Juno News - September 24, 2020


＂The Justin Trudeau Show＂ was a total dud


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

180.88962

Word Count

732

Sentence Count

36


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What on earth is Justin Trudeau planning? What is he thinking? Those were the questions that
00:00:11.000 came to mind after a day spent watching the throne speech and then watching the bizarre debacle that
00:00:16.460 was the Prime Minister's address to the nation after the PMO somehow tricked the broadcasters
00:00:21.940 in the country to preempt their regularly scheduled programming to give him space to do,
00:00:27.000 well, I don't know what he did. We'll talk about that in just a moment. The whole thing has been a
00:00:33.600 little bit of a mess. Now, we were originally promised weeks ago that Justin Trudeau, after he
00:00:39.000 prorogued Parliament, well, he was going to bring forward this ambitious, those were the terms he
00:00:43.420 used, an ambitious throne speech for a greener Canada, a fairer Canada, more equitable Canada,
00:00:49.140 and those were all obviously left-wing buzzwords to mean more government intrusion in your lives,
00:00:54.040 more spending, more government programs, more climate change programs, and so forth. And it
00:00:58.860 was really worrisome. We had a lot of economists stand up and say, eh, eh, we're concerned about
00:01:03.520 this. We had anonymous liberal sources step forward in the press and say, watch out, even we're nervous
00:01:09.340 about what's going on. And then we heard alternating messages that came out that said, oh, no, no, no,
00:01:14.320 he's actually listening to people, he's toned it down, and this is going to focus on managing the
00:01:19.600 pandemic. That's what the throne speech will be, I guess, because liberal NPs, that's what they were
00:01:23.980 hearing from their constituents, that's what they wanted. Well, okay, fair enough. So I was open to
00:01:28.600 just seeing, you know, what is this? Whatever it is, we'll take it as it comes. And what we got in the
00:01:33.740 throne speech was really this kind of bizarre entanglement of ideas that were, many of them
00:01:41.180 were just rehashes from previous liberal promises, even from 2015. National daycare, pharmacare,
00:01:48.040 you may have strong opinions for or against that stuff. But here's the thing, it's nothing new.
00:01:53.940 So how is that ambitious? No wonder Jagmeet Singh was feeling a little burned. We thought, isn't this
00:01:58.000 what you wanted? It's kind of an NDP pledge. Well, yeah, they did the NDP pledge in 2015 and 2019.
00:02:04.680 They certainly did a lot of left-wing things, not the things, though, that Jagmeet Singh wanted. So
00:02:09.180 that happened. And then they promised to step on the province's toes doing things like bringing
00:02:13.640 long-term care facilities under the federal wing. A little odd, because most provinces are
00:02:19.180 currently doing some sort of assessment of long-term care right now, and should they revise
00:02:22.960 the oversight? So let's just wait until that is all done. And it was almost just kind of a run-of-the-mill,
00:02:30.260 center-left, typical Trudeau campaign-y thing, throne-speech-y thing. I mean, most of it could have
00:02:35.840 been done in normal times, certainly not necessarily a pandemic-focused one. So what gives? Why did he
00:02:43.360 have to prorogue Parliament for it? Dare I say that it was really just to avoid the we scandal? And
00:02:48.520 what's with saying it's going to be so ambitious and saying, no, it's going to be reined in? And then
00:02:52.160 it was nothing. It was just kind of this blasé, fizzle-away thing. Which brings us to the Justin Trudeau
00:02:59.840 show, his primetime television performance, where he steps forward and he says, oh, COVID cases are
00:03:05.980 rising, which is true. Wash your hands, wear a mask, or get the flu shot. And yeah, we have this federal
00:03:12.300 COVID-19 tracing app thing. Download that. Okay. Well, that's just things that Dr. Theresa Tam and
00:03:19.000 premiers and all these officials have already been saying. What was the value-added content? Why did
00:03:24.740 you need to preempt regularly scheduled programming for this? Oh, and then he went on a bit of a
00:03:29.460 climate change speech, and a bit of a campaign speech, and rehashing things that were in the
00:03:35.480 throne speech. So he promised that this would not be partisan, and then it was partisan. So
00:03:41.340 kind of a mess of a day here, making you think maybe Justin Trudeau does see opportunity in crisis,
00:03:48.100 wants to do something here, certainly wants the spotlight on him, wants to make some waves, but just
00:03:53.740 isn't really sure how to proceed, because they think that's what we saw on Wednesday. A whole lot of
00:04:00.320 uncertainty, a whole lot of nothing.