Juno News - January 19, 2023This is BAD NEWS for Justin Trudeau
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Justin Trudeau's poll numbers are plummeting fast, and over 80% of Canadians now think we're in a recession. Is this the beginning of the end for Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada, or is the drama teacher pulling one more act on us?
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Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Well I think it's pretty safe to say
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that things are not going so well for Justin Trudeau these days and when I say not going so
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well what I really mean is that things are going horribly wrong for the Prime Minister. With poll
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numbers plummeting and moving in the wrong direction with the Canadian economy in the gutter
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now over 80% of Canadians now think we're in a recession and despite the best efforts from
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Canada's liberal legacy media journalists Justin Trudeau's stenographers to try and paint his
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opposition the Conservative Party and Pierre Polyev as dangerous far-right populists well none of it
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is working. Just take a look at the latest five minute tirade he delivered on Tuesday. Guys I'm
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really starting to think it's getting to him. The question with all of this is is this the beginning
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of the end for Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada or is the drama teacher pulling one more
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act on us? Now drop a like in the video help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel
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and the comment question for the episode is this. Do you believe in mainstream media polling anymore?
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Let me know in the comments stick around for the Ratio of the Week award and let's get into it.
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Alright so you guys have to see this clip if you haven't already. This happened on Tuesday afternoon
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when Justin Trudeau was touring a Windsor car plant. A journalist asked him what the status of
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the Freedom Convoy movement was a year after the Freedom Convoy protest and Justin Trudeau launches
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into an unhinged five minute rant against Pierre Polyev, Freedom Convoy supporters, basically anyone
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who has opposed him over the past three years. And now it's five minutes so to spare you we've clipped
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just the very best parts. Watch this. Do you feel the movement has grown? Do you feel it's abated?
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What's your read on what's happened over the past 12 months? I don't know I think that's a better
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question to ask Mr. Polyev. He seems a lot closer to the convoy. My approach is very much on making
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sure that we're delivering good jobs and good opportunities for Canadians. We know that people
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are worried and even frustrated about how the world is unfolding around them. And as a politician you have
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two choices. You can either try and amplify those fears, make people even matter, reflect that anger,
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that uncertainty that people are legitimately feeling because the world is changing in unpredictable
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ways, reflect that back at them without offering real solutions. Or you can choose to buckle down
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and deliver on the kinds of things that are going to make people feel confident in their own future,
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in their kids' future, in their community's future, in their jobs. Listen, there are always going to be
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politicians out there who try to exploit legitimate anger and concerns that people have. But that's
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not the way to get something built. Crossing your arms and saying Canada is broken. It's not the way to
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build a better future for Canadians. Recognizing, yeah, we're facing tough times right now. So yeah,
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it can pay off to drum up anger and encourage people to wave flags.
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Oh man, there's a ton to unpack in that clip, right? Let's start at the very top. Justin Trudeau
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says that politicians shouldn't be using fear to advance their political message. Come on,
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that's the pot calling the kettle blackface there. Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' entire
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2021 federal election strategy was built on divisiveness. It was designed to pit the vaccinated
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against the unvaccinated, telling Canadians where and how they could travel in their own country,
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telling unvaccinated Canadians that they couldn't sit beside a vaccinated person
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and put them at risk. Oh, that's definitely not fear though. It's only fear when your opposition
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does it. Clever. Oh, and then he says opposition leaders can't cross their arms and say Canada is
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broken. They have to actually solve the problems. Well, I'm not sure Justin Trudeau gets this, but
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what does he exactly think the opposition leader is going to do? Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh
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sitting up there at the helm? It's not like Pierre Polyev can just go out there and start writing
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legislation. It's you guys who have caused the problem here. I think what he's really saying is he
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doesn't want the opposition leader to better articulate the problems that Canadians are
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facing right now. And then the journalist asks another reasonable question, which is,
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do you regret calling freedom convoy supporters unacceptable view holding tinfoil hat wearing
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conspiracy theorists? And of course, Justin Trudeau doesn't regret that at all. Why would he? And then
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he says that as prime minister, he has to make tough decisions. He has to make the really tough calls,
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but his decisions resulted in people being able to keep their jobs and keep their livelihoods. Yeah,
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of course, except for, you know, the tens of thousands of Canadians who didn't keep their jobs
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because of mandates, the tens of thousands of Canadians who lost their ability to keep their
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livelihood. Other than those people, of course, everything was just fine. Do you regret those
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words now? My responsibility as a prime minister is stand up for people's safety, people's well-being
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in this country. That's what I did during the pandemic. I took some tough decisions to make sure
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that people were able to stay safe. They were able to hang on to their jobs. They were able to make
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sure we're not overwhelming our healthcare systems and protecting those frontline heroes by getting
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vaccinated. And at the same time as 80% of Canadians were stepping up to do the right thing, not just for
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themselves, but for their neighbors. There were people out there trying to scare people into
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putting their own lives at risk and their communities at risk. You can see it in that clip,
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right? Completely different tone, completely different attitude at the mic. Trudeau must have
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seen this polling data from Nanos Research. Now, Nanos Research, keep in mind, is by no means a
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conservative pollster. He's by no means a Pierre Polyev supporter. In fact, quite the opposite, I would guess.
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But take a look at this. In Ontario alone, the Conservatives have surged away from the Liberals.
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The Conservatives are pulling away. The Liberals are down, the NDP are down, and also the PPC are
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getting beat by the Green Party. By Elizabeth May's Green Party, no less. Come on guys, figure that out.
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But the picture is no better for Justin Trudeau federally. Look at the way CTV, CTV News, have written
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about these latest polling numbers. The Conservative lead, which has been creeping up steadily since December,
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is now outside the margin of error. And with the NDP increasing their share of the ballot,
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the Liberals are having their support chipped away at both sides. In an interview on CTV News'
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Trendline podcast, Nanos Research founder Nick Nanos called the numbers, quote,
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very grim for the Liberals. This is the worst way for the Liberals to start off their year,
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because they're basically back on their heels. And it looks like a significant number of Canadians
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are looking at the Conservatives. Oh no, Canadians are looking at the Conservatives,
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that's terrible news, terrible news. Oh really, really tough there, isn't it? And it's not just
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Nanos Research that are putting up these numbers. Take a look, they're all showing Conservatives well
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in the lead against the Liberals. Nanos has the Conservatives up eight points. Abacus has the
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Conservatives up four points. Main Street has the Conservatives up four points. And Legge has the
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Conservatives up three points. That is to start 2023. Just last year, at the exact same time,
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this is what it looked like. Nanos had the Conservatives just up one point. Main Street
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had the Conservatives and the Liberals tied. Abacus had Liberals up two points. And Legge had the
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Liberals up three points. Now, Justin Trudeau's five-minute unhinged tirade, of course, went viral
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on Twitter. Take a look at some of the replies. He projects a lot. Everything he accuses Paul Yev of
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doing, he has been doing himself. Like exploiting fear for political gain? Like dividing the
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population to advance your own political interests? Oh wait, Trudeau's never done that. He's just a
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member of a small fringe minority now. Nothing says beating a dead horse like employing excessive
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hand gesturing. Yes, a usual telltale sign, but like I said before, Justin Trudeau is the actor. It's
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actor first, politician second. So we have to understand that everything is well-calculated.
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Everything is a well-thought-out, well-choreographed move to potentially deceive Canadians into thinking
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maybe he's down and out. Now, polls can tell us a lot about public opinion, but as you're all well
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aware, polls are oftentimes quite wrong. But as Stephen Harper famously said, the only poll that
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matters is the one on election day. But there is, however, one tried and true method of getting a
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real understanding of how Canadians think about you. That is, of course, going outside and talking to
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them face-to-face. But for Justin Trudeau, that isn't really possible because everywhere he goes,
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he gets brutally heckled. And on Tuesday night, this is how Justin Trudeau's motorcade was met on his
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way to his $1,000 a plate fundraiser meet-and-greet dinner with Justin event.
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Ratio of the week time, let's get into it. All right, the winner this week for the ratio of the
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week prize is CBC British Columbia for this stupid, stupid video they posted on Twitter.
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This is the CBC president, Catherine Tate, who, by the way, makes way too much money,
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as you could have guessed, and doesn't even live in Canada. She is now going on a cross-country
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PR tour to try and explain to Canadians why the CBC is so important. And in this video,
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she talks about things such as the CBC's high standard of journalism, saying the CBC has the
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highest standard of journalism in the country. Do we really believe that the CBC's productions
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of Talking Tomatoes telling us about systemic racism, or the CBC talking about the first non-binary
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pansexual South Asian Muslim comedian really is the highest standard of entertainment in this country?
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Un-freaking-believable. Watch what this woman has to say.
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Welcome back. We're going to do something a little bit different tonight because CBC's
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president, Catherine Tate, is kicking off a cross-country campaign to talk about the CBC
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and what the public broadcaster brings to Canada. She joins me live now. Thanks so much for being with us.
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Thank you, Anita. I want to start by talking about this narrative that many say was created by Trump,
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you know, that the media is the enemy. I myself struggle often to defend what we do here and the
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great journalism that we do. What do you say to people who say that the media is feeding lies?
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Well, first of all, I just want everybody, especially those people who work at CBC,
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to feel proud of the incredible work of truth-telling. And the gold standard of CBC Radio
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Canada, the journalistic standards and practices are really the highest in the country. So that's
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something really important to remind people of. But I also think that we need to pull back a little
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bit. It's one of the reasons I'm here in Vancouver doing an event with UBC and SFU tomorrow,
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to talk about what's going on. Why is there this decline in trust? Not just for CBC, Radio Canada,
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or the media in general, but for public institutions, for politics, for government. What is happening here?
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It takes a truly special type of person to be able to say this stuff with a straight face. Almost
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commendable. Take a look at this meme. Perfect. Before, journalists at the CBC actually did their jobs.
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And now, just like their counterparts, Global News, CTV News, our favorite at ratioed,
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who else you want to throw in there? Toronto Star, Global Mail, you all know the rest.
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Now they're just Justin Trudeau's stenographers repeating everything he says.
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In my Toronto neighborhood of Riverdale, where half the CBC's producers slash talent live,
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there was nothing but quiet muttering about what a woke disaster the network has become,
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taken over by race hustlers, Marxists, and transsexuals. I don't remember asking for articles
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about the underarm grooming habits of Toronto transsexuals. You might not have asked for that,
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but clearly, if the CBC is doing it, that is what most Canadians want. Canadians clearly want this.
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That's why we give them over a billion dollars a year. 1.2 to be exact. And here we go. Last comment.
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I respect anyone who wears their bathrobe to an interview. Well, you know what? If that's what
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it's going to take for Catherine Tate to earn the respect of Canadians, a group of people who don't
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live in the country she resides in, well, I guess that'll be what it'll be. Alright, that's going to do it
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for us this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is
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