Juno News - July 03, 2018


The CBC knew about Trudeau's groping allegations (the Kokanee Handshake) but decided to stay quiet!

Hosted by
Andrew Lawton
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

175.98

Word count

481

Sentence count

22

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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Justin Trudeau doesn't remember what happened at the Kokanee music festival in the early 2000s, but that doesn't stop the media from covering it. And the media is actually running interference for the Prime Minister, Andrew Lawton argues.

Transcript

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00:00:00.720 It's official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no idea that anything bad happened when
00:00:05.840 he was at that Kokanee Music Festival in Creston, British Columbia almost two decades ago,
00:00:10.800 or the Kokanee Handshakers we'll call it, when Justin Trudeau allegedly groped a reporter
00:00:15.680 because by his own admission he didn't know she was writing for a national newspaper.
00:00:20.800 But Justin Trudeau doesn't remember the Kokanee Handshake. He doesn't remember doing anything
00:00:24.480 other than just having a great old time celebrating some Canadian music at that event.
00:00:29.280 Okay, I don't think that the allegations against Justin Trudeau are the worst allegations in the world.
00:00:34.640 In fact without details we don't know exactly what happened. Just that a reporter felt very
00:00:39.840 uncomfortable by the advances that Justin Trudeau before entering politics made.
00:00:44.800 But we are in a new age right now and in fact the Liberal Party led by Justin Trudeau has stoked
00:00:50.720 the very concerns that are now being ignored by the Prime Minister's office. That it's about how a victim
00:00:57.680 or purported victim feels. And for Justin Trudeau the guy that posits himself as the king of Canadian
00:01:04.320 feminists you know because it's 2015 or 2019 or whatever the heck it is now. The guy who is really 1.00
00:01:10.240 sinking because of the hypocrisy of this double standard more than anything else. But there's a
00:01:15.040 bigger problem right now which is that the media is actually running interference for Justin Trudeau.
00:01:20.560 We found out this week in a very quiet line in the middle of a CBC story that CBC was made aware of
00:01:26.560 the allegations earlier this year, actually interviewed the woman in the story who has not
00:01:31.760 been named publicly because she's moved on with her life, and CBC decided to sit on the story.
00:01:38.160 So the state broadcaster which gets its money from the federal government, from Justin Trudeau's
00:01:42.880 Liberal government and their budgets, decided that this was not newsworthy. Only now that everyone's talking
00:01:48.080 about it did CBC decide it was time to publish the information that it had. But now all of a sudden
00:01:54.240 we have Justin Trudeau deciding which allegations of misconduct matter, namely the ones that don't
00:01:59.040 matter or the ones that involve him. And we've got the state broadcaster in Canada agreeing with that
00:02:04.480 assertion that when the Prime Minister of Canada is the victim of an accusation that he would spare no
00:02:11.840 time and effort in levelling against members of other parties. It's not newsworthy. Canadians are
00:02:19.120 going to be the judges of whether or not this allegation is true or not, or whether or not the
00:02:24.080 allegation itself is damning. But it's not CBC's job to tell Canadians or to not tell Canadians based on
00:02:32.080 what they feel about it. If it was a story then it's a story now and vice versa. For the True North Initiative,
00:02:38.880 I'm Andrew Lawton.