Juno News - The least surprising thing just happened

00:00:00.000 While the least surprising thing has just happened to Justin Trudeau, he has been bailed out of

00:00:11.640 another major ethics scandal. Throughout David Johnston's two-month-long service as the very

00:00:17.180 official-sounding but ultimately fake title of Special Rapporteur, we haven't learned much as

00:00:22.140 Canadians when it comes to the very real threat of Chinese election interference. But one thing 0.65

00:00:26.780 we have learned is the true undying loyalty and unbreakable bond that exists between card-carrying

00:00:32.300 members of the Laurentian elite. The Canadian establishment, these bilingual Laurentians,

00:00:37.340 don't give us much these days, but they do give us lessons in loyalty. To never leave a fellow

00:00:42.220 Laurentian behind, even if it's your last act on the battlefield like it is for David Johnston. A man

00:00:47.460 who once held a truly unimpeachable legacy is now the face of what many Canadians see as a blatant

00:00:53.220 act of cover-up and corruption. If any of you are still holding out hope for accountability,

00:00:58.100 my message to you would be to prepare for a very long wait. As you will see on this show,

00:01:02.900 regardless of what team you play for or what color tie you wear, accountability does not exist anywhere

00:01:08.220 in the inner circles of the Canadian establishment. The party will always go on, and we, Canadians,

00:01:14.660 will always play the role of butlers and servants. Drop a like in the video, help us out with subscribing

00:01:19.540 to the True North YouTube channel. Stick around for the ratio of the week, and the comment question

00:01:23.480 for the episode is this. Is this the end of the China scandal, or is there still more to come?

00:01:29.500 Let me know in the comments, and let's get into it. What? Trudeau's close family friend and ski

00:01:34.300 buddy bails him out of another major ethnic scandal? Who could have possibly seen this coming?

00:01:38.780 A further public process is required, but there should not and need not be a separate formal

00:01:46.660 public inquiry. A public inquiry examining the leaked materials could not be undertaken in public,

00:01:55.460 given the sensitivity of the intelligence. So no public inquiry, and all important information

00:02:00.880 is hid behind classified top secret briefings that can only be accessed by someone who swears to not

00:02:06.220 tell the public anything of what they saw. All Canadians can do is just take the word of David

00:02:11.260 Johnston. Surely an unimpeachable man, whose credibility and character simply cannot be matched,

00:02:16.680 and his impartiality cannot be questioned, right? Many in the Liberal government are trying to make

00:02:21.940 that push, to try and tell Canadians that questioning David Johnson's impartiality is not fair,

00:02:28.140 and it's unseemly, as some are now saying. But members of the legacy media, shockingly, are doing

00:02:33.960 their jobs, and are pushing David Johnson on his very close friendship and close connection with

00:02:39.260 Justin Trudeau. Watch as David Johnson hilariously tries to distance himself from Justin Trudeau

00:02:44.240 immediately after giving Trudeau a golden get-out-of-jail-free card.

00:02:48.800 My friendship with the current Prime Minister was based only on a few skiing expeditions with my

00:02:53.420 children. He was a student at McGill where I was principal, and amongst about 20,000 students I

00:02:56.720 would see him from time to time. In that period of time, until he became a Liberal member of Parliament,

00:03:00.440 and I was Governor General, I had no meetings with Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Justin Trudeau. I had no letters

00:03:03.980 that I can recall, no telephone calls. The only occasion I recall meeting him in that period of 40

00:03:07.640 years was at the funeral of his father, which my wife and I attended. So there was no interaction with respect

00:03:11.100 to the current Prime Minister of a friendly kind, other than the respect I had for a graduate of

00:03:14.280 McGill University. And my only real contact occurred when he became elected member of Parliament and I

00:03:18.040 held the Office of Governor General. Those are the facts of the so-called friendship and esteem.

00:03:20.740 What Johnson is trying to say here is that there was a very specific period of time when Justin Trudeau

00:03:26.020 and David Johnson, close family friends, fell out of contact. And that kind of weighs on Johnson's

00:03:30.800 heart. Between the time of Pierre Trudeau's funeral and Justin Trudeau's election as an MP,

00:03:35.480 they didn't talk at all. And clearly, David Johnson remembers those times because all the other times,

00:03:40.760 they were very close friends. They shared great memories on the slopes of Mont-Tremblant,

00:03:45.120 the Johnsons and Trudeaus, a great family bond. But Johnson's tone describing the relationship

00:03:50.000 that he had with the Trudeau family a few days ago is a lot different than the tone he used back

00:03:54.700 in 2016 when giving an interview on CTV News. Back in 2016, Johnson was glowingly remembering the days

00:04:02.080 of when Pierre Trudeau would talk about the intricacies of democracy with David Johnson's children.

00:04:07.040 And the family have become good friends. And our friendship with Mr. Trudeau goes back to

00:04:13.400 children's days when our five daughters and he and his two brothers skied together at Mont-Tremblant.

00:04:18.700 Yeah, tell us a little more of that because a lot of Canadians don't realize that you, in fact,

00:04:23.080 were a very good friend of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and that your family, you knew all the Trudeau

00:04:28.540 kids when they were growing up.

00:04:29.880 I guess it shows what a small country Canada is. His three boys were the same age as our five

00:04:35.360 daughters. So we were kind of a ski party from time to time at Mont-Tremblant where we have a place

00:04:41.400 and would ski on weekends. So we got to know the children and our friendship, our relationship

00:04:46.800 was really built out of childhood exchanges. And our children had enormous respect for Mr. Trudeau,

00:04:53.040 senior. He was a lovely, a wonderful father and very good with children. He would lead them into

00:04:58.820 discussions that would be, let's come, let's talk about how many functioning democracies there are

00:05:05.240 in the world, for example. This was with teenagers. It was just great. It's interesting because as Justin

00:05:10.080 Trudeau, the Liberals and David Johnson try to downplay the close family friendship between the

00:05:15.380 Trudeaus and the Johnstons, more information is surfacing about just how close these two are.

00:05:19.820 You see, in a 2010 CBC radio interview, Justin Trudeau told the CBC that he and David Johnson

00:05:26.100 were dinner companions and shared many great conversations around the dinner table. And in

00:05:30.420 that CBC interview marking Johnson's appointment as governor general, the broadcaster in that

00:05:35.620 interview said that the Trudeau and Johnson family were very close friends and that they vacationed

00:05:40.120 together. But just to be extra careful, David Johnson went the extra mile to guarantee that his

00:05:46.420 appointment as special rapporteur was not a conflict of interest. David Johnson appointed his friend,

00:05:52.260 Frank Iacobucci to decide whether or not the appointment was the right fit for him. Frank

00:05:58.240 Iacobucci, also a member of the Laurentian elite, what a surprise, made the shocking finding that

00:06:03.660 David Johnson's appointment as special rapporteur was perfectly fine.

00:06:07.500 What I can say with respect to the allegations of an appearance of conflict of interest,

00:06:13.060 I took the trouble of seeking a legal opinion from a retired Supreme Court justice. That's

00:06:17.180 Justice Frank Iacobucci. He was very clear that there's no conflict of interest with respect to

00:06:21.660 the Trudeau obligations. So I have no doubt whatsoever that I had any conflict of interest and no doubt

00:06:27.440 at all, speaking myself, about my impartiality or my ability to bring my record such as it is for

00:06:35.740 you to judge as to whether I'm capable of carrying out a impartial and inquiry based on integrity.

00:06:42.820 Now this Frank Iacobucci character, just like David Johnston, also happens to be a member of,

00:06:48.720 wait for it, the Pierre Trudeau Foundation. Isn't that funny? But to assist David Johnson in his

00:06:54.960 very long and arduous two-month investigation into Chinese election interference, he employed a

00:07:00.200 woman named Sheila Block, a heavy-hitting Bay Street lawyer who also happens to have been 0.77

00:07:05.840 donating thousands of dollars to Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party. Now who could really question the

00:07:10.780 impartiality of this lot? Now when asked by a reporter if Justin Trudeau would hire someone else

00:07:16.000 to look into Chinese election interference, given the clear and obvious conflict of interest between

00:07:20.280 the two, well, Justin Trudeau did what he does best, attack the Conservatives, say Pierre Pauliev

00:07:25.820 is hiding behind a veil of ignorance, and saying that Conservatives are attacking Johnson's integrity

00:07:30.640 and not his report. And for once in his life, I think Justin Trudeau might be correct.

00:07:35.420 Johnson's integrity, without a doubt, is in question, however sad that may be.

00:07:39.860 First of all, they're not questioning his report. They're only questioning his integrity.

00:07:48.200 I'd suggest that opposition leaders and indeed Canadians take a look at his report and understand

00:07:54.860 the work that he's done in this. This is an eminent Canadian who has served in many capacities

00:08:01.640 over decades, was appointed Governor General by Stephen Harper, and has done extraordinary work

00:08:11.500 on an extremely serious issue. And Pierre Pauliev is choosing to sit behind a veil of ignorance instead.

00:08:19.440 He doesn't want the facts to get in the way of a good political argument or a personal attack.

00:08:27.140 But if the Conservatives were just attacking the report, and not Johnson's clear conflict of

00:08:31.980 interest, they would still have tons of ammunition. Let's look at this report together, shall we?

00:08:36.100 In the report, Johnson doesn't mention the Trudeau Foundation once, despite being a key

00:08:41.140 organization at the heart of the China scandal, despite the organization receiving hundreds of

00:08:46.300 thousands of dollars of communist-backed donations before and after Justin Trudeau became the Prime

00:08:52.500 Minister. And despite Johnson and Morris Rosenberg, the first person appointed by Trudeau

00:08:57.060 to investigate the China scandal, being members of the Trudeau Foundation. It's so obviously a cover-up

00:09:02.840 that it can't be ignored, but yet nowhere in the report does David Johnson mention the Trudeau

00:09:07.720 Foundation. However, in the report, Johnson goes to great lengths to attack the legitimacy

00:09:12.460 of legacy media reporting that broke this scandal wide open. Going against the interests of the

00:09:17.940 establishment in Canada is a big problem in his eyes. Leaking secret intelligence is unlawful and a

00:09:23.540 breach of duty by the leaker. It cannot be justified by any frustration the leaker may have with the

00:09:28.300 government's response. It is a matter of urgency that all efforts be made to identify and hold the

00:09:33.180 leakers responsible. Malice cannot be ruled out. I recognize that absent the leaks, I would not have

00:09:39.160 been appointed to undertake my work. However, that does not justify the leaks, which risk great harm to

00:09:44.600 the Canadian interest. And if you really wanted to see where David Johnson's loyalty lies, that last line

00:09:50.440 is all you need to see. That the CSIS leaker operated, in his eyes, against the interests of

00:09:55.960 the Canadian people. I would argue the complete opposite. I would say the brave CSIS leaker operated

00:10:01.700 not in the interest of the Canadian establishment, not in the interest of Justin Trudeau and the

00:10:06.120 Liberal government, but in the interest of Canadian people. To tell us, the Canadian people, at great risk

00:10:11.540 to himself, what is really going on. To not hide the truth like David Johnston and Justin Trudeau would

00:10:17.980 prefer. The argument that you're going to see a lot from Liberals on social media and from

00:10:21.980 journalists over the next few days is that David Johnston can't be seen as biased toward Justin

00:10:26.920 Trudeau because David Johnston was appointed by Stephen Harper. But like I said in the beginning,

00:10:31.340 it doesn't matter what team you play for or what color tie you wear. The Canadian establishment always

00:10:35.980 look out for one another. And Chinese election interference has been going on for a very long time,

00:10:41.160 without anybody being held to account. At least according to former CSIS intelligence officer,

00:10:46.760 Michel Junot Katsuya, who last month told members of parliament that he has evidence that every

00:10:54.260 single government from Brian Mulroney to Justin Trudeau has been compromised by the Communist Party 0.97

00:11:00.220 of China. This little communist-backed shindig has been going on for quite a while, it seems. Both 0.76

00:11:04.540 Conservatives and Liberals have been benefiting from it. Just watch this.

00:11:08.200 So today, I want to be very clear and I want to, I want to be very clear. We can prove that every

00:11:15.940 federal government from Mr. Mulroney to Mr. Trudeau have been compromised by agent of the communist

00:11:21.380 China. Every government were informed at one point or another. Every government choose to ignore

00:11:28.520 CISO's warning either by negligence, self-interest or partnership, a partisanship, sorry. Every government

00:11:36.520 were infiltrated by agent of influence acting on behalf of the Chinese government and we knew who they were.

00:11:43.320 Not only the sitting government had been compromised, but all federal political parties have been

00:11:49.080 compromised at one point or another. The inaction of the federal government, all federal governments,

00:11:54.520 were led to attacks on many municipal and provincial government. Ultimately, every government had been

00:12:01.700 part of the problem, not the solution. So David Johnson's report, he's not just covering for the

00:12:07.040 Liberals, he's covering for everyone, the entire Canadian establishment. A giant look away sign,

00:12:12.880 there's nothing to see here folks. The person who holds all the leverage here is Jagmeet Singh and just

00:12:17.560 like always, he doesn't know what to do. Now for a while, he's been doing a good job of pretending to care,

00:12:22.320 trying to tell Justin Trudeau to hold a public inquiry into election interference. Now the one

00:12:26.560 thing he could do is break his coalition with Justin Trudeau to end his supply and confidence

00:12:31.320 agreement and hold Justin Trudeau finally to account. But there's a problem. Jagmeet Singh's

00:12:36.860 golden pension doesn't kick in for another two years. And by holding Trudeau to account,

00:12:41.480 he risks jeopardizing that coveted golden pension. Watch as Singh pathetically dances around answering a

00:12:47.960 question about breaking this coalition with Trudeau over this report.

00:12:52.200 I again see the only obvious way to try to force Justin Trudeau to do something he doesn't want to

00:12:57.240 do is the confidence and supply agreement. I mean, what other tool can be as effective as that?

00:13:02.900 We'll be providing you with details, the media with details when we make those next steps. But

00:13:07.760 there's other tools and we'll be using those tools.

00:13:09.420 Okay, but like, I guess I'm hung up on all the tools in the toolbox, right? I've got a hammer,

00:13:15.460 a socket set, a wrench, a drill, a screwdriver. You know, you have the hammer that you can swing

00:13:20.680 with the confidence and supply agreement. I mean, other than a meeting with him, what is the next

00:13:23.820 thing the new Democrats are going to do to try to force the prime minister to change his path?

00:13:29.280 Well, like I said, that's not a decision we're making today around the confidence and supply

00:13:32.940 agreement. But there are other tools. And as soon as we are going to decide on which one we'll use next,

00:13:37.580 we'll let you know. But we want to make it very clear that we'll be letting the prime minister

00:13:40.760 know, I disagree with the decision. Like I've said before, it's a big party and no one wants

00:13:45.200 the music to stop. If you're on the red team, the blue team or the orange team, they've all got a

00:13:49.340 part to play and they've all got a role. But you know who doesn't? All of us, Canadians. We play the

00:13:54.600 butler and servant as they enjoy the entertainment. All right, Rachel, the weak time. The winner this

00:13:59.100 week, unsurprisingly, is Justin Trudeau. After he announced David Johnson's final report,

00:14:04.180 he got absolutely destroyed on Twitter. 3,651 replies to only 2,672 likes. The independent

00:14:13.480 special rapporteur, the right honorable David Johnston has released his first report and will

00:14:18.340 take the steps needed to implement his recommendations and will continue to take

00:14:22.220 action to strengthen and protect our democracy. And no one cares. Most corrupt leader in Canada's

00:14:27.860 history. 769 likes the time of this recording. Seems a few Canadians might be agreeing with that

00:14:33.480 statement. Imagine that. You have just proved that you can get away with anything when you appoint a

00:14:38.100 personal friend to oversee your corruption. If the government is responsible for election

00:14:42.760 oversight and that same government selected slash appointed the special rapporteur, then could you

00:14:47.440 please explain to your citizenry how there is legitimate independence to this investigation?

00:14:51.620 The explanation we get from the government is just to trust them. Trust us. We're from the

00:14:55.220 government. We're definitely not lying to you. Yeah, okay, sure. All right, everyone, that's going to do it

00:14:59.280 for us this week on the show. Reminder to let me know in the comment section your answer to the

00:15:02.380 comment question. Is this the end of the China scandal? All right, my name is Harrison Faulkner

00:15:06.880 and this is Ratio.

Juno News - May 25, 2023

The least surprising thing just happened

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