Juno News - Liberals are no longer able to handle basics of government

00:00:00.000 The crazy lines at passport offices all across Canada is a sign that the Liberal government

00:00:05.200 is no longer able to manage the very basics of their responsibilities to Canadian citizens.

00:00:12.040 I saw the pictures, I saw the news stories, but I saw firsthand myself the other day

00:00:16.240 walking by a passport office in downtown Toronto and wow, you know, it's true. There were lineups,

00:00:21.840 people had chairs, they were waiting outside for a long time. We were hearing reports of people

00:00:26.280 camping out early in the morning. I've seen people posting pictures of it, my colleagues,

00:00:30.720 Brian Lilly, other people saying, hey, look, this is what's actually going on. And this is a problem

00:00:36.260 because here's the thing, a lot of the stuff that you see in here, say, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:00:40.920 doing, well, he doesn't really need to do them. They're not the core functions of the federal

00:00:45.600 government. You know how he flies around the world, gets COVID multiple times, parties with Gavin

00:00:50.000 Newsom. That's not really the job of the Prime Minister. I mean, flying around meeting with world

00:00:54.880 leaders is, but a lot of the stuff he's doing, it's kind of optional, it's tertiary, all the climate

00:00:59.760 parties he goes to, you don't really need to be doing them. I mean, a lot of the things that

00:01:04.540 government does that impact our daily lives are on the municipal level and the provincial level.

00:01:09.560 When it comes to federal government, one of the things that when people talk about their

00:01:13.440 interaction with the federal government is things like passports, things with getting those sorts of

00:01:18.640 permits that apply to the federal government. And when people say they've had an interaction with

00:01:22.820 their MP, it's almost always about passport-related issues or getting guests coming in from another

00:01:29.000 country, that kind of stuff. And that's what makes them have a positive or negative impression,

00:01:33.140 at least of their local MP's constituency office. That is the core relationship between the federal

00:01:39.380 citizen and the federal government, dealing with these sorts of things. If you cannot manage this,

00:01:45.360 if you cannot let someone go and renew their passport or get a new passport in a fair and orderly

00:01:51.040 and reasonable fashion, well, what are you doing? It doesn't matter how many climate parties you go

00:01:57.040 to around the world, you're clearly not doing the basic functions of running a federal government

00:02:02.240 if you just can't manage the passport offices.

Juno News - June 21, 2022