Juno News - August 05, 2020


Politicians still don't trust Canadians

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Justin Trudeau Francois Legault Theresa Tam Mario Dion Doug Ford
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3 minutes

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184.6

Word count

621

Sentence count

42

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1

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In this episode, I talk about how politicians are not doing enough to help us get out of the Pandemic and into recovery mode, and how we need to rally around Team Canada to get things moving again. I also talk about the Trudeau Conflict of Interest Act and how it needs to be implemented.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 It's great news that Canada is stepping forward from the lockdown, moving into some form of
00:00:10.760 economic recovery. We're getting back to work. We're getting back to our hobbies and pastimes.
00:00:15.760 Kids are going to be getting back to school, by and large, in September in provinces all
00:00:20.600 across the country. And that's great news. But there's still a lot of anxiety, still a lot of
00:00:26.080 uncertainty. And I've got to say, politicians are not helping at all. There's a lot of downer
00:00:32.040 attitude. There's a lot of not can do, but can don't out there. And there's a lot of just not
00:00:37.460 really believing in the Canadian people, that they have the ability, they have the know-how to get out 0.97
00:00:43.620 there and do what needs to be done and do it responsibly. Are we in disagreement over things
00:00:49.200 like mandatory mask laws? Sure we are. Are we in disagreement about, well, what's actually going
00:00:54.680 on with this virus? How did it get started? Who caused it? What's the role that China played?
00:00:59.520 Some of it a bit conspiracy theory, but quite frankly, I think all these questions are completely
00:01:04.860 valid because there's still a lot we don't know out there. Every day there are medical experts who
00:01:09.620 are still disagreeing on, well, is it airborne? Is it not? To what degree is it airborne? When will
00:01:14.880 we get this vaccine? Will we even get a vaccine that actually works? So there's a lot of uncertainty
00:01:20.460 out there. And look, I know the politicians should not be giving us a false sense of security,
00:01:25.380 but right now we really need to rally the country. We need Team Canada working together.
00:01:32.120 The problem is I find Justin Trudeau, Dr. Trousa Tam and others, they've been working against that.
00:01:37.300 You will remember that Justin Trudeau, he really wanted to keep us in lockdown. He was the one saying,
00:01:42.140 oh no, it's too soon. It's too soon. Months ago when you had premiers like Ontario's Doug Ford or
00:01:47.320 Francois Legault in Quebec, who were raring to go and raring to get the country back up into life,
00:01:53.100 get our cultural life, our economic life, getting things moving again. And we're still missing all
00:02:00.180 of that right now. We're not getting it from Trudeau. We're not getting it from the conservative
00:02:03.980 leadership candidates. We see that the We Scandal says 50% of Canadians would support there being an
00:02:09.460 election soon if Justin Trudeau was found guilty of conflict of interest act violations.
00:02:14.380 Bit of a hint here, he's going to be. Mario Dion will find him guilty of all this because he's
00:02:20.160 pretty much given us all of the different pieces to come to the conclusion that he has violated the
00:02:25.360 act. So we may find ourselves with an election coming pretty soon, but I think what we need is
00:02:30.380 that positive narrative, a positive voice, vision of Canada as a strong country that can do this,
00:02:36.760 a positive inclusive nationalism that talks about, yes, building products here in Canada,
00:02:42.160 bringing manufacturing back to Canada, having this strong, vibrant community where we can
00:02:48.060 actually tackle all of these pandemic goals out there. A lot of people are very frustrated about
00:02:53.440 how to move ahead into the dining experience, how to get the schools back open safely, a lot of
00:02:59.560 competing interests and demands. And I think quite frankly, they're all legitimate. I get that people
00:03:04.820 have a lot of conflicting opinions on all this that don't follow traditional lines. But what we need
00:03:10.940 right now is leadership from on top, and we are not getting that leadership to help Canada flourish
00:03:18.700 as the great nation it is as we get out of this pandemic.