Juno News - This sucks.

00:00:00.000 Welcome, everyone, to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Doesn't it just suck when you break

00:00:12.320 ethics laws? Doesn't it just suck when your government breaks the law six times in seven 0.96

00:00:16.840 years? You know, you have to face a couple of tough questions from the legacy media who

00:00:20.500 usually propagandize on your behalf. You have to field a couple of rough days from the opposition

00:00:24.620 benches before they move on to the next issue, and the Canadian people get upset before they,

00:00:28.520 too, move on to the next issue? Doesn't that just suck? It sucks. Now, I'm not speaking for all of 0.99

00:00:33.580 us regular citizens because when we break the law, we have to face the consequences. Not if you're in

00:00:38.200 the Trudeau government, however. Wouldn't it be nice to experience, just for a few days, what cabinet

00:00:42.560 ministers and Justin Trudeau's government get to experience getting to live by a whole other set of

00:00:46.420 rules than the rest of us? Well, Justin Trudeau is doing his annual end-of-year media circuit, sitting

00:00:51.020 down with CTV News, CBC News, and some no-name podcast to field some softball questions. And some

00:00:57.420 of the answers to these softball questions, although not surprising, are pretty insightful

00:01:01.640 into how he thinks as Prime Minister. Stick around also for the Ratio of the Week award, the final

00:01:06.640 Ratio of the Week award before we hand out the Ratio of the Year prize, which we will be doing on

00:01:11.440 December 30th. As always, drop a like on the video, help us out by subscribing to the TrueNearth

00:01:16.040 YouTube channel, and the comment question for the episode is this. With Christmas right around the

00:01:20.720 corner, if you could give the Prime Minister one Christmas gift, what would it be? All right, let's get

00:01:25.560 into it. Now, just take a look at how Justin Trudeau responds to this question from CTV News

00:01:30.160 about his sixth and latest ethics violation, his government's sixth ethics violation. He really

00:01:36.120 seems concerned about how Canadians view his government, doesn't he? A government that has

00:01:39.800 seen its share of ethics breaches since taking office. The last one involving Mary Ng, the trade

00:01:45.680 minister who broke ethics rules over a contract awarded to a friend. From my perspective, it sucks. 0.99

00:01:52.060 Who responds to a question about your own employees breaking the law like that, let alone the Prime 0.99

00:01:58.280 Minister? Who responds to a question like that? Oh, you know, it just sucks. I mean, they are

00:02:02.660 employees, but they're kind of more important than that, right? They're cabinet ministers. They're

00:02:06.420 federal cabinet ministers, and they've broken the law now six times. Oh, you know, it just kind of

00:02:12.540 sucks. It sucks, doesn't it, when we break the law. But it gets better than that. Just hold on. 0.99

00:02:16.820 Although it sucks when our government breaks the law, the system is clearly working. That's what

00:02:22.420 Justin Trudeau told this CTV News reporter. We have a system that has the kind of accountability

00:02:26.860 and transparency that works, and that is clear to reassure Canadians that if someone is taking

00:02:31.700 advantage of the system, either deliberately or by accident, they'll get caught and called out on it.

00:02:36.820 And that's an example of the institutions working. Can't you guys just feel the system working?

00:02:41.600 I mean, it's clearly working for them when they can enrich and stuff the pockets of their friends

00:02:45.600 at our expense while facing no consequences. Truly incredible stuff. Unbelievable to just say

00:02:51.300 that with a straight face. Now, as you can imagine, social media is just not having any of this at all.

00:02:55.920 This is from Senator Leo Husakos. It sucks. That's the best Justin Trudeau can manage. It sucks that we 0.99

00:03:01.860 keep breaking the law, but hey, what are you going to do? Just a stunning lack of seriousness or sense of

00:03:06.740 responsibility. This is from Aaron Woodrick over at the McDonnell-Laurier Institute. It sucks even more

00:03:11.380 when there are no consequences for ethics breaches. Laurie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun also got in

00:03:15.520 on this. It sucks when your Prime Minister says it sucks when members of his cabinet violate the 0.96

00:03:19.780 Federal Conflict of Interest Act when he has violated the Conflict of Interest Act more often 0.98

00:03:24.320 than anyone else in his cabinet. Conservative MP Dan Albus also got in on the action. He means it

00:03:29.680 sucks when they get caught because otherwise he does nothing about it. Fair point, but it's not like

00:03:33.640 he's about to do anything about Mary Ying now that she got caught. She apologizes. It's all fine. You just

00:03:38.340 move on after an apology, right? Whether or not they get caught is not the question here. He just doesn't care

00:03:43.300 anymore, clearly. And here's Senator Denise Batters as well. It sucks. Prime Minister Trudeau should act

00:03:49.120 like an adult, hold his minister responsible for breaking Canada's ethics law, and fire her from

00:03:53.620 cabinet. Probably a bit too much to ask for at this point, I think. And speaking on the controversial

00:03:57.600 gun grab legislation, Bill C-21, Justin Trudeau has dropped any pretense of not trying to go after

00:04:04.040 hunting rifles. He just now totally admits it like it's nothing. Like he wasn't just telling Canadians the

00:04:08.920 opposite a few months ago. He says he has to take away your hunting rifles. Oh yeah, he has to take

00:04:15.980 away your plinkster. He has to take away your Ruger number one because scary guns. A year of challenges 0.69

00:04:22.700 and divisive issues that remain unresolved, including the controversial liberal government's gun ban,

00:04:29.080 with Justin Trudeau admitting that some of those rifles, even those used legally by hunters, will be banned.

00:04:34.780 There are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them

00:04:40.080 to hunt and say, but we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list

00:04:46.520 of guns that are accepted, that are fine for hunting. It's such a weird way to talk about the

00:04:52.040 legislation too. No one is forcing him to take away hunting rifles that aren't committing any crimes.

00:04:57.520 He just wants to. He just wants to do that. But he says, oh, well, we're going to have to take away

00:05:02.120 your hunting rifles. Sorry about that Canadian who doesn't commit any crimes. Sorry about that 1.00

00:05:06.040 hunter. Sorry about that sports shooter. We're just going to have to take away your guns. I also

00:05:10.520 hope none of you were expecting the Prime Minister to have learned anything from the Freedom Convoy

00:05:14.240 protest. Just listen to how he responds to this question from CTV News. No movement, no shame. He

00:05:19.920 is sticking to his message. He's sticking to his line of small fringe minority, tinfoil hat wearing

00:05:25.600 conspiracy theorists. Absolutely shameless. A year of unprecedented events. The occupation of Ottawa 0.56

00:05:32.420 by the so-called Freedom Convoy protesting vaccine mandates with calls to overthrow the Trudeau

00:05:39.020 government. You had said at some point during those protests that the protesters were part of a fringe

00:05:45.500 who believed in conspiracy theories and wear tinfoil hats. I don't and I won't apologize for calling out

00:05:52.760 people who were harming their fellow Canadians. And lastly, Justin Trudeau sat down for a podcast

00:05:57.920 interview with his friend Terry DeMonte, former radio host based out of Montreal. Now this is the

00:06:03.220 softest interview I've ever listened to, by the way. It's really a big waste of your time. Unless

00:06:07.800 you're looking for someone to just pat Justin Trudeau on the back for about 50 minutes. They ask him about

00:06:11.960 what books he likes to read on his Costa Rica vacations and what TV shows he likes to watch when he's on

00:06:17.100 his long plane rides across the world before lecturing us all about lowering our carbon emissions. And

00:06:22.120 they're sitting around a table drinking beer. They're clearly going for that whole like you'd want

00:06:25.580 to share a beer with this guy image for Justin Trudeau in this interview. Which is funny because

00:06:29.960 he's probably the last person Canadians would want to share a beer with. But they're going for it

00:06:33.680 anyway. And listen to the question Terry asks Justin Trudeau. He asks him about the Freedom Convoy and

00:06:39.680 what his life was like during the Freedom Convoy. What was it like as a person during this crisis?

00:06:46.400 No wonder he got this interview asking questions like this.

00:06:49.340 I'm curious about you as a person. Like, you know, we all have a day at the office, right? You come home

00:06:56.320 and your wife says, how was your day? You know, and, and a lot of people bring pressures home from work

00:07:02.640 and whatever. I want to know what, where are you? Like, are you in the office and are people standing

00:07:11.100 around you giving you constant information? Like how, how do you cope during those two or three

00:07:18.360 weeks? How, it's a 24-7 gig. How do you cope with a crisis of that nature as a person?

00:07:25.580 But, but, but during those two or three weeks, yes, the convoy was going on outside

00:07:33.780 Parliament's windows. But I was busy governing Canada, right? I mean, like, like, there's still,

00:07:43.880 you know, a threat of a rail strike in this town. There's still legislation that has to pass

00:07:49.380 independently of that. There's still international summits and events that I have to attend virtually

00:07:55.020 in this case. There's still, you know, policy objectives we're having to fulfill on health

00:08:00.440 care, on things. So, yes, the convoy was a piece of all, like every day I'd get briefings

00:08:09.960 and updates on what the police was doing or wasn't doing. But we, we ended up, you're doing that

00:08:18.940 while you're doing all the regular things of government. So, first of all, what is Justin

00:08:25.720 Trudeau doing with his hand on the table there? Strange. But notice there, he says he was busy

00:08:30.740 governing the country. Oh, what a great leader. He's busy governing the country during the Freedom

00:08:34.140 Convoy protest. Interestingly, he failed to mention the fact that he fled. He fled,

00:08:39.960 Ottawa, to Harrington Lake with a very serious bout of COVID, as we all know. He was very sick

00:08:45.320 with COVID. He also forgot to mention that while he was governing Canada, as he says,

00:08:49.920 he was also caught skiing. But don't worry, guys, he was only cross-country skiing. It wasn't

00:08:54.180 downhill skiing. So, it doesn't count, right? It doesn't count. He was, he was busy, he was busy

00:08:58.200 governing the country while cross-country skiing, not downhill skiing. Big difference. Here we go.

00:09:02.180 Ratio of the Week. The final Ratio of the Week winner before we give out the Ratio of the Year prize

00:09:07.140 next Thursday. This week's winner is Chrystia Freeland for this absolutely bizarre tweet. Look 0.99

00:09:12.520 at her here, looking very normal, looking the way we all do when we get our flu shot and our booster.

00:09:17.100 Here she writes this,

00:09:18.280 My family and I got our boosters and our flu shots tonight. If you haven't already, make sure to get

00:09:23.040 yours. It's the best way we can protect each other this holiday season. Yes, this holiday season.

00:09:28.380 Very important to make sure we're not singling out Christmas during our booster shot and flu shot

00:09:33.380 promotional tweet. Take a look at this ratio. Just, just absolutely horrendous. No one wants to see

00:09:37.640 this. It's, it's almost, it's almost like rude how bad this was. Look at this. 22.7,000 replies,

00:09:44.940 only 5,414 likes. It is a, uh, like I said, I mean, that's, that's pretty ruthless stuff. We're

00:09:53.120 going to go through some quote tweets. We're going to go through some replies. Here we go. We got some

00:09:56.600 good ones here. Tell me exactly how it's the best way to protect each other when it doesn't stop

00:10:00.680 transmission. Go on, Chrystia Freeland. Answer. Oh, wait. Zuby quote tweeted this and, uh, made a

00:10:06.540 great point. Something that we'd all just love to see. Times are a changing, folks. It's heartening

00:10:11.400 to see these types of posts get ratioed now. Certainly wasn't like that 12 to 24 months ago.

00:10:16.400 The tide has turned. Jack Posobiec also got in on the action. How about no? And this person wrote,

00:10:22.400 it's so sad and scary that you won't wear a mask. Put on a mask when you get your flu shot. That's what

00:10:27.060 Justin Trudeau did. Remember when he put on his mask to get his shot? Took it off for the photo?

00:10:31.160 At least do the photo without the mask, but make sure when you're getting the shot, at least you've

00:10:35.240 got the mask on. That's really important stuff. Even I know that. Even I know to promote the shot,

00:10:40.640 you got to put the mask on. That's the whole picture. All right. That's going to do it for us

00:10:43.580 this week on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for being a great, loyal viewer

00:10:48.540 of the show. Have a great Christmas, everyone. I'll catch you on December 30th for the Ratio of the

00:10:53.520 Year Prize. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.

Juno News - December 22, 2022

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