Juno News - September 28, 2019


No Trudeau love at climate march


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4 minutes

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155.77014

Word count

656

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38

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Environment Minister Elizabeth May accuses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of being a climate criminal for his decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Andrew Lutton reports from the climate march in Montreal where Elizabeth May and Greta Thunberg were the main speakers.

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00:00:00.000 I'm in downtown Montreal along the march route for the climate strike, the climate march.
00:00:15.500 Hundreds of thousands of people walking these streets saying that we need action on the climate and we need action now.
00:00:22.020 The keynote speaker, of course, is teenage activist Greta Thunberg.
00:00:25.860 Justin Trudeau is in the march, as is Elizabeth May.
00:00:28.260 And what's fascinating is that despite how the Liberals have made such a profoundly fierce defence of this issue,
00:00:36.260 and they've said they're the ones looking out for the climate and other parties aren't,
00:00:39.460 what's fascinating about this is that Justin Trudeau has been hit from the environmentalists today
00:00:44.880 and from Greta Thunberg herself saying that he's not doing enough.
00:00:49.420 He had a private meeting in his capacity as Prime Minister, not about Liberal leadership or about the election.
00:00:55.660 And they sat down for about 15 minutes, and after the meeting, Greta Thunberg said he's not doing enough.
00:01:01.400 And what does Justin Trudeau say? Well, he agreed with her.
00:01:04.540 And then Justin Trudeau was earlier in the day speaking to reporters before he joined the march,
00:01:09.660 and this is what happened.
00:01:10.860 Climate criminal, we are going to miss our parents' accords.
00:01:15.540 Climate leaders, don't build pipelines. 0.99
00:01:19.140 Climate leaders, don't.
00:01:20.740 You are the problem.
00:01:22.620 Let them leave me to get rid of you. 0.57
00:01:25.880 You are not the solution.
00:01:27.640 You should balance those jobs.
00:01:29.200 You are climate criminal.
00:01:31.860 Climate criminal.
00:01:34.300 Climate criminal.
00:01:36.040 Climate criminal.
00:01:36.860 Yes, an environmentalist protester, one of many who's been dogging Justin Trudeau throughout the campaign,
00:01:45.760 decides to accuse him of being a climate criminal for his purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline,
00:01:52.260 at least on behalf of the Canadian population.
00:01:55.600 Now, what's interesting here is that the radicalists in the environmentalist movement
00:02:00.180 are actually starting to become a lot more commonplace within it,
00:02:03.420 where this event is full of people that, despite Justin Trudeau being the guy that said today
00:02:07.600 he's going to plant two billion trees,
00:02:09.400 these are people here that are saying he's not doing enough.
00:02:11.680 We need to do more.
00:02:12.940 And regardless of whether you agree with that,
00:02:15.740 regardless of whether you think the government needs to be doing more,
00:02:18.460 it is fascinating that Justin Trudeau has tried to present himself as being the environmental guy,
00:02:23.220 the guy that's going to get it done,
00:02:24.720 yet he's being outflanked time and time again.
00:02:27.660 When I caught up with the campaign earlier in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well,
00:02:31.760 anti-pipeline protesters protesting Justin Trudeau from the left,
00:02:35.980 from the left side of his party,
00:02:37.520 and this is going to continue to happen.
00:02:39.480 Now, whether it's going to have any significant impact at the polls stands to be seen,
00:02:43.540 but we know the NDP is trying to posit itself as being the non-sellout environmental party.
00:02:48.980 In fact, Jagmeet Singh earlier was asked at a town hall in Burnaby
00:02:52.380 why he should get someone's vote instead of the Greens if they care about the environment.
00:02:56.760 And he said, well, you know, the Greens are great,
00:02:59.780 and he agrees with them on a lot of things, but the NDP is the full package.
00:03:03.020 He actually talked about how the NDP is unequivocally pro-choice,
00:03:06.320 and the Greens aren't, and said, and we've got the environmental stuff on top of that.
00:03:10.460 And the NDP sent out a press release earlier this week,
00:03:12.840 which just had a few simple words in it.
00:03:14.820 It said, you bought a pipeline directed at Justin Trudeau.
00:03:19.200 So the NDP is very much taking the environmentalist position on this,
00:03:23.400 and what's interesting is that Jagmeet Singh isn't even at the Montreal Climate March.
00:03:27.820 He is marching out of province in a different event.
00:03:31.000 And, of course, Andrew Scheer, the only leader not partaking in the festivities today,
00:03:35.260 as has been pointed out by the left-wing party leaders.
00:03:38.040 That's what we've got today.
00:03:39.260 Thanks very much for tuning in.
00:03:40.520 From Montreal, for True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:03:42.700 Thank you.