Juno News - The elites are changing the channel

00:00:00.000 well Bill Morneau resigned as finance minister and as member of parliament but it's bigger than

00:00:12.220 that it's about the show and I do use the word show intentionally because it feels like we are

00:00:17.060 watching a show as the scandal started piling up on the government to the point where the average

00:00:22.260 person who does not follow news as much as you or I might the average person started getting

00:00:26.640 uncomfortable with what was going on with Trudeau government as this started happening the channel

00:00:31.240 had to be changed so we went from the we scandal to Catherine McKenna getting death threats we went

00:00:37.320 from Leslie Lewis and the conservative leadership race to Kamala Harris we went from any number of

00:00:42.800 things to any number of other things that had nothing to do with the we scandal or with any of

00:00:46.800 the other scandals of the government because it was time to change the channel this got me thinking a

00:00:51.020 bit further about intellectuals and political elites in this country now I'm going to borrow a definition

00:00:56.120 from one of my political heroes Dr. Thomas Sowell who I often speak about and he has a good

00:01:00.640 definition for intellectuals and I'm going to lump in politicians as well because they sort of fit the

00:01:04.760 bill in this country he has a definition where he says basically that intellectuals are people whose

00:01:09.540 end product is ideas so people who do not produce anything aside from ideas these could be writers

00:01:15.300 historians academics and I'm going to add politicians because they don't actually make those policies

00:01:19.780 happen that's for bureaucrats and other government government employees or government agencies to do

00:01:24.140 they basically write the paper they put out the idea now why is this important it's important

00:01:29.080 because of this framework that you have to understand this is former ethics commissioner

00:01:34.260 Mary Dawson who basically said this about Trudeau's many many ethics violations I feel that the prime

00:01:39.900 minister's heart is in the right place said Dawson I feel he tries to do the right thing he tries to

00:01:44.160 do good and I just think these things have been oversights basically now this is what is wrong with

00:01:51.040 the intellectual establishment or as Dr. Thomas Sowell calls them the anointed they basically have the

00:01:57.440 view where their superior intellect and their insight means that they are the ones should be in charge of

00:02:02.940 what happens in society now of course because this is sort of foolish to begin with that some elite

00:02:07.760 few are going to control what happens for everyone they have to basically believe and they do believe if

00:02:12.360 you listen to their rhetoric they have to basically believe that they are on the side of good versus

00:02:16.760 evil that's why so much of the left-wing talking points tend to be that you are deficient you're

00:02:22.840 somehow morally deficient you're a nazi you're a racist you're a homophobe you're something you're

00:02:26.880 just some kind of deficient person if you don't agree or you don't view the world in the way that

00:02:31.520 the anointed understand the world and this is the heart of the issue with what's going on in Canada

00:02:36.600 as the layers of the onion started getting peeled back from this government so scandal scandal scandal

00:02:42.680 we started peeling back the layers and finding out finding out that maybe the prime minister is not

00:02:47.000 such a big feminist maybe he's not such a stand-up guy and I've met the guy he's been perfectly cordial

00:02:52.060 with me but it doesn't mean he's a good prime minister or that he's actually a stand-up guy he

00:02:56.200 just had a cordial conversation with me but perhaps it means that there's something there and that's

00:03:01.880 what the average Canadian again the people who do not follow the news as much as you or I that's what

00:03:06.340 the average Canadian is starting to see they're getting uncomfortable with what is going on in this

00:03:10.600 government and we should be uncomfortable because the presumption of insight is what actually produces

00:03:17.020 this climate where media and the people who push out these ideas the people who push out the ideas

00:03:23.120 of the elites of the intellectuals the climate is changed because it stops you from being able to

00:03:28.720 take certain actions or even discuss certain things and that is what has been happening the channel is

00:03:33.180 being changed again we went from we scandal to Catherine McKenna getting death threats and that's no small

00:03:39.000 thing I I've got a number of death threats they're scary and no one should be threatening her with

00:03:42.960 with anything but the fact is this government has a lot that it's done wrong and people have a lot of

00:03:48.880 questions and it's a lot of questions and it's perfectly legitimate to want answers to those

00:03:53.940 questions but instead all we're getting is changing the channel all we're getting is sort of obfuscation

00:03:59.060 we're getting denials and we're getting you know Bill Morneau suddenly resigning instead of talking

00:04:03.400 about the deficit instead of talking about the money that he accepted from we or feed the children as they

00:04:07.660 used to be called we're getting a lot of things besides the answers and that's what's important to Canadians

00:04:12.620 so as Canadians we have to demand answers we have to tell the political elites and the intellectuals that we

00:04:18.360 don't care about their insight we don't care about their special knowledge that they may have in a

00:04:22.520 particular field we want the truth and we want to understand what is going on in this country so we can make

00:04:27.080 the appropriate decisions because that is our right that's what we live in this is democracy we need to have the

00:04:31.960 information without being force fed some sort of propaganda and that's what I'm trying to do here

00:04:36.900 trying to look at the heart of the issue and not just force feed people with propaganda it's asking

00:04:41.440 the right questions and hopefully getting the right answers so for True North I am Sam Ashkenazi keep 0.77

00:04:46.500 asking the right questions keep commenting and let's see if we can get to the truth and what is going on

00:04:50.580 in this country thank you so much

Juno News - August 18, 2020

The elites are changing the channel

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