Juno News - January 18, 2023


PM Trudeau launches into 5-minute tirade against Poilievre and Convoy


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5 minutes

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146.01312

Word count

846

Sentence count

54


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to a group of protesters outside of the U.S. Capitol a year after a pro-choice rally on the steps of Parliament Hill. He talks about the impact of the protests, and the lessons he's learned from them.

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00:00:00.000 A year after the convoy came to the Capitol, can you reflect on where you think the movement is
00:00:07.740 right now? I mean, there's clearly a heightened police presence here. There are protesters outside.
00:00:12.620 Do you feel the movement has grown? Do you feel it's abated? What's your read on what's happened
00:00:16.840 over the past 12 months? I don't know. I think that's a better question to ask Mr. Polyev. He
00:00:21.320 seems a lot closer to the convoy. My approach is very much on making sure that we're delivering
00:00:27.260 good jobs and good opportunities for Canadians. We know that people are worried and even frustrated
00:00:34.080 about how the world is unfolding around them. And as a politician, you have two choices.
00:00:39.260 You can either try and amplify those fears, make people even matter, reflect that anger,
00:00:44.640 that uncertainty that people are legitimately feeling because the world is changing in
00:00:49.020 unpredictable ways. Reflect that back at them without offering real solutions. Or you can
00:00:55.060 choose to buckle down and deliver on the kinds of things that are going to make people feel
00:01:00.360 confident in their own future, in their kids' future, in their community's future, in their jobs.
00:01:07.100 These are the kinds of choices you have to make as a leader. Quite frankly, when Mr. Polyev's best
00:01:13.320 solution to inflation is to buy cryptocurrency, that's not responsible leadership. If people had bought
00:01:21.540 crypto when he told them that was the best way to opt out of inflation, they would have lost half of
00:01:27.120 their life savings. That's not a solution. What we're talking about here, rolling up our sleeves,
00:01:33.420 doing the hard work, investing in good jobs on assembly lines like this one, that are building the
00:01:41.000 products that not just Canadians want, but the world wants. Doing it with cleaner energy. Doing it
00:01:48.000 in an environmentally responsible way and putting workers and communities at the center of what they
00:01:54.800 do. Listen, there are always going to be politicians out there who try to, you know, exploit legitimate
00:02:01.940 anger and concerns that people have. But that's not the way to get something built. Crossing your arms and
00:02:09.820 saying Canada is broken. It's not the way to build a better future for Canadians. Recognizing, yeah,
00:02:16.920 we're facing tough times right now. But we're going to be there for each other. We're going to deliver.
00:02:21.960 Whether it's dental care for kids. Whether it's support with the GST rebate. Whether it's childcare to
00:02:30.060 make sure that families can have the real choices to actually engage in the workforce or not. These are
00:02:36.300 things that make a huge positive difference. These are things that the Conservative Party under Polyev has stood
00:02:42.240 against. So yeah, it can pay off to drum up anger and encourage people to wave flags. But if you
00:02:53.620 actually want to deliver a better future for Canadians, you want to reassure them that there is a bright
00:02:59.760 future for them and their communities and their families, you got to roll up your sleeves and do the
00:03:05.440 work. And that's what people here know. That's what I'm here to do. About a year ago, you called
00:03:10.620 some of the protesters who came to Parliament Hill conspiracy theorists and people with tinfoil hats.
00:03:17.440 I know you met the protesters, but a lot of people feel like you call them people with tinfoil hats.
00:03:23.020 Do you regret those words now? My responsibility as a Prime Minister is stand up for people's safety,
00:03:30.500 people's well-being in this country. That's what I did during the pandemic. I took some tough decisions
00:03:37.080 to make sure that people were able to stay safe. They were able to hang on to their jobs.
00:03:45.140 They were able to make sure we're not overwhelming our healthcare systems and protecting those frontline
00:03:52.140 heroes by getting vaccinated. And at the same time as 80% of Canadians
00:03:59.180 were stepping up to do the right thing, not just for themselves, but for their neighbours.
00:04:04.380 There were people out there trying to scare people into putting their own lives at risk
00:04:12.860 and their communities at risk.
00:04:18.400 My job to keep Canadians safe involves following the science, following the best expertise of our
00:04:27.580 public health officials, of our doctors. And I won't apologize for doing that.
00:04:34.220 We kept Canadians safe through that pandemic. Canadians kept each other safe during the pandemic,
00:04:40.460 in spite of those who are mistakenly telling everyone and deliberately telling everyone
00:04:47.740 that getting a vaccine was worse than getting COVID-19. It breaks my heart to this day to know how many
00:04:58.380 families were sitting beside the loved one's bedside as they lay dying, saying,
00:05:05.500 oh my God, I just wish I hadn't listened to all those nasty YouTube videos because my father,
00:05:11.740 my brother, my brother, is dying of COVID because he thought the vaccine was more dangerous.
00:05:19.020 So, no, I will not back off on making sure that we are keeping Canadians safe. That's the job Canadians
00:05:27.100 asked me to do when they elected me prime minister, and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
00:05:30.620 Thank you.
00:05:46.700 So,