Juno News - June 27, 2022


MPs need ＂panic buttons＂ for mean tweets

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John A. Macdonald Marco Mendicino Justin Trudeau
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

186.81

Word count

540

Sentence count

21

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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In this episode, Candice and Jon talk about how far our politics has fallen, and the panic buttons that politicians are now allowed to hold onto when they feel they are in danger, and which they can press if they feel that they're in danger.

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00:00:00.000 Why don't you tell us about these panic buttons for MPs here?
00:00:04.280 So we got news, I think it was, yeah, it was a couple days ago.
00:00:08.580 And the, what is it, the National Observer or Canadian Press, it might have been,
00:00:13.360 they wrote a story about how MPs are now receiving panic buttons,
00:00:17.760 which they're allowed to, they're supposed to hold on to and they can press
00:00:21.600 if they feel they're in danger.
00:00:23.540 Now, this is supposedly because, Candace, they're receiving mean tweets
00:00:27.360 and death threats online from anonymous users or things like that.
00:00:32.760 And, of course, this is coming from Marco Mendicino, a Canadian who I think most people
00:00:37.920 quite detest at the moment because he's been caught lying and he's been used
00:00:42.600 by Justin Trudeau to push the emergencies order and the Emergencies Act.
00:00:46.860 And so now because he's receiving lots of mean tweets and lots of comments on social media,
00:00:51.560 he has ordered a bunch of panic buttons for MPs to hold on to when they go outside.
00:00:57.360 I mean, I can't really think of anything more emasculating for a politician
00:01:02.580 who's supposed to represent the people holding a panic button whenever a constituent
00:01:07.120 might come up to them and air some grievances, Candace.
00:01:09.100 It's really, really embarrassing stuff.
00:01:11.960 And, you know, I put this out on Twitter because when I read this story,
00:01:16.260 the first thing I thought about was the fact that the honour in being a politician,
00:01:20.160 the honour in representing Canadians has completely gone.
00:01:23.540 There used to be this idea that if you were called a liar or if someone did something
00:01:28.700 dishonourable as a politician, not only would you take serious issue with it,
00:01:32.660 not only would that person be expected to resign, but as I mentioned here, in 1849,
00:01:38.120 John A. MacDonald challenged an opposition politician to a duel.
00:01:42.280 So they put their life on the line to defend their honour and to defend basically the institution
00:01:48.220 of the House of Commons.
00:01:49.820 Where has that honour gone?
00:01:50.920 Imagine being a politician now holding a panic button in the same house where politicians used
00:01:58.280 to have real honour.
00:02:00.040 They used to actually take the job seriously and they used to put their life on the line
00:02:04.180 because they believed in what they were doing.
00:02:05.760 I think this is just a symptom, Candace, of how far our politics has fallen.
00:02:10.340 And I followed that tweet up with this, you know, what year was it, 2012, 2011 or wherever,
00:02:17.360 when a terrorist stormed the House of Commons armed with a gun after killing a soldier in
00:02:24.600 broad daylight.
00:02:26.700 You didn't, and MPs had to basically shelter in place in the House of Commons because a
00:02:30.580 terrorist was on the loose inside the House of Commons.
00:02:33.260 There was not a single MP who had the, who had really the audacity to call for a panic
00:02:38.440 button, they just got on with the job, they did the job that Canadians asked them to do,
00:02:42.580 and they weren't crying and whining about mean tweets.
00:02:45.300 We've fallen so far, I can't imagine being a liberal MP and holding one of these lame
00:02:50.480 panic buttons. 0.99
00:02:51.240 Like I said on Twitter, I can't imagine being such a loser. 0.99