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