Juno News - September 24, 2020


＂The Justin Trudeau Show＂ was a total dud

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Justin Trudeau Jagmeet Singh Theresa Tam
LIVE Coverage of the Speech from the Throne Canadians don't want another lockdown

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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

180.89

Word count

732

Sentence count

48


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What on earth is Justin Trudeau planning? What is he thinking? What on earth are we supposed to be getting out of this mess? These are the questions that came to mind after a day spent watching the Trudeau Throne Speech, and then watching the bizarre debacle that was the Prime Minister's address to the nation.

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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.