Juno News - Reopening the economy is not a partisan issue

00:00:00.000 countries are currently having various debates about the reopening of society when should it

00:00:10.240 be done how soon how should it be done what should the different phases look like here in canada that

00:00:15.840 conversation is already happening my take is that well we should try and proceed with baby steps

00:00:21.120 sooner than later see what we can do find out who the most vulnerable are we seem to have good data

00:00:25.760 on that already work extra hard to protect them and then find ways for everybody else to make

00:00:31.120 advances to step back into society unfortunately though this debate has become something of a

00:00:37.600 partisan debate you've got a number of premiers in canada who want this to happen jason kenny doug

00:00:43.120 ford ndp premier john horgan in bc he wants it to happen but prime minister justin trudeau isn't so

00:00:50.160 into it he said just the other day it may be a number of weeks until we can even begin to have

00:00:55.280 that conversation that's pretty much verbatim his quote hold on a second a few weeks until we can

00:01:00.400 even have the conversation that doesn't sound right why is he taking this position well i notice in

00:01:06.720 other media on television on social media it's kind of taken to be that reopening society as a

00:01:12.480 conservative thing it's a donald trump thing and of course those people who are more progressive well

00:01:17.280 they have to find ways to argue against that you know the usual thing donald trump says something he

00:01:22.080 says the sky is blue and then people who don't like him have to come up with arguments as to why

00:01:26.240 what he said is not true how the 180 perspective is in fact the correct one look you can play those

00:01:31.840 games on other policy issues however you want but the reopening of society should absolutely not be

00:01:38.320 a partisan issue i see there are some individuals out there who see that concerns about the economy they

00:01:43.600 believe that concerns about the economy are just about concerns about people's personal wealth their

00:01:48.800 stock holdings and so forth that's not what the economy is at all it is our way of life it is our

00:01:54.080 ability to to get goods to each other to feed our families to put roofs over our head that is what the

00:02:00.720 economy actually is and it's very worrisome to see this get a bit of a partisan flavor to it all and

00:02:07.120 to see that oh well people are going to come up with talking points to argue against it oh no this is

00:02:12.000 why it won't work that is why it won't work this needs to be an all hands on deck approach a non-partisan

00:02:17.600 post-partisan approach how can we work together to see that this happens the white house put out a

00:02:23.600 very interesting plan three different phases and there's things you got to do to qualify to even

00:02:28.640 get to the first phase they talk about how establishments can open but they still have to

00:02:33.040 practice physical distancing and and gyms and restaurants and so forth can't have people this

00:02:37.920 close together if they can't prove they can do that they can't open to be able to first do phase

00:02:42.800 one you have to show you have declining numbers of cases nobody more being introduced into critical

00:02:48.480 care facilities a whole bunch of different details and i encourage you to check out the white house's

00:02:53.440 plan it's an interesting one and if you don't like the particulars well we hash it out and we come up

00:02:58.080 with our own particulars for whatever province you are whatever part of canada you are in i think

00:03:02.960 there should be a can-do attitude towards reopening let's try and get this happening as soon as possible

00:03:09.120 as soon as is responsible but the partisan stuff out there uh-uh let's leave that behind

Juno News - April 19, 2020