Juno News - March 07, 2023


Pierre Poilievre mocks Justin Trudeau for ＂special rapporteur＂ appointment

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foreign interference in democracy
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7 minutes

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140.98

Word count

1,014

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102

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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a secret committee to protect Canadian citizens from foreign interference in our elections. The Opposition Leader of the Opposition questions why the Prime Minister won t answer a question from the House of Commons.

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00:00:00.000 Ten years ago, the dictatorship in Beijing gave the Trudeau Foundation $200,000.
00:00:06.800 They then interfered in two elections to help keep the Liberals in power.
00:00:10.480 They even helped campaign for certain Liberal candidates.
00:00:14.140 What's the solution now?
00:00:15.100 The Prime Minister proposes a secret committee that will do a secret investigation with secret outcomes.
00:00:20.720 Mr. Speaker, this committee will follow the rule of Fight Club.
00:00:23.180 First rule is no one talks about the committee.
00:00:26.320 Why is the Prime Minister trying so hard to keep everything so secret?
00:00:32.280 The Honourable Minister.
00:00:35.780 Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition knows very well that our government has taken very robust measures
00:00:42.760 to protect democratic institutions from foreign interference.
00:00:47.260 Last night, the Prime Minister announced additional measures that will reassure Canadians
00:00:52.300 not only, Mr. Speaker, that our democratic institutions are protected from foreign interference,
00:00:58.440 but those who seek to interfere with these very institutions will be held to account.
00:01:03.760 And that's something, Mr. Speaker, the previous Conservative government did absolutely nothing about.
00:01:09.760 Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:01:12.620 Well, I forgot to mention, other than the secret committee that will see secret information
00:01:17.720 and never actually publish any information, there will also be something called a rapporteur,
00:01:24.420 a fake new position that they have invented.
00:01:28.340 Rapporteur.
00:01:29.320 Does it come with a costume?
00:01:30.500 Maybe a cape or a sword?
00:01:34.960 Is the best they can come up with a fake position doing fake work?
00:01:40.460 Why is it that they're trying to cover up the truth, Mr. Speaker?
00:01:44.040 The Honourable Minister for Interparlamentary Affairs.
00:01:48.500 Mr. Speaker, we didn't need another reason to see that the Leader of the Opposition
00:01:53.140 has never taken this issue seriously.
00:01:55.960 In fact, yesterday, Mr. Speaker, he said something that was shocking.
00:02:00.580 When I pointed out to him that this has existed as a challenge to Canadian democratic institutions,
00:02:06.360 including when he served as Minister of Democratic Reform,
00:02:09.480 he said, of course, the previous Conservative government did nothing about it
00:02:13.800 because it wasn't in their partisan advantage to do anything about it.
00:02:17.940 Think about that, Mr. Speaker.
00:02:20.140 Protecting our democracy is not a partisan issue, it's a Canadian issue.
00:02:25.960 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:02:30.580 Why won't the Prime Minister stand up today and answer a question?
00:02:33.980 Why is he hiding?
00:02:35.560 Why won't he stand in his seat?
00:02:38.180 What is he hiding from Canadians that he stands behind this substandard minister?
00:02:44.520 He's been hiding this for 10 years, Mr. Speaker.
00:02:48.180 Whatever it is that he's hiding, it must be bad.
00:02:51.860 It must be really bad.
00:02:54.280 How bad is it?
00:02:55.580 Mr. Speaker, it is the height of irresponsibility when talking about national security
00:03:06.680 to talk about the fact that national security should just be set aside,
00:03:11.680 that we should just open up this as if it could be done.
00:03:17.240 Mr. Speaker, it is not something that I think is being responsible.
00:03:23.020 Responsible leadership is saying that every member of this House,
00:03:26.760 every single member of this House,
00:03:28.340 is totally and utterly committed to protecting Canadian democracy.
00:03:32.040 The assertion that anything else is true is offensive, untrue,
00:03:36.140 and playing games with national security is not appropriate.
00:03:38.940 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:03:41.800 Well, if the Prime Minister really was interested in protecting national security,
00:03:47.400 he wouldn't be hiding.
00:03:48.480 He'd stand up right now and answer the question.
00:03:51.960 Instead, he hides behind these two stooges who protect him.
00:03:56.480 I want to remind the Honourable Members two things.
00:04:15.180 One, please use parliamentary language and be judicious.
00:04:18.660 And two, we can't do indirectly what we can't do directly in the House.
00:04:22.880 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition, from the top,
00:04:25.200 I'm sure he'll use both principles in his questions.
00:04:27.900 Thank you.
00:04:29.380 Prime Minister was hiding yesterday from the House.
00:04:32.700 He's hiding today in the House.
00:04:35.020 He's hid for the last 10 years.
00:04:38.020 Once again, I want to remind the Honourable Members
00:04:40.540 that we can't do indirectly what we can't do directly.
00:04:44.600 Now, I don't want to have to move to the next question.
00:04:46.800 I'm sure the Honourable Member, from the beginning,
00:04:49.780 and he will use parliamentary judgment.
00:04:52.480 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:04:56.160 Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has been hiding this for the last 10 years.
00:05:02.420 10 years ago, he found out that the Trudeau Foundation got $200,000.
00:05:07.700 Over the last five years, he's had briefing after briefing,
00:05:11.440 warning of interference by Beijing in our elections to support him.
00:05:15.640 And now, he's hiding the truth behind a secret committee
00:05:20.560 that will not provide public information.
00:05:23.660 Whatever he's hiding, it must be bad.
00:05:26.780 It must be really bad.
00:05:29.440 How bad?
00:05:30.140 The Honourable Leader of the Government House Leader.
00:05:35.620 Mr. Speaker, the Member of Cross, the Leader of the Official Opposition,
00:05:39.260 would know well where the Prime Minister is today.
00:05:41.280 He's meeting with the President of the European Commission
00:05:43.620 to talk about national security issues.
00:05:51.740 Order.
00:05:52.840 Order.
00:05:54.440 Order.
00:05:55.300 I just want to remind me.
00:05:57.260 Order.
00:06:01.620 Order.
00:06:06.220 Resign.
00:06:09.080 Order.
00:06:09.760 Order.
00:06:10.760 Again, I want to remind the Honourable Members that there's one thing that they cannot do
00:06:16.240 is refer to either the presence or the absence of someone in the Chamber.
00:06:21.560 I will let the Honourable Government House Leader start from the top, please,
00:06:26.920 and I'm sure he'll be judicious in his words.
00:06:29.780 Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
00:06:31.160 And, of course, that question was asked, despite you saying that it was unparliamentary
00:06:35.640 several times.
00:06:36.420 I want to put it as a matter of record.
00:06:38.020 But let me say this, Mr. Speaker, and be very clear.
00:06:40.700 One of the things that we had as a long tradition in this country
00:06:43.400 was to make sure that when we were dealing with national security
00:06:46.140 that we did not use national security as a way to play partisan politics
00:06:50.540 and to grind an axe on one another. 0.99
00:06:52.860 Mr. Speaker, the reality is that this issue of foreign interference
00:06:56.100 has been a serious issue since well before this government.
00:07:01.240 It was a matter that the Honourable Member of Cross was responsible for as a minister.
00:07:07.640 They did not take action.
00:07:08.700 We have...
00:07:09.700 Honourable député de la Prairie.