is to lead our country and figure out how to lead our country better
00:04:23.240 every single day. Not thinking about quitting every day, but making the country better each
00:04:28.760 day. How do you even come back from saying you think about quitting every day at this point?
00:04:33.520 We've heard rumblings that the Liberals are trying to get Trudeau out of office, but at this
00:04:37.320 point, the sharks are circling around Justin Trudeau. Now here's where this whole French to 0.74
00:04:41.900 English controversy comes in. The original BBC article published on March 15th says this,
00:04:48.400 of course, it's super tough. It's super boring at times. That's just unacceptable. I'm sorry,
00:04:54.780 you can't be saying that. You really can't. When Canadians are struggling like they are right now,
00:04:59.400 living in tents, lining up at food banks, in poverty, you're not in a position to find the job
00:05:04.920 boring. At no point should the job be boring. Every single minute of the day should be spent
00:05:09.520 on trying to figure out how to fix the problems that you have caused. Well, the Prime Minister's
00:05:14.580 office got their hands on this article and went into full-on damage control. They demanded that
00:05:19.560 the BBC issue a correction saying that Trudeau never said it was boring. He said it was very
00:05:24.660 challenging. The BBC just didn't understand that there's actually a Quebec context they were missing.
00:05:29.940 So we have Google Translate here just to show you that the BBC really can't be accused of
00:05:34.720 not translating his words directly. The French words that Trudeau used in the interview were
00:05:40.100 c'est super plate des fois. You can judge my French in the comments below if you wish.
00:05:45.820 This is what Google says. It is super boring sometimes. And of course, we have the usual PMO
00:05:52.280 apologists on Twitter telling us that actually in the right context, c'est super plate means
00:05:59.540 it's super challenging. It's super tough. Chantal Hébert says, in this context,
00:06:05.220 c'est super plate does not translate to boring. The inference is that being Prime Minister is a
00:06:10.340 tough job. You got another reporter basically saying the exact same thing. This is not the
00:06:15.500 correct translation in this case. In this context, he means that it's not easy or a tough period for
00:06:20.640 him. Trudeau has used similar language in previous French interviews and never has once hinted that he
00:06:25.640 is bored at work. Which of course was shared by Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford,
00:06:32.000 writing, paging those who are looking to improve their French. Saying that the BBC got the translation
00:06:37.840 wrong when the words directly translate to it is super boring is such obvious spin that it's almost,
00:06:44.500 it's almost sad. This one was invented by a writer. It's false. It never happened. Part of me almost
00:06:50.580 feels bad for Justin Trudeau's communications team at this point, seeing as how they had to work late
00:06:55.440 into the night on a Friday and probably all weekend trying to clean up the mess that their leader made.
00:07:00.440 Yeah, sure. Justin Trudeau was taken out of context, even though his words were directly
00:07:05.460 translated onto a page. Good luck trying to spin this one. I don't think Canadians are going to believe 0.96
00:07:09.920 you. And either way, Justin Trudeau has now finally found himself standing with the majority of
00:07:14.780 Canadians. It's time to go! But if Trudeau's communications team do find their jobs to be
00:07:21.740 boring, just like their boss does, well they don't have to worry because I don't imagine they'll have
00:07:25.680 a job too much longer. If it was intentional, and this really was an effort by Trudeau to appear more
00:07:30.880 reasonable and human to the Canadian people, well this is probably the worst communication strategy
00:07:36.020 ever deployed. When you're down by 20 points in popular vote projections, and 70% of Canadians want you
00:07:41.800 to resign, and then you tell the world that actually you think about quitting every day,
00:07:46.840 well, there's no coming back. But hey, look at this, I just found a theater teacher job posting
00:07:52.220 in Victoria, BC, part-time of course, but I think maybe this would be a little less challenging for
00:07:56.980 Trudeau, and maybe a little less boring. Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the
00:08:01.740 show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.
00:08:11.800 I'll see you next time.
00:08:13.800 Bye.
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00:08:15.800 Bye.
00:08:16.740 Bye.
00:08:17.800 Bye.
00:08:19.800 Bye.
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